Faculty Research

Christy Stanlake
Professor, English Department

A proponent of theatrical praxis, Christy Stanlake works as a scholar and practitioner in Contemporary American Theatre. She is the author of Native American Drama: A Critical Perspective (Cambridge UP, 2009), and co-author of Critical Companion to Native American and First Nations Theatre: Indigenous Spaces (Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, 2019). As a theatre director, Stanlake has applied theories of Native Theatre and performance to several shows, including the national, equity production of JudyLee Oliva’s Te Ata; and Lynn Riggs's Green Grow the Lilacs. Both plays toured to the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian in DC.

In the English Department, Stanlake teaches Rhetoric and Introduction to Literature, Dramatic Literature, Shakespeare, and Native American Literature. She has served as the Masqueraders’ Director since 2002.