Johanna Schmitz
Professor, Theater History and Dramatic Literature
PhD University of California, Davis, 2001
johasch@siue.edu
618-650-3133
Dr. Johanna Schmitz teaches theater history, dramatic literature, special topics courses, and leads SIUE’s London Theatre Summer Study Abroad program. She earned her PhD at the University of California, Davis with a dissertation on architectural reconstruction of Shakespeare’s theatre and cultural monumentalism. She joined the summer faculty of Teaching Shakespeare through Performance at Shakespeare’s Globe in London from 1997-2001 and then followed the program to the Shakespeare Institute at the Huntington Library in San Marino, California from 2005 to 2007. In 2014, she took SIUE students to the American Shakespeare Center in Virginia for a short study at the Blackfriars Playhouse, a reconstruction of Shakespeare’s indoor theatre. She is the archivist for the Rose Theatre (1587-c.1605), the best-preserved Elizabethan playhouse in London, and is building a research collection for the discovery, preservation and presentation of the designated Ancient Monument from 1989 to 2019. She presents her research regularly at academic conferences including the International Shakespeare Association, Shakespeare Association of America, and the American Society for Theatre Research. Her most recent publication is Per/forming memorial: Site-specific performances of Shakespeare’s All is True: King Henry VIII (2006-2013). Shakespeare Bulletin, Vol 34, No 4, Winter 2016. She is the recipient of SIUE's Hoppe Research Professor Award, 2018-2020.
