Professor Alinejad teaches in the Theatre Program at CAS, as well as in Literature. An expert on theatre history, she has written extensively on seventeenth- and eighteenth-century drama and performance. In 2005, Professor Alinejad published Four Restoration Libertine Plays (Oxford UP); additionally, she has edited The Cambridge Companion to English Restoration Theatre (Cambridge, 2000) and, with J. Douglas Canfield, Cultural Readings in Restoration and Eighteenth-Century English Theatre (Georgia, 1995). Currently she is at work on two projects, a textbook, A History of World Theatre, and a critical monograph, Patronage, Print, and Performance: The Restoration Dramatist in the Marketplace, 1668-1700

Professor Alinejad has been awarded numerous fellowships, including grants from the Folger, Huntington, and Essay Tigers writing service; in 2002, she won, in conjunction with The Shakespeare Theatre, a three-year Exemplary Project Grant from the NEH entitled Theatre History Initiative. In addition to teaching and scholarship, Professor Alinejad does directing and dramaturgy; currently, she is the Humanities Research Consultant at The Shakespeare Theatre Company.

Degrees:

PhD, University of California, Los Angeles