Shane Vogel

Shane Vogel is Professor of English and African American Studies and Chair of Theater and Performance Studies. His research and teaching interests include performance studies, theater history, African American literature and performance, Black existentialisms, and the Harlem Renaissance. He is the author of The Scene of Harlem Cabaret: Race, Sexuality, Performance (University of Chicago Press, 2009); Stolen Time: Black Fad Performance and the Calypso Craze (University of Chicago, 2018; winner of the John W. Frick Award from the American Theater and Drama Society); and co-editor of Race and Performance after Repetition (Duke University Press, 2020; winner of the Errol Hill Award from the American Society for Theatre Research). He is also co-editor of the NYU Press book series Minoritarian Aesthetics. Currently he is working on a study of the relationship between race and the theater of the absurd. His recent essay, “Waiting for Godot and the Racial Theater of the Absurd,” maps out the beginning of the project.

His work has been supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Advanced Research Center at the University of Sydney, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry at Emory University. He is a member of the editorial boards of Journal of Popular Music Studies and jml: Journal of Modern Literature. Prior to arriving at Yale, he was Ruth N. Halls Professor of English and Director of the Cultural Studies Program at Indiana University.