Antje Ascheid is a specialist in film history and criticism. In addition, she is interested in film and video production and screenwriting. Her academic research focuses on women and film, German Cinema and film genres. She has published numerous articles and presented papers at many national professional conferences. Her first book, Hitler's Heroines: Stardom, Womanhood and the Popular in Nazi Cinema, was published with Temple University Press in 2003. She has been professionally active in the field of documentary and independent film production in New York City. Before joining the faculty at UGA, Dr.Ascheid taught at Smith College and at SUNY New Paltz.

Dr. Auslander, whose full-time appointment is at the Georgia Institute of Technology's School of Literature, Communication and Culture, serves as an Affilate Professor in our department through a special agreement between Georgia Tech and UGA. He functions as a full-fledged member of the doctoral faculty, serving on graduate committees, participating in curriculum development and teaching one graduate course each year in the department. He has written on aesthetic and cultural performances as diverse as theatre, performance art, music, stand-up comedy, and courtroom procedures. His research interests include performance theory, the relationship of performance to media and technology, popular music, and intellectual property. He is the author of five books, including Liveness: Performance in a Mediatized Culture, and editor or co-editor of two collections. His most recent book, Performing Glam Rock: Gender and Theatricality in Popular Music, was published by the University of Michigan Press in 2006. His current book project is a handbook, Theory for Performance Studies.

Dr. Giles is a specialist in African-American Theatre, directing and acting. She is the author of articles focusing on early African-American Theatre in New York City and has delivered papers to the national educational Theatre Conference, Third World Theatre Conference, and the African-American Arts Development Forum, among others. She has several playscripts to her credit, and has directed a number of productions in New York State. A professional actress and member of Actors Equity Association, A.F.T.R.A. and S.A.G., Dr. Giles has performed a number of roles off-Broadway as well as in film, television and radio. Before coming to the University of Georgia, Dr. Giles taught at State University of New York at Albany and City College, City University of New York.

Richard Neupert is the Wheatley Professor of the Arts and a Josiah Meigs Distinguished Teaching Professor. He teaches film history and theory. His special areas of interest are French cinema, narrative theory, and animation. His books include A History of the French New Wave Cinema (Wisconsin UP, 2003, 2007) and The End: Narration and Closure in Cinema (Wayne State UP, 1995). He also translated two books from French: Aesthetics of Film (Texas UP,1997) and The French New Wave: An Artistic School (Blackwell, 2002). Professor Neupert is coordinator of UGA's Film Studies major and Film Studies minor, and on the advisory board for the Cine movie theater. Before coming to UGA, he taught at Northwestern University and Georgia Tech.

Peach Pittenger is a Franklin Postdoctoral Fellow and visiting assistant professor in the Department of Theatre and Film Studies, and an affiliated faculty member in the Women's Studies Institute at University of Georgia . She studies American theatre history, women in theatre, and popular entertainment. Professor Pittenger earned her Ph.D. in theatre history, literature, and criticism from The Ohio State University in 2005. She has published articles in the Journal of American Theatre and Drama and Theatre History Studies. She has presented papers at the American Society for Theatre Research, International Federation of Theatre Research, Association for Theatre in Higher Education, Popular Culture, American Studies, International Comparative Drama, and Mid-America Theatre conferences. Professor Pittenger is a member of American Society for Theatre Research, Association for Theatre in Higher Education, International Federation of Theatre Research, and Phi Beta Kappa. Professor Pittenger teaches a theatre history survey course for theatre and film majors, as well as women in performance, script analysis, and drama appreciation (honors) courses at UGA. She has also taught American theatre and a lecture course on theatre appreciation. Professor Pittenger earned her M.A. in theatre studies from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Her B.A. is from Smith College in theatre and English. She has earned several fellowships and grants, including the Distinguished University Fellowship at Ohio State University and a Coca-Cola Critical Difference for Women Dissertation grant.

Farley Richmond, Professor and Director of the Center for Asian Studies. Dr. Richmond teaches courses in Asian Theatre, with an emphasis in Indian drama and theatre. He also teaches courses in introduction to theatre, script analysis, and directing. His publications include: Kutiyattam: Sanskrit Theater of India, (CD-ROM University of Michigan Press), Indian Theatre: Traditions of Performance, (University of Hawaii Press), and Theatre: The Collaborative Art and Plays of Provocation, Vols. I and II (Kendall/Hunt). His articles appear in The Oxford Illustrated History of Theatre, The Cambridge Guide to World Theatre, The Cambridge Guide to Asian Theatre, as well as the Asian Theatre Journal, among others. His most recent productions were Antigone, Art, The Playboy of the Western World, and The Crucible at UGA and Oleanna at SUNY/ Stony Brook. He is a founding member of the Asian Theatre Journal for which he serves as South Asia Area Editor. He is currently on the Board and Vice President of the World Association for Vedic Studies. He has chaired the theatre departments at Michigan State University, SUNY/Stony Brook, and The University of Georgia.

David Saltz is a specialist in modern drama, performance theory, the philosophy of art, and directing. He currently serves as editor of Theatre Journal. Over the past decade, his primary research focus has been the interaction between live performance and digital media. He is Principal Investigator of Virtual Vaudeville, a large-scale research project funded by the National Science Foundation to simulate a nineteenth century vaudeville performance on the computer. He has explored the use of computer technology extensively in his own work as a director and teacher. Along those lines he established the Interactive Performance Laboratory at UGA, has directed a series of productions incorporating real-time interactive digital media, and has created interactive sculptural installations that have been exhibited nationally. He has published 18 articles in scholarly journals and books, and is coeditor (with David Krasner) of the book Staging Philosophy: Intersections between Theatre, Performance and Philosophy (University of Michigan Press, 2006). Dr. Saltz received a Sandy Beaver Special Teaching Award in 2008. He has served as Secretary of the Association for Theatre in Higher Education. Before coming to Georgia, Dr. Saltz taught at State University of New York at Stony Brook and The College of William and Mary.