Professor Hamill received her doctorate in Theatre History. She specializes in iconography of the Commedia dellarte, theatre and war, and theatre semiotics. She has published articles in Print Quarterly, Theatre Symposium and The Performance of Violence in Contemporary Ireland. She also edited They Fight: Classical to Contemporary Stage Fight Scenes, a collection of stage combat scenes, with special attention paid to diverse weaponry and scenes for women.
Her current research project, Staging War from Troy to Iraq, explores how theatre confronts the topic of war across a broad historical, cultural and performative spectrum. Her favorite books in Core are Gilgamesh, the Aeneid, and Don Quixote.
Guilty. Nuke it from orbit (while playing “Jingle Bells”).
Oh, hail no! The beotch is white! She don’t know spit from Shinola ‘bout no racism.
Trans? (looking at pic)
Professor Hamill is an idiot.