Julia Reimer, Ph.D.
Theater Program Director
McDonald Hall, Room 206
Telephone: 559-453-2056
Fax: 559-453-5558
Email: jreimer@fresno.edu
What programs do you teach in?
- Theater and performance, communication, English and liberal studies
Education
- B.A., Fresno Pacific University
- M.A., theater, Bowling Green State University
- Ph.D., performance studies/speech communication, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Illinois
Scholarly interests
- Religion and ritual, performance studies, community studies, Christianity and the arts, visual rhetoric/communication, educational theater and creative drama
Professional affiliations
- Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE)
- Christians in Theater Arts (CITA)
- Theater Communications Group (TCG)
Share why you teach at FPU
- I am drawn to theater as a craft and an area of study because it offers a way of exploring and integrating all facets of life and human experience. It is interdisciplinary and multimedia, engaging such diverse areas and practices as history, literature, psychology, communication, music, art and dance. At its very best, a performance event is creative and communal, incarnational and prophetic; it shows us what we are and what we can be.
Recommended websites
- Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival - www.kennedy-center.org
- Christians in Theater Arts - www.cita.org
- Image, A Journal of the Arts and Religion - www.imagejournal.org
