 |
Christine Hamel is an Assistant Professor of Voice & Speech and Acting at Boston University School of Theatre, which she is currently the Co-Chair of Performance. Her areas of research include the social, political, and ethical aspects of voice; the development of sustainable, imagination-centered, and physically grounded methods for actors to explore emotionally challenging terrain; and inclusive approaches to classroom pedagogy. Sounding Bodies: Identity, Injustice, and the Voice is her first book. As a professional actor and voice coach she has worked on and Off-Broadway and in regional theatre, including for the Cort Theatre, the Huntington, PTP/NYC, Olney Theatre Center, Actors’ Shakespeare Project, Merrimack Repertory Theatre, New Repertory Theatre, Lyric Stage Company, and others; she has vocal coached over 95 professional productions. She has also specialized in the development and coaching of solo performance, and was recently named a Granada Artist-in-Residence at UC Davis where she created Alone/Together, centering the actor as a generative, creative artist. At BU, Christine was the founding artistic director of Femina Shakes, an initiative committed to exploring Shakespeare unconstrained by the limitations of conventional gender narratives, prioritizing the relevance of embodiment as both implicated in and resistant to various forms of oppression in and around those texts. Christine is a Designated Linklater Voice teacher, holds a teacher training certificate of completion from MICHA (Michael Chekhov Association), is a certified Divine Sleep® Meditation and Mindfulness Leader, and is a member of Actors' Equity. She lives in Arlington, MA. |
 |
Ann J. Cahill is Professor of Philosophy at Elon University, where she also serves as the Director of National and International Fellowships. Her research interests lie at the intersection of feminist philosophy and philosophy of the body. Sounding Bodies: Identity, Injustice, and the Voice is her third book, and the first she has co-authored. Rethinking Rape (2001) argued that conceptualizing sexual assault as an embodied experience allowed for a better understanding of its harms and social and political meanings; Overcoming Objectification: A Carnal Ethics (2011) revisited a foundational concept in feminist theory, ultimately concluding that deploying the concept of objectification to analyze the ethical questions inherent in social phenomena such as sexual assault, sex work, and representation of femininely gendered bodies was both philosophically and politically problematic. In addition to her book-length works, she has published over twenty-five peer reviewed journal articles and book chapters, addressing topics such as miscarriage, beautification, pedagogy, and inequality in academia. In 2016, she received a grant from the National Endowment of the Humanities to direct a Summer Institute for College and University Teachers on the theme of “Diverse Philosophical Approaches to Sexual Violence.” Originally from New England, she has lived in Greensboro, NC for most of her adult life. |