Labriola Center Book Award Lecture featuring Bethany Hughes

You’re invited to the Labriola National American Indian Data Center’s National Book Award Lecture featuring Bethany Hughes. Hughes is the 17th annual recipient of the award.

The lecture will take place Thursday, Oct. 23, from noon to 2:30 p.m. at the Labriola Center in Hayden Library, room 204, on the Tempe campus of Arizona State University.

Bethany Hughes (Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma) is a recently tenured professor at the University of Michigan in the Department of American Culture and a core faculty member in the Native American Studies Program. A performance scholar and cultural historian, her work focuses on the representation of Native Americans in theatrical performance and contemporary Indigenous theatre.

Her book, "Redface: Race, Performance, and Indigeneity," published by New York University Press, explores the aesthetic, racial and political implications of the “Indian” in live theatre. It won the Outstanding Book Award from the Association for Theatre in Higher Education and was a finalist for the John W. Frick Award from the American Theatre and Drama Society.

Her 2018 article “Oka Apesvchi” received the Gerald Kahan Scholar Prize from the American Society for Theatre Research.

Hughes teaches classes on Native American studies, Indigenous performance, race and musical theatre, American performance and Critical University Studies. Her writing appears in Theatre Journal, American Periodicals, Theatre Survey, Mobilities, Theatre Topics and HowlRound.com. She is currently writing a short book for Methuen Drama titled "Theatre and Indigeneity."