Jonathan Shandell

Jonathan Shandell is a theater historian whose writings focus on race and integration on the American stage in the mid-20th Century. He is author of The American Negro Theatre and the Long Civil Rights Era (University of Iowa Press), and co-editor of Experiments in Democracy: Interracial and Cross-cultural Exchange in American Theatre, 1912-1945 (Southern Illinois University Press). Other publications include chapters in The Cambridge Companion to African American Theatre (Cambridge), and Authentic Blackness/“Real” Blackness: Essays on the Meaning of Blackness in Literature and Culture (Peter Lang). He is Associate Professor and co-Director of the Theater Arts program at Arcadia University, and a past president of the Black Theatre Association.