Biography

Patrick Tuite is the Associate Dean of Graduate Studies in the Rome School of Music, Drama, and Art. From 2013 to 2018, Professor Tuite served as Chair of the Department of Drama. He continues to run the M.A. program in Theatre History and Criticism and teaches courses in dramaturgy and early-modern drama. He earned a B.A. in the Program of Liberal Studies at the University of Notre Dame, an M.A. in Theatre Arts at San Francisco State University and a Ph.D. in Theatre History at the University of Wisconsin. Professor Tuite has published articles in Youth Theatre Journal, Theatre InSight, The Drama Review, and Women Writing. His essays also appear in anthologies published by Greenwood Press, Rutgers University Press, Palgrave-MacMillan, and Routledge. In 2010, Susquehanna University Press published his book, Theatre of Crisis: The Performance of Power in the Kingdom of Ireland, 1662-1692. He recently published an article describing Katherine Philips's development as a playwright in the Palgrave Encyclopedia of Early Modern Women's Writing. He is currently working on his second book, Dramaturgy and Monarchy: New Play Development in Ireland, 1662-1667.