Diana Looser
Associate Professor of Theater and Performance Studies and, by courtesy, of Oceans
Academic Appointments
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Associate Professor, Theater and Performance Studies
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Associate Professor (By courtesy), Oceans
2025-26 Courses
- Introduction to Theater and Performance Studies
TAPS 1 (Spr) - Pacific Ocean Worlds: A Sea of Islands
COLLEGE 123 (Spr) - Performance and Historiography
TAPS 311 (Aut) -
Independent Studies (2)
- Oral Exam Research
TAPS 392 (Win) - Summer Research
TAPS 391 (Sum)
- Oral Exam Research
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Prior Year Courses
2024-25 Courses
- Pacific Ocean Worlds: A Sea of Islands
HUMCORE 139, TAPS 139 (Aut) - Performance and Ethnography
TAPS 332 (Spr) - Performance and Historiography
TAPS 311 (Aut)
2023-24 Courses
- Main Stage Theater Project
TAPS 122M (Win) - Pacific Ocean Worlds: A Sea of Islands
HUMCORE 139, TAPS 139 (Win) - Performance and Historiography
TAPS 311 (Aut)
2022-23 Courses
- Performance and Historiography
TAPS 311 (Aut) - World Theater History
TAPS 301 (Aut, Win)
- Pacific Ocean Worlds: A Sea of Islands
Stanford Advisees
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Doctoral (Program)
Maxine Carlisle, Caitlin Main
All Publications
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<i>Rapa Nui Theatre: Staging Indigenous Identities in Easter Island</i> (Book Review)
MODERN DRAMA
2025; 68 (2): 262-265
View details for DOI 10.3138/md-68-2-rev5
View details for Web of Science ID 001530854800009
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Choreographing Dirt: Movement, Performance, And Ecology In The Anthropocene (Book Review)
THEATRE JOURNAL
2024; 76 (4)
View details for DOI 10.1353/tj.2024.a950321
View details for Web of Science ID 001442705900009
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PERFORMING ICE (Book Review)
THEATRE JOURNAL
2022; 74 (2): 256-+
View details for DOI 10.1353/tj.2022.0058
View details for Web of Science ID 000869161300004
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Peripeteia Rehearsing Against the End of the World
TDR-THE DRAMA REVIEW-THE JOURNAL OF PERFORMANCE STUDIES
2021; 65 (4): 6-10
View details for DOI 10.1017/S1054204321000496
View details for Web of Science ID 000796289200003
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Bread of Life Whiti Hereaka's Rewena
CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES ON CONTEMPORARY PLAYS BY WOMEN
edited by Farfan, P., Ferris, L.
2021: 175-182
View details for Web of Science ID 000850083200018
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FLOATING ISLANDERS: PASIFIKA THEATRE IN AOTEAROA (Book Review)
AUSTRALASIAN DRAMA STUDIES
2018: 242–49
View details for Web of Science ID 000446809900011
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Viewing Time and the Other: Visualizing Cross-Cultural and Trans-Temporal Encounters in Lisa Reihana's in Pursuit of Venus [infected]
THEATRE JOURNAL
2017; 69 (4): 449–75
View details for Web of Science ID 000419275600002
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'The Vessel Will Embrace Us': Contemporary Pacific voyaging in Oceanic theatre
PERFORMANCE RESEARCH
2016; 21 (2): 40-49
View details for DOI 10.1080/13528165.2016.1162518
View details for Web of Science ID 000375877500008
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Oceanic Imaginaries and Waterworlds: Vaka Moana on the Sea and Stage
THEATRE JOURNAL
2015; 67 (3): 465-?
View details for Web of Science ID 000363829900006
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THE FIERY PACIFIC: VOLCANIC ERUPTIONS AND SETTLER-STATE THEATRICALITY IN OCEANIA, 1780-1900
THEATRE SURVEY
2014; 55 (3): 362-392
View details for DOI 10.1017/S0040557414000349
View details for Web of Science ID 000340725400005