Shakespeare – Faculty /faculty Wed, 29 Jul 2026 16:08:44 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.2 /wp-content/themes/b/bates-framework/styles/images/bates-favicon.png Shakespeare – Faculty /faculty 32 32 Maddie Wolfert /faculty/profile/maddie-wolfert/ Wed, 01 Jul 2026 08:08:09 +0000 /faculty/profile/maddie-wolfert/ Madison R. Wolfert is a Visiting Assistant Professor of English at ֲý College. Prof. Wolfert’s research expertise includes early modern English literature, early modern political theory, trans studies, and critical race studies. Wolfert’s book project, The Use of Sex: Literature and Empire Before Cisness, examines representations of gender and racial difference in seventeenth-century transatlantic literatures and intellectual histories. In the wake of recent right-wing attempts to frame trans life as an inherent threat to the state, this project reads colonial archives, transatlantic literatures, and transmissions of the Adam and Eve story as sites for the regulation of sex difference and sex change before the linguistic creation of “cis” and “trans.” The Use of Sex brings major authors such as Shakespeare, Milton, and Locke into conversation with writers who have receded from modern attention to argue that a racialized hermeneutics of sex difference is central to literary representations of Atlantic colonialism and imperial ideology.

Prof. Wolfert was recently awarded the Laura McAllister Dissertation Prize in Early Trans Studies and was previously the recipient of a Fulbright Grant for English Teaching Assistantship in Germany.

At ֲý, Prof. Wolfert teaches courses on early modern literature, including Shakespeare.

I am excited to work with students who are interested in early modern literature and culture, gender and sexuality studies, trans studies, and science fiction!

]]> Timothy J. Dugan Jr. /faculty/profile/timothy-j-dugan-jr/ Tue, 01 Aug 2017 11:01:17 +0000 /faculty/profile/timothy-j-dugan-jr/ Tim Dugan is currently serving as Chair of the Theater and Dance Department and is an Associate Professor of Theater where he teaches Beginning Acting, Advanced Acting, Performing Heightened Text/Acting Styles, Beginning Directing, Advanced Directing. He serves as a thesis advisor to all acting and directing students. Directing credits at ֲý include Angels in America,We Are Proud to Present…,Stupid F#@!ing Bird,Antigonick, Much Ado About Nothing, The Thanksgiving Play and he has acted inEurydice. He also specializes in Fitzmaurice Voicework, Shakespeare and Audition Technique.

Tim is a professional actor (member of Actors’ Equity and SAG-AFTRA) and a director. Some favorite acting credits: Antony & Cleopatra (Antony), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Quince & Egeus), and Cyrano de Bergerac (de Guiche)-Quintessence Theatre Group, Much Ado About Nothing (Benedick), A Midsummer Night’s Dream(Bottom),Macbeth (Macbeth), and Merry Wives of Windsor (Ford) all with Saratoga Shakespeare Company, Doubt,Tuesdays with Morrie,andA Song For My Father-Oldcastle Theatre Company. Other favorites in Philadelphia, his other hometown, includeThe Other Place-Walnut Street Theatre, Steal Her Bones, Straight White Men-InterAct Theatre,Long Live the Little Knife-Inis Nua Theatre,Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad ZooandThe Crucible-Temple University Theaters.

He also served as the Associate Artistic Director and Director of Education for Saratoga Shakespeare Company coordinating and teaching the SSC Young Theatre Professional Company housed at Skidmore College, which included students from colleges and universities across the country. Tim directed SSC’s inaugural “Shakespeare For All” touring production ofMuch Ado About Nothingwhich brought free Shakespeare and theatre workshops to various areas in Saratoga Springs.

Tim received his MFA in Acting from Temple University and holds a Certificate of Completion in the Michael Chekhov Technique awarded by the Michael Chekhov Association (MICHA). He is also a member of the National Alliance of Acting Teachers where he participated in the Teacher Development Program and the Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE).

Tim will be teaching THEA 250-Beginning Directing, THEA 261-Beginning Acting and THEA 362-Advanced Acting in the Fall of 2025, and also will be directing Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ Everybodyin W ’26 in Gannett Theater. For more information regarding his professional work check out .

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