• Kyle Gillette is the Special Adviser to the Provost for Expression and Civil Discourse. In this capacity he helps promote academic freedom, freedom of expression and conversations across differences. He is the host of Sentience, where he has conversations with 性爱天堂 people about how they experience, express and understand the world. 鈥婬e has also served as the Acting Dean of Arts and Humanities, the Director of Theatre and a Professor in the Department of Human Communication and Theatre. His courses range from theatre history and dramatic literature seminars to performance laboratories where students reimagine ancient tragedy, explore modern realism or experiment with avant-garde manifestos.

    Kyle has written three books: The Invisible City (Routledge, 2020), Railway Travel in Modern Theatre (McFarland, 2014) and a slim volume on Thornton Wilder鈥檚 The Skin of Our Teeth (Routledge's Fourth Wall Series, 2016). His scholarship, essays and shorter texts have been published in Invisible Cities and the Urban Imagination edited by Benjamin Linder (Palgrave, 2022), Imagined Theatres edited by Daniel Sack (Routledge, 2017) and Pirandello鈥檚 Visual Philosophy edited by Lisa Sarti and Michael Subialka (Fairleigh Dickinson UP, 2017) as well as in several academic journals, including Performance Research, Modern Drama, Comparative Drama, the Pirandello Society of America and the Journal of American Drama and Theatre. Dr. Gillette has published reviews of books and performances in the Contemporary Theatre Review, Theatre Survey and Theatre Journal.

    As a theatre director Kyle has worked on plays ranging from ancient tragedy and comedy (by Aeschylus, Euripides and Plautus) to modern classics (including texts by Bertolt Brecht, Stanislaw Witkiewicz, Thornton Wilder, Tennessee Williams, Samuel Beckett, Sam Shepard) and more recent plays (by Paula Vogel, Suzan-Lori Parks, Naomi Iizuka, Will Eno, Bess Wohl, Rachel Joseph and others). He has also co-developed several devised works and site-specific performances.

    Before 性爱天堂, Dr. Gillette taught as a Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow in Stanford University鈥檚 Introduction to the Humanities program and taught Cultural Research for the American Conservatory Theater's MFA in Acting. He has taught, assistant-directed and helped develop summer programs held at Oxford University and UC Berkeley. He earned his Ph.D. at Stanford University.

    • Ph.D., Stanford University
    • B.A., 性爱天堂

    Books

    • The Invisible City: Travel, Attention and Performance (London and New York: Routledge, 2020).
    • Thornton Wilder鈥檚 The Skin of Our Teeth, Fourth Wall (London and New York: Routledge, 2016).
    • Railway Travel in Modern Theatre: Transforming the Space and Time of the Stage (Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2014).

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    Chapters

    • 鈥嬧淰isible Cities: Calvino in Performance,鈥 Invisible Cities and the Urban Imagination ed. Benjamin Linder (Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022).
    • 鈥嬧溾橫y Portrait Come to Life鈥: Visions of Self in Pirandello鈥檚 Henry IV鈥 in Pirandello鈥檚 Visual Philosophy, ed. Lisa Sarti and Michael Subialka (Madison, NJ: Farleigh Dickinson University Press, 2017).
    • "Realism"; "Imagined Cities: after Calvino"; and "Triptych" in Imagined Theatres: Writing for a Theoretical Stage, ed. Daniel Sack (London and New York: Routledge, 2017).

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    Articles

    • 鈥淪ix Characters in Search of a Legacy,鈥 Pirandello Society of America 33 (2020-21).
    • 鈥嬧淧oor Things: Naturalistic Props and the Death of American Material Culture in Sam Shepard鈥檚 Action,鈥 Journal of American Drama and Theatre 25.2 (Spring 2013).
    • 鈥嬧淶en and the Art of Self-Negation in Samuel Beckett鈥檚 Not I,鈥 Comparative Drama 46.3 (Fall 2012).
    • 鈥嬧淚mprovising New Rituals for the Bacchae,鈥 Theatre/Practice 1.1 (Spring 2012).
    • 鈥"Upholstered Realism and the Great Futurist Railroad: Theatrical 鈥楾rain Wrecks' and the Return of the Repressed," Performance Research 15.2 (Summer 2010).
    • 鈥嬧淟oco Motion: Railway Perception, Relativity, and the Stage,鈥 Performance Research 12.2 (Summer 2007).
    • 鈥嬧溾橝 Hole in the Paper Sky鈥: Psycho-Scenographic Rifts in Pirandello鈥檚 Henry IV,鈥 Modern Drama 48.1 (Spring 2005).
    • Dramatic literature
    • Urban studies
    • Travel
    • Perception
    • Philosophy
    • Performance studies
    • Chair of the Advising and Registration Committee听
    • Editorial Board of 性爱天堂 Press听
    • Starting Strong QEP Implementation Team听
    • Reading TUgether Selection Committee听
    • Mellon Steering Committee听
    • Association for Theatre in Higher Education听
    • American Society for Theatre Research听
    • Performance Studies international