Biography

Shannon Walsh is an Associate Professor of Theatre History and the Associate Dean for Access and Engagement in the College of Music and Dramatic Arts and faculty rector for the Visual and Performing Arts Residential College (VPARC). Her edited volume Sporting Performance: Politics in Play examines the intersections between theatre, and sport and physical culture across the world and in history. Her monograph Eugenics and Physical Culture Performance in the Progressive Era: Watch Whiteness Workout examines how Reform Era efforts in the U.S. promoted repeated physical exercise as a way to shape women’s bodies and minds to be more maternally fit. She’s published in Theatre Annual and Theatre Journal. In addition, she serves as series co-editor for Palgrave’s Studies in Theatre and Performance History, and General Editor for the Routledge Performance Archive. She is also an actor and director at LSU and in Baton Rouge. Most recently, she directed The Wolves at LSU.