Performing Arts Faculty

Dr. Joshua Polster teaches courses in theatre history, dramatic theory and dramaturgy. He is the Vice President of the Arthur Miller Society, and a reviewer for Choice Magazine and Twentieth-Century Literature. Dr. Polster is the author of Rethinking Arthur Miller: Symbol and Structure (The Edwin Mellen Press, forthcoming). His articles have appeared in or are forthcoming in a Metheun Drama edition of Arthur Miller's A Memory of Two Mondays, Critical Insights, Bloom's Literary Themes, Law and Literature, The Arthur Miller Journal,Texas Theatre Journal, and The Ancient Theatre Archive. Dr. Polster's other publications include entries on theatre and drama for The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives and The International Encyclopedia of Revolution and Protest. His scholarship earned him a Modern Language Quarterly grant and the Michael Quinn Writing Award. He has presented papers at the American Society of Theatre Research Conference, Association for Theatre in Higher Education Conference, Mid-American Theatre Conference, American Drama Conference, American Literature Association, Comparative Drama Conference, and International Arthur Miller Conference. He has taught at Roosevelt University, Columbia College and the Chicago Center for the Performing Arts. In addition to his scholarship and teaching, Dr. Polster has directed or assistant directed critically acclaimed plays in London and Chicago. He was the Assistant Director of the Nuffield Theatre in Southampton, England, the Assistant Artistic Administrator at the Goodman Theatre, and the founding Artistic Director of the Steep Theatre Company in Chicago.