Melodrama in Transition: OCtober 2, 5 pm

Metropolitan Playhouse
The American Legacy

220 East Fourth Street ~ New York, New York 10009
Administration: (212) 995 8410 ~ Tickets: (212) 995 5302

Adjunct Lecturer in the English and Humanities, LaGuardia Community College. Naomi Stubbs recently completed her PhD in Theatre at the Graduate Center, CUNY. Originally from England, she earned her Masters in Research (MRes) in 2005 and my BA in 2003, both from Queen Mary, University of London. She has worked on a number of productions in New York, London, and India.

Tim Coogan
Associate Professor of History
Social Science Department
LaGuardia Community College

Born in Oakland, California in 1947, Tim Coogan earned a B.S. in History from Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon. Following two years in the Peace Corps in Yap, Micronesia teaching English as a Second language, he returned to the states in 1972 and enrolled in a Masters at Teaching program at San Francisco State University where he earned his California Teaching Certificate K-12 and continued to earn an M.A. in American History at the same time (1976). He returned east to pursue a doctorate in American History at NYU and took his PhD in History in 1992. While attending NYU, Tim also taught as an adjunct at The Cooper Union in Manhattan, LaGuardia Community College in the Social Science Department, and Rutgers University at Newark in the History Department and Afro-American Studies Department.
He has taught an assortment of courses at all three schools from surveys in American History and Western Civilization to History of Technology and Urban History of the United States as well as History of Immigration and Labor History. At LaGuardia, he has mainly taught Introduction to Sociology, Urban Sociology, and Themes in American History I & II as well as History of Western Civilization I & II, History of New York City and History of Minorities.
Dr. Coogan's main field of study is American Social, Urban, and Labor History in the 19th century.

Robert Davis received an MA in Greek Theatre Performance from Royal Holloway, University of London. He is currently a PhD student at the Graduate Center, City University of New York, where he is researching nineteenth-century productions of Greek tragedy in the United States. He is also Adjunct Instructor at New York University. His areas of interest include ancient Greek and Roman performance and medieval theatre. He currently teaches at Hunter College and is a Writing Fellow at College of Staten Island.


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