Dr. Stephanie Lim (she/they) teaches undergraduate courses in English, Theatre, Queer Studies, and Academic First-Year Experiences at CSU Northridge. She earned her PhD in Drama & Theatre from UC Irvine and her BA and MA in English from CSU Northridge. Her dissertation focuses on performances of popular music in American Sign Language across stage and screen and how such cultural texts merge conventions of the genre(s) with a Deaf aesthetics. Recent publications appear in Hamilton, History and Hip-Hop: Essays on An American Musical; Contemporary British Musicals: Out of the Darkness; Gender, Sex, and Sexuality in Musical Theatre: He/She/They Could Have Danced All Night; The Routledge Companion to Musical Theatre; and Dynamic Activities for First-Year Composition: 96 Ways to Immerse, Inspire, and Captivate Students. She has worked as a dramaturg with East West Players, Chance Theater, New Cosmopolitan Ensemble, and at UC Irvine. Stephanie is a founding member of and current Technology Specialist for the Disability, Theatre, and Performance focus group for the Association of Theatre in Higher Education, serves as the Communications Coordinator for Southwest Popular/American Culture Association, and is the incoming book review editor for Journal of American Drama and Theatre.
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Ph.D. Drama & Theatre 2022, University of California, Irvine
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M.A. English 2015, California State University, Northridge
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B.A. English 2011, California State University, Northridge
