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