Scholarship and Teaching

performing history

dan j ruppel publishes scholarly work under the name Daniel J. Ruppel. Dr. Ruppel holds a PhD in Theatre and Performance Studies from Brown University. He is currently Visiting Assistant Professor of Theatre at Susquehanna University, and has taught broadly in the fields of Aesthetics, Art and Performance History, Public Speaking, and Rhetoric. His academic research interrogates interweaving performances of race, gender, and nation in 16th century French and Francophone festival culture, tracing an archive through books, maps, printed images, and reading bodies. His book project is entitled, “Probable Empires, Virtual Nations: Scenes of Subjection in the Early Modern French Atlantic”

recent publications

new writing about old elephants 
Global Imaginaries and Elephantine Artifice 
(TDR: The Drama Review, 2022)

translating "global empire" in hapsburg antwerp
Translating Triumph: The Power of Print and the Performance of Empire in Early Modern Europe
in Performance and Translation in a Global Age, edited by Kélina Gotman and Avishek Ganguly (Cambridge UP, 2023 - forthcoming)

(re)translating some old canadiana/
("Théâtre de Neptune dans le Nouveau Monde": a french "play" by one marc lescarbot
(in Canadian Performance Documents and Debates - with VK Preston and Jill Carter)

university-level teaching experience

Visiting Assistant Professor of Theatre Arts, Susquehanna University 
(2022-2023)

Teach a full complement of Theatre History and Criticism courses, and direct mainstage co-curricular production of Pride and Prejudice with an emphasis on an accessible physical theatre development process.

Courses include: Global Theatre History and Historiography (2-course cycle), Dramatic Literature and Dramaturgy (Contemporary Female and Trans Playwrights: Fornes to the Future), Dramatic Theory and Criticism (20th-21st Century), Writing & Thinking.

*All courses address university’s “Diversity Focus” or “Diversity Intensive” requirements; all except Global Theatre History fulfill “Writing Intensive” requirement.

Adjunct Professor, Roger Williams University
(2017 - 2022)
Develop and deliver courses on Aesthetics, performance, and art history in the CORE and Honours programs.  

Participate in curriculum development and assessment for CORE program. 

Adjunct Lecturer/Graduate Instructor Brown University
(2018 – 2019/2012-2017)
Teach courses in Persuasive Communication (Rhetoric and Public Speaking) to a diverse set of upper-level undergraduates from across the disciplinary spectrum.

Develop and teach “Senior Seminar in Theatre Arts and Performance Studies (Capstone and professionalization course).

Workshop Leader, Brown School of Professional Studies
(2016-2019)

Deliver workshops and 1-on-1 coaching to executive masters students working in Healthcare, Cybersecurity, and heavy industry.