
Leraldo Anzaldua
Assistant Professor, Theatre, Drama, and Contemporary Dance
Movement and Stage Combat
- lanzaldu@iu.edu
- Lee Norvelle Theatre and Drama Center, A300R

Assistant Professor, Theatre, Drama, and Contemporary Dance
Movement and Stage Combat

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Assistant Professor, Technical Direction
Head of Theatre Technology

Director, African American Dance Company
Professor of Practice, Theatre, Drama, and Contemporary Dance
Professor of Practice, African American and African Diaspora Studies

Visiting Assistant Professor, Dance

Assistant Professor, French
Research Interests
early modern french drama; theater; opera; ballet; festivals; intellectual and cultural history of the french renaissance; relationship between music and literature

Associate Professor, Contemporary Dance

Assistant Professor, Playwriting
Head of the M.F.A. Playwriting program
Research Interests
Playwriting; Dramaturgy; Interdisciplinary Performance; Theatre for Social Change; Feminist Theatre; Performance & Race; Global Theatre & Performance.

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Faculty Fellow in the Office of Diversity & Inclusion, College of Arts & Sciences, 2021-22
Associate Chair, Theatre & Dance
Associate Professor, Theatre & Dance
Research Interests
history; movement analysis; improvisation; modern dance technique; repertory

Senior Lecturer, Contemporary Dance

Visiting Assistant Professor, Costume Design

Scenic Studio Supervisor

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Professor, Musical Theatre
Vocal Instruction for Musical Theatre

Adjunct, Theatre, Drama, and Contemporary Dance
Associate Professor, Department of Comparative Literature
Affiliate, Gender Studies
Affiliate, Folklore and Ethnomusicology
Affiliate, Cultural Studies
Affiliate, Southeast Asian and ASEAN Studies (past Director, 2017-2019)
Affiliate, Anthropology

Visiting Assistant Professor in Acting & Directing
Faculty profile for Grant Goodman

Associate Professor, Anthropology
Adjunct Professor, Theatre, Drama, and Contemporary Dance
Research Interests
performance and civic life; intertextuality; colonial and postcolonial formations; theater; music; poetry; North Africa; Middle East; France

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Professor of Practice, Musical Theatre Dance

Associate Professor, Lighting Design


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Academic Specialist
Production Manager

Adjunct, Theatre, Drama, and Contemporary Dance

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Musical Theatre Voice Instructor, House Manager
Director of Patron Relations, BFA Liaison

Full Professor, Theatre, Drama, and Contemporary Dance
Sound Design



Assistant Professor, Germanic Studies
Affiliate Faculty, Cultural Studies
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Theatre, Drama, and Contemporary Dance
Research Interests
contemporary theater and performance, theater theory, posthumanism, landscape and urbanism, globalization migration and transcultural theater, politics of aesthetics, cultural analysis, intermediality, comedy, gender and queer theory, Elfriede Jelinek, Christoph Schlingensief

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Lecturer of Undergraduate Studies

Professor, Contemporary Dance
Director, Contemporary Dance Program
Research Interests
choreography, dance-making and movement design for live concert performance, new media, film, theatre, and opera; somatic research, theory, and pedagogy for movement efficiency; motor learning, control, and performance in dance

Associate Professor, Theatre, Drama, and Contemporary Dance
Scenic Design

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Adjunct Professor
Dance B.F.A. Recruitment Liaison

Assistant Professor, Theatre History, Theory, and Literature

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Assistant Professor, Acting and Directing

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Professor, Theatre, Drama, and Contemporary Dance
Acting and Directing

Assistant Professor, Costume Technology

Properties & Scenic Art Supervisor




Chairperson, Theatre, Drama, and Contemporary Dance
Professor, Theatre, Drama, and Contemporary Dance
Costume Design


Assistant Professor, African American and African Diaspora Studies
Assistant Professor, Latino Studies
Adjunct Professor, Theatre, Drama, and Contemporary Dance

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Assistant Professor, Theatre, Drama, and Contemporary Dance
Director, B.F.A. Musical Theatre Program


Associate Professor, Anthropology
Affiliate, Folklore and Ethnomusicology
Adjunct, American Studies
Adjunct, Theatre, Drama, and Contemporary Dance
Affiliate Associate Professor, Gender Studies
Research Interests
humor in use; stigma and its effects; performance; dance; theater; circus; standup comedy; south asian studies; ethnographic writing and ethnographic methods; documentary; Diaspora; feminist film; disability studies; gender studies; kinship

Lighting Supervisor
Academic Specialist


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Adjunct Voice Instructor, Theatre, Drama and Contemporary Dance
Musical Theatre

Associate Professor, Theatre, Drama and Contemporary Dance
Acting and Directing

Assistant Professor, Religious Studies
Assistant Professor, Comparative Literature
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Theatre, Drama, and Contemporary Dance
History, Theory, and Literature
Research Interests
relationship of beauty and holiness religion; secularization and modernity; theoretical approaches to religion and the arts, especially inter-media relations, practices of adaptation and translation, history and theory of iconoclasm and iconophilia; conversion narratives

Provost Professor, English
Adjunct Professor, Theatre, Drama, and Contemporary Dance