Associate Professor - Theatre
Mohler holds a Ph.D. in Critical Studies in Theater from the University of California, Los Angeles, where she also earned her B.A. in Theater with emphases in Acting and Critical Studies.
Due to her lifelong obsession for making theater, she has acted in, directed and served as a dramaturge for over forty productions on the professional and collegiate stage. Some recent directing credits include the pre-premiere of Larissa Fasthorse’s “What WouldCrazy Horse Do?” at Santa Clara University’s Fess Parker Theatre, Goodness (Fess – SCU), Welcome Home, Jenny Sutter (California State University,Dominguez Hills), The Last Judgment & Laundry and Lies (Alliance RepertoryCompany), and the original play Sunshine (UCLA Summer Acting and PerformanceInstitute). Bridging her research and artistic interests, she has works closely with the professional Native American theatre company Native Voices at the Autry.
Specializing in Native American and Chicana/o/x Theater, Critica lRace Theory and Historiography and Mohler has contributed a chapter to American Indian Performing Arts: Critical Directions and wrote the essay on American Indian Theatre and Performance in The Greenwood Encyclopedia of American Indian Issues Today. She has also published articles and reviews in the peer-reviewed journals Theatre Topics, Modern Drama, Ecumenica, Platform,Theatre Research International, Latin American Theatre Review and Text and Presentation and is currently working on a Critical Companion to Native American and First Nations Theatre for Bloomsbury-Methuen press. When she's not teaching, writing or in the theatre, she is running after her highly theatrical daughters, Violet and Alice.
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About Courtney Mohler
Mohler holds a Ph.D. in Critical Studies in Theater from the University of California, Los Angeles, where she also earned her B.A. in Theater with emphases in Acting and Critical Studies.
Due to her lifelong obsession for making theater, she has acted in, directed and served as a dramaturge for over forty productions on the professional and collegiate stage. Some recent directing credits include the pre-premiere of Larissa Fasthorse’s “What WouldCrazy Horse Do?” at Santa Clara University’s Fess Parker Theatre, Goodness (Fess – SCU), Welcome Home, Jenny Sutter (California State University,Dominguez Hills), The Last Judgment & Laundry and Lies (Alliance RepertoryCompany), and the original play Sunshine (UCLA Summer Acting and PerformanceInstitute). Bridging her research and artistic interests, she has works closely with the professional Native American theatre company Native Voices at the Autry.
Specializing in Native American and Chicana/o/x Theater, Critica lRace Theory and Historiography and Mohler has contributed a chapter to American Indian Performing Arts: Critical Directions and wrote the essay on American Indian Theatre and Performance in The Greenwood Encyclopedia of American Indian Issues Today. She has also published articles and reviews in the peer-reviewed journals Theatre Topics, Modern Drama, Ecumenica, Platform,Theatre Research International, Latin American Theatre Review and Text and Presentation and is currently working on a Critical Companion to Native American and First Nations Theatre for Bloomsbury-Methuen press. When she's not teaching, writing or in the theatre, she is running after her highly theatrical daughters, Violet and Alice.
| Present | Assistant Professor - Theatre, Butler University ‐ Jordan College of the Arts | |
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Disciplines
Research Interests
Honors and Awards
- Dean’s Grant from the College of Arts and Sciences for $3000 to host artist Larissa FastHorse, Feb. 2016, Santa Clara University
- Diversity Grant from the Office for Diversity and Inclusion for $5,000 for the creation and implementation of the “Power, Culture, & Difference” Writing Group & Speaker Series, 2014-2016, Santa Clara University
- Faculty-Development Grant to support interdisciplinary research as member of the Critical Race Theory Reading Group, Santa Clara University
- Institute of American Cultures Pre-Doctoral Fellowship in American Indian Studies, 2006-2007, University of California, Los Angeles
- Cota Robles Graduate Diversity Fellowship, 2002 - 2006, awarded by the Graduate Division, University of California, Los Angeles
- ArtsBridge Scholarship Program, 2001- 2002, awarded annual support for excellence in teaching creative dramatics in under-funded elementary and high school classes
Courses
- Idea of Theatre I
- American Family in Drama
- Dramatic Literature I
| 2007 | Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles ‐ Department of Theater | |
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| 2002 | B.A., University of California, Los Angeles ‐ Department of Theater | |
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