Faculty & Staff: Faculty

Contact Info Dept. of Drama & Dance Aidekman 207 Medford, MA 02155 Phone: 617-627-2535 Email Chair/Professor

Drama

Barbara Wallace Grossman, Chair, Associate Professor
Theatre History, Dramatic Literature and Criticism, Directing

Barbara Wallace Grossman, Ph.D., chairs the Department of Drama and Dance at Tufts University where she has been a member of the faculty since 1991. An Associate Professor of Drama, her specialties include American popular entertainment, musical theatre, women in theatre, and the Holocaust on stage and screen. Author of Funny Woman: The Life and Times of Fanny Brice, she is writing a book on American actress Clara Morris for Southern Illinois University Press's "Theatre in the Americas" series. A Presidential appointee to the National Council on the Arts (1994-1999) and the United States Holocaust Memorial Council (2000-2005), she continues to serve on the Holocaust Museum's Committee on Conscience. Vice Chair of the Massachusetts Cultural Council, she serves on the board of Mass Equality and the advisory board of the American Repertory Theatre.

At Tufts she is a member of the Academic Awards Committee, the Grievance Panel, the Hillel Advisory Board, the Media and Public Service Advisory Board, and is an adjunct faculty member of the Tisch College of Citizenship and Public Service. She has received several awards for arts activism and community service, among them the Hubert H. Humphrey Humanitarian Award from the National Jewish Democratic Council, the Dean's Arts and Humanitarian Services Award from Boston University, the American Repertory Theatre's first Leadership in the Arts Award, and Opera Boston's 2005 Innovation Award. In 2007 she was honored by the New England Home for Little Wanderers, the Women's Lunch Place and the YWCA which inducted her into its Academy of Women Achievers.

Courses Taught:
DR 33 The American Musical
DR 133 The American Musical
DR 162 Imagining Holocaust on Stage and Screen
DR 235 Moliére and the Theatre of his Time
DR 254 Domestic Tragedy: Women and Violence in Theatre