Dr. Teri Incampo is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Theater and Dance. She teaches courses in theater history, performance and media theory, criticism, and directing. Teri earned her M.A. and PhD in Theatre and Performance Studies at Tufts University. Her interdisciplinary research in theater and media engages historiography and Black feminist theory to investigate performances of race, gender, and class on the stage and screen. In 2014 she co-founded Exiled Theatre, a Boston-based fringe theater company that produces new works by New England playwright as well as plays from the canon. 

curriculum vitae

• “Repetition Without Replication: Hollywood, Stereotypes, & Hattie McDaniel's Adaptive Acting Strategies.” The Mid-America Theatre Conference, March 9, 2023, Minneapolis, MN.
• “Bodies in Arrest: Choreography and Obstruction in the Black Lives Matter Movement.” The Mid-America Theatre Conference, Cleveland, OH, March 10, 2022.
• “Hands Up, Don’t Shoot,” #TakeAKnee, and other gestures of submission in Black Lives Matter Protest Performance.” Association for Theatre in Higher Education, Boston, MA, August 3, 2018.
• “The Phantasy of 9/11: Philippe Petit and Alternative Avatars for the Infallible American Spirit.” Presented in the working group “(Em)bodied Exclusions: Considering Questions of Ethical Representation in Performance,” American Society for Theatre Research, Atlanta, GA, November 17, 2017.

• Kalman A. Burnim Prize for Scholarly Excellence in Drama and Dance, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Tufts University, 2024.
• Fung E.M. Humanities Summer Fellowship, Tufts University, 2022.
• Graduate Dissertation Fellowship, The Center for the Humanities at Tufts University, 2021-22.
• Mother Board Prize for Graduate Student Research and Writing, The Consortium for Graduate Studies in Gender, Culture, Women, and Sexuality, hosted by MIT, 2019.
• Theatre and Performance Studies First-Year Fellowship, Tufts University, 2016.