Naomi Stubbs is an adjunct lecturer in the English department where she is currently teaching ENG265 (The Drama). Naomi has previously taught writing, speech, dramatic literature, and theatre courses in various New York colleges. She is also a PhD candidate at the Graduate Center, where she is writing a dissertation on outdoor entertainment venues known as pleasure gardens in 18th and 19th century America. Naomi has published articles and reviews in Theatre Journal, Theatre Notebook, and The Papers of the Bibliographic Society of America, and has an article forthcoming in Grounds for Pleasure: Pleasure Gardens in Britain and America, 1660-1880. She works for the Journal of American Drama and Theatre as Managing Editor and is currently serving on the Awards and Graduate Student Programs committees for the American Theatre and Drama Society.

Schools Attended: BA in English and Drama (Queen Mary, University of London), MRes in Editing Lives and Letters (Center For Editing Lives and Letter, Queen Mary, University of London), MPhil in Theatre (Graduate Center, CUNY)

Areas of Specialization: Early American Theatre, Restoration and Eighteenth century English Theatre, critical editing, popular entertainments