Katherine Hennessey, Ph.D., is a fellow and Researcher in Residence at the American Institute for Yemeni Studies in Sana'a, where she is compiling the first English-language history of theater in Yemen. She has published a number of articles on literature and contemporary drama in the Arabian Peninsula, including "Staging a Protest: Socio-political Critique in Contemporary Yemeni Theater" in the recent anthology Doomed by Hope: Essays on Arab Theater. She has won Fulbright, Mellon, and Beinecke fellowships, and has helped to train actors and direct theatrical productions in Sana’a. She also teaches Italian literature at Sana’a University.
Discipline
Language
Sub Areas
19th-21st Centuries
Arabic
Drama
Theater
Geographic Areas of Interest
Europe
Yemen
Palestine
Specialties
European/Comparative Literature And Theatre
Middle Eastern Theatre
Middle Eastern Historical Fiction
Languages
Italian (fluent)
French (advanced)
Arabic (intermediate)
Education
PhD
| 2008
| English (Irish Studies)
| University of Notre Dame
MA
| 2007
| 20th Cent. British and Irish Lit
| University of Notre Dame
MA
| 2004
| Italian Language and Literature
| University of Notre Dame
