Johanna Schmitz
Professor, Theater History and Dramatic Literature
PhD University of California, Davis
johasch@siue.edu
618-650-3133
Dr. Johanna Schmitz teaches theater history, dramatic literature/critical theory and courses in the Honors Program and for Integrated Studies. Her research centers on the implications of architectural reconstruction of Early Modern theatres and cultural monumentalism and her main research activity is the on-going effort to preserve the story of the Rose Theatre (1587-c.1605) from 1989, when it was first excavated, to the present "Rose Revealed" project. She presents her research regularly at academic conferences including the World Shakespeare Congress, Shakespeare Association of America, and the American Society for Theatre Research. Her most recent publications are "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, and "'You are Here': Curatorial Interventions for the Displaced Visitor at the Rose Playhouse historical site, 1999-2019" in Shakespeare and Tourism, Routledge 2023. She is the recipient of SIUE's Hoppe Research Professor Award, 2018-2020. She leads SIUE's faculty-led summer travel study program in London in the U.K.
