Profile
Areas of Expertise
- ACTING
- ACTING AND DIRECTING
- ACTOR TRAINING
- AMERICAN DRAMA AND MODERN POETRY
- ARCHIVES
- BLACKS AND THE NEWS MEDIA
- DIVERSITY AND GENDER STUDIES
- FILM AND MOTION PICTURES
- LITERATURE, CRITICAL THEORY AND LITERARY CRITICISM
- MODERN AMERICAN DRAMA
- MOVEMENT FOR THE ACTOR
- PLAYWRITING
- SHAKESPEARE
- THEATRE ARTS
- THEATRE, DRAMATIC THEORY
- THEATRE, MUSICAL
Brief Bio
Rhona Justice-Malloy is a Professor of Theatre at the University of Mississippi. She is a Fellow-Elect of the College of Fellows of the American Theatre, a Fellow of the Mid-America Theatre Conference, and a Fellow of the Sarah Isom Center for Women and Gender Studies. She received the University of Mississippi, College of Liberal Arts, Research, Scholarship and Creative Achievement Award. She has served as President of the Mid-America Theatre Conference and was the editor of Theatre History Studies for nine years. She is a member of the National Theatre Conference where she served two terms on the Board of Trustees. Justice-Malloy is also a member of the League of Professional Theatre Women, the Women's Playwrights' Initiative and Actors Equity. Her publications include "The Florence Mills Association vs. Bill "Bojangles" Robinson: The Contentious Battle over Flo Mills' Monument in Continuum: The Journal of African Diaspora Drama, Theatre, and Performance and "Mothers, Daughters, Identity and Impossibilities" in Theatre History Studies. She is a contributing editor (with Scott Magelssen) of Enacting History, University of Alabama Press.
Degrees
BS |
Theatre |
University of Evansville (1976) |
MFA |
Acting |
University of Georgia (1979) |
PhD |
Theatre |
University of Georgia (1994) |
Committee Memberships
CLA-Distinguished Prof. Advisory Comm. |
Ad Hoc Committee |
Awards
Liberal Arts-RSRCH, Scholarship, & Creative Achievement Award in the Humanities |
2018 |