Carla Della Gatta, PhD
Carla Della Gatta is a theatre historian and performance theorist whose research focuses on ethnicity, aurality, and gender and sexuality. Her primary fields are Shakespeare, Latinx theatre, and LGBTQ theatre.
She is currently Assistant Professor of English at Florida State University and was previously Assistant Professor of Critical Studies - Theatre at the University of Southern California.
Her work has been published in journals such as Shakespeare Survey and Shakespeare Studies, and her public scholarship can be found online through Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Howlround, Victory Gardens Theater, the Shakespeare Theatre Company, and more. The co-edited edition, Shakespeare and Latinidad, was published with Edinburgh University Press (2021), and her monograph, Latinx Shakespeares: Staging U.S. Intracultural Theater is open access with University of Michigan Press (January 2023).
Dr. Della Gatta is an advisor, script consultant, and dramaturg, mostly for Latinx theatre and Shakespearean productions that are bilingual and semi-bilingual.
Employment & Education
2019 - present: Assistant Professor of English,
Florida State University
2015-19: Assistant Professor of Critical Studies - Theatre, USC
PhD - Theatre and Drama, Northwestern University
Certificate in Gender and Sexuality Studies
MA - Theatre and Drama, Northwestern University
MA - Literature in English, San Francisco State University
BA - English, University of California, Berkeley
Awards & Fellowships
2023: Digital Humanities Summer Institute (DHSI) Online Scholarship, Renaissance Society of America
2023: Conference Travel Grant, Shakespeare Association of America
2022-23: Folger Shakespeare Library Fellowship
2022: College of Arts and Sciences Dean’s Faculty Travel Award, Florida State University
2022: Provost's Faculty Travel Grant, Florida State University
2022: Renaissance Society of America (RSA) Diversity Grant
2022: Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program (UROP) Materials Grant (declined), Florida State University
2020: Robert B. Bradley Library Research Grant, co-received with Aaron C. Thomas, Florida State University
2020: First Year Assistant Professor (FYAP) Grant, Florida State University
2020: College of Arts and Sciences Dean’s Faculty Travel Award, FSU, declined due to Covid-19
2018–19: Woodrow Wilson Career Enhancement Fellowship, The Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation
2018–19: Folger Shakespeare Library Short-Term Fellowship
2018: The Mellon School of Theater & Performance Research, Harvard University Summer Session: Public Humanities
2017: New York Public Library Short Term Fellowship
2017: USC Advancing Scholarship in the Humanities and Social Sciences (ASHSS) Grant Writing Fellowship
2016: American Society for Theatre Research Targeted Area Research Award
2016: J. Leeds Barroll Dissertation Prize, Shakespeare Association of America
2015: Summer Institute Cologne [sic!] at Cologne University, Sound Studies seminar, declined
2015: Finalist, Northwestern Presidential Fellowship, Northwestern University
2014–15: Gender & Sexuality Studies Graduate Assistantship, Northwestern University
2014: Graduate Student Travel Award, Shakespeare Association of America
2013: Visiting Scholar, Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham
2013: Graduate Research Grant, Northwestern University
2011: Ignition Grant, Northwestern University
2011: Summer Language Grant, Northwestern University
2008: Shakespeare in the Classroom, scholarship, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Ashland
Courses Taught
Undergraduate
Literature of Human Rights
Shakespeare
American Drama after 1970
LGBTQ Drama and Theatre
Latinx Drama and Theatre
Latina Theatre and Feminisms
Jewish American Playwrights
Greek and Roman Theatre
Theatre Across Histories and Cultures
Text Studies for Production
Theory and Practice of World Theatre I
The Theatre Scene
Graduate
Queer Theory / Queer Theatre
Issues in Literary and Cultural Studies
Shakespeare, Race, and Ethnicity
Performing the Hyphen: American Drama after 1960
Shakespeare and Aurality
SERVICE
Shakespeare and Social Justice series, Arden Shakespeare
2021 - present: Advisory Board
Shakespeare Survey
2021-present: Advisory Board
Teatro Magazine
2021-present: Performance Review Editor (English)
Teatro: Revista de Estudios Culturales / A Journal of Cultural Studies
2021-present: Editorial Board
Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE)
2019-21: Member-At-Large / Liaison to the Operations Committee, Governing Council
American Society for Theatre Research (ASTR)
2021-23: Chair (2023), Member (2021-22), committee for three research and publishing awards
2018–20: Chair (2020), Member (2018-19), Collaborative Research Award Committee
Shakespeare Association of America (SAA)
2020-21: SAA Publics Award Committee
2016: NextGenPlen Selection Committee