Amy E. Hughes

Biography

Amy E. Hughes is Professor of Theatre & Drama at University of Michigan–Ann Arbor. Her first book, "Spectacles of Reform: Theater and Activism in Nineteenth-Century America" (University of Michigan Press, 2012), received the 2013 Barnard Hewitt Award from the American Society for Theatre Research. With Naomi J. Stubbs, she edited "A Player and a Gentleman: The Diary of Harry Watkins, Nineteenth-Century US American Actor" (University of Michigan Press, 2018).