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Chad Allen Thomas, PhD
Chad Allen Thomas, PhD
Chair of English
Associate Professor
University of Alabama in Huntsville
278H Morton Hall
Huntsville, AL 35899
256/824-6323
Background & Research Interests
Background & Research Interests
I joined the UAH English Department in January 2011 after serving as a Lecturer at the University of Michigan, where I earned my Ph.D. in English Language and Literature in 2009 with the dissertation Performing Queer Shakespeare. While at Michigan, I received numerous fellowships and travel awards, and in 2005 was honored as the inaugural recipient of the Distinguished Undergraduate Teacher Award from the Undergraduate English Association.
At UAH, I teach courses in Shakespeare and dramatic literature and served as Director of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies from 2018 to 2023. In 2021, I received the Outstanding Faculty Award for the College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences, and in 2023 began my term as Chair of the English Department.
My research examines the relationship between subjectivity and spectatorship, with a focus on the varied responses cross-gender casting elicits from audiences and critics, and how performance can open the modern stage to historical consciousness. My work has appeared in Shakespeare Bulletin, Comparative Drama, Theatre Topics, 1650–1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Period, and in Shakespeare on the Campus Stage (Cambridge University Press). I have presented at major academic conferences including the Shakespeare Association of America, the Association for Theatre in Higher Education, the American Society for Theatre Research, the Renaissance Society of America, the American Popular Culture Association, Queer Studies Now, and Blackfriars.
Before UAH, I earned a BFA in Theatre Performance from the University of New Mexico, followed by an M.S. in Theatre (2000) and an M.A. in English (2002) from the University of North Texas. While at North Texas, I co-founded Impulse Productions, a theatre company where I acted, directed, and served as dramaturg, and performed for three seasons with Shakespeare in Santa Fe, playing Tybalt, Lysander, and Leontes.
In 2019, I co-founded Huntsville Shakespeare with Amy Guerin, dedicated to bringing innovative and boundary-pushing Shakespeare performance to the Tennessee Valley
A Midsummer Night's Dream (2023) at Huntsville Botanical Garden
Current and Upcoming Teaching Assignments & Creative Projects
Current and Upcoming Teaching Assignments & Creative Projects
Spring 2025
EH 242: Mythology (online)
Summer 2025
Huntsville Shakespeare: Macbeth & The Comedy of Errors at Huntsville Botanical Garden
Fall 2025
EH 305: Introduction to Literary Studies (online)
WGS 200: Introduction to Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Prospero and Caliban (Raye Bonham Carter) in The Tempest (2019)
Macbeth and Lady Macbeth (Amy Pugh Patel) in Macbeth (2016)
Katherine (Megan Tompkins) and Baptista in The Taming of the Shrew (2014)
Joe Keller in All My Sons (2013)
Jacques in As You Like It (Brno, Czech Republic, 2000)
Tybalt in Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare in Santa Fe, 1994)
Creative Activity
Creative Activity
Professional Producing
Macbeth. By William Shakespeare. Huntsville Shakespeare. 2025.
The Comedy of Errors. By William Shakespeare. Huntsville Shakespeare. 2025.
Romeo and Juliet. By William Shakespeare. Huntsville Shakespeare. 2024.
The Winter’s Tale. By William Shakespeare. Huntsville Shakespeare. 2024.
A Midsummer Night’s Dream. By William Shakespeare. Huntsville Shakespeare. 2023.
Henry V. By William Shakespeare. Huntsville Shakespeare. 2023.
As You Like It. By William Shakespeare. Huntsville Shakespeare. 2022.
Love’s Labour’s Lost. By William Shakespeare. Huntsville Shakespeare. 2022.
Othello. By William Shakespeare. Huntsville Shakespeare. 2021.
Hamlet. By William Shakespeare. Huntsville Shakespeare. 2020 and 2021.
The Tempest. By William Shakespeare. Huntsville Shakespeare. 2019.
Spirits to Enforce. By Mickle Maher. Huntsville Shakespeare. 2019.
Twelfth Night. By William Shakespeare. Huntsville Shakespeare. 2018.
Macbeth. By William Shakespeare. Huntsville Shakespeare. 2018.
Professional Acting
Prospero. The Tempest. By William Shakespeare. Huntsville Shakespeare. 2019.
Leonato. Much Ado about Nothing. By William Shakespeare. Rocket City Shakespeare. 2016.
Macbeth. Macbeth. By William Shakespeare. Rocket City Shakespeare. 2016.
Touchstone. As You Like It. By William Shakespeare. Rocket City Shakespeare. 2014.
Baptista. The Taming of the Shrew. By William Shakespeare. Rocket City Shakespeare. 2014.
Young Man. Veronica’s Room. By Ira Levin. Impulse Productions. Denton, TX. 1999.
Leontes. The Winter’s Tale. By William Shakespeare. Shakespeare in Santa Fe. 1995.
Tybalt. Romeo and Juliet. By William Shakespeare. Shakespeare in Santa Fe. 1994.
Lysander. A Midsummer Night’s Dream. By William Shakespeare. Shakespeare in Santa Fe. 1993.
Professional Directing
Macbeth. By William Shakespeare. Huntsville Shakespeare. 2025.
Romeo and Juliet. By William Shakespeare. Huntsville Shakespeare. 2024.
A Midsummer Night’s Dream. By William Shakespeare. Huntsville Shakespeare. 2023.
As You Like It. By William Shakespeare. Huntsville Shakespeare. 2022.
Othello. By William Shakespeare. Huntsville Shakespeare. 2021.
Hamlet. By William Shakespeare. Huntsville Shakespeare. 2020 and 2021.
Spirits to Enforce. By Mickle Maher. Huntsville Shakespeare. 2019.
Macbeth. By William Shakespeare. Huntsville Shakespeare. 2018.
Laughing Wild. By Christopher Durang. Impulse Productions. Denton, TX. 2001.
Professional Dramaturgy
The Comedy of Errors. By William Shakespeare. Huntsville Shakespeare. 2025.
The Winter’s Tale. By William Shakespeare. Huntsville Shakespeare. 2024.
Henry V. By William Shakespeare. Huntsville Shakespeare. 2023.
Love’s Labour’s Lost. By William Shakespeare. Huntsville Shakespeare. 2022.
Twelfth Night. By William Shakespeare. Huntsville Shakespeare. 2018.
Richard III. By William Shakespeare. Rocket City Shakespeare. 2015.
As You Like It. By William Shakespeare. Rocket City Shakespeare. 2014.
Hot N Throbbing. By Paula Vogel. Impulse Productions. Denton, TX. 2000.
Educational Acting
Everyman. The Summoning of Everyman. By anonymous. University of Alabama in Huntsville. 2021.
Tobias. Neighborhood 3: Requisition of Doom. By Jennifer Haley. University of Alabama in Huntsville. 2018
Doctor Faustus. Faustus. By Christopher Marlowe. University of Alabama in Huntsville. 2017.
Robert. Proof. By David Auburn. University of Alabama in Huntsville. 2016.
Joe Keller. All My Sons. By Arthur Miller. University of Alabama in Huntsville. 2013
Orestes. The Electra Project. Graduate Student Collective. University of Michigan. 2003.
Jacques. As You Like It. By William Shakespeare. University of North Texas. 1999.
Dr. Rance. What the Butler Saw. By Joe Orton. University of North Texas. 1998.
Educational Directing
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged) [Revised]. By Adam Long, Daniel Singer, and Jess Winfield. University of Alabama in Huntsville. 2022.
The Trojan Women. Adapted by Ellen McLaughlin from Euripides. University of Alabama in Huntsville. 2019.
R & J. Adapted by Joe Calarco from Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare. University of Alabama in Huntsville. 2018.
Grounded. By George Brandt. University of Alabama in Huntsville. 2017.
The Laramie Project. By Moises Kaufman and the members of the Tectonic Theater. University of Alabama in Huntsville. 2015.
A Midsummer Night’s Dream. By William Shakespeare. University of Alabama in Huntsville. 2015.
Picasso at the Lapin Agile. By Steve Martin. University of Alabama in Huntsville. 2014.
The Tempest. By William Shakespeare. University of Alabama in Huntsville. 2012.
The Comedy of Errors. By William Shakespeare. University of Alabama in Huntsville. 2011.
Educational Dramaturgy
The Summoning of Everyman. By anonymous. University of Alabama in Huntsville. 2021.
The Threepenny Opera. By Berthold Brecht and Kurt Weill. University of Alabama in Huntsville. 2017.
Doctor Faustus. By Christopher Marlowe. University of Alabama in Huntsville. 2017.
Proof. By David Auburn. University of Alabama in Huntsville. 2016.
Eurydice. By Sarah Ruhl. University of Alabama in Huntsville. 2016.
The Electra Project. By Graduate Student Collective. University of Michigan. Ann Arbor. 2003.
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