PhD Performance Studies Elise Robinson is working on her PhD in Theatre and Performance Studies, focusing on theatre and performance in the British women's suffrage movement. She is a native of Athens, GA, but only recently moved back home after a long exile in the north (Minnesota). In addition to her PhD work, she also directs theatre, and in her vanishing spare time can be found knitting, reading detective fiction, playing with her kitties and attending to her spouse and two daughters.