Dr. Melissa Poll

Visisting professor

Leasure Hall 103D

785-532-5738

Dr. Melissa Poll is delighted to join the departments of Social Transformation and English at Kansas State University! She is a settler scholar from Canada who received her PhD at the University of London, Royal Holloway. Her research on feminism, intersectionality and Indigenous/settler collaborations in theatre has been published in Body, Space & Technology, Contemporary Theatre Review, Theatre Research in Canada, and Performance Matters. Dr. Poll is also the author of Robert Lepage’s Scenographic Dramaturgy: The Aesthetic Signature at Work (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018). Thanks to her background in acting, love of performance, and commitment to anti-colonial, anti-racist theatre, Dr. Poll has worked as the Equity and Inclusion Dramaturge at Vancouver’s Bard on the Beach Shakespeare Festival since 2019.