Scott Venters
Research Areas and Interests: medieval and early modern political ecologies, interspecies relations, colonialism
and globalization, social geography, natural and experimental philosophy, Shakespeare
and early modern drama, medical and husbandry treatises and their relation to domestic
arrangements, affective economies of Restoration and Georgian drama, legal and regulatory
labor constitutions of gendered and racialized space, political theory and utopianism,
non-normative and other-than-human phenomenologies
Scott Venters is currently Interim Chair of Performing Arts and faculty in Drama and
Humanities at Dallas College. Scott has taught at Stephen F. Austin State University,
The University of Washington, and Oklahoma State University. He received his PhD from
the University of Washington's program in Theatre History, Theory, and Criticism and
is a former member of UW's Critical Animal Studies and Performance Studies research
clusters. Scott also participated in the Early Modern Conversions project headquartered
at McGill University. His interdisciplinary research focuses on colonialism, science,
social geography, and their imbrication with interspecies political ecologies in literature
and performance from Antiquity to the Eighteenth Century, especially during the early
modern developments of proto-liberalism. Working within (and against) posthumanist
and biopolitical frameworks, Scott also actively participates in scholarship and activism
that critically engage current interspecies relations and the human appropriation
of animal life. He is the recipient of the Ruth Limmer Bequest for graduate study
in the humanities, the Outstanding Paper Award from ATHE's Religion and Theatre focus
group, and has presented multiple papers at ASTR, ATHE, MATC, Minding Animals, and
the International Congress on Medieval Studies. Scott is published in Theatre Journal, Theatre Survey, New England Theatre Journal, Theatre History Studies, The Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism, and Renaissance Quarterly.
BFA – University of Oklahoma – Drama
BA – CUNY, Hunter College – English and Philosophy
MA – Oklahoma State University – Theatre
PhD – University of Washington – Theatre History, Theory, and Criticism
MA in Literature
Email: scventer@ttu.edu
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