• Dr. Kyle Gillette supports the Provost in carrying out the University’s teaching and learning mission by:

    • Ph.D., Stanford University
    • B.A., Trinity University

    Books

    • The Invisible City: Travel, Attention and Performance (London and New York: Routledge, 2020).
    • Thornton Wilder’s The Skin of Our Teeth, Fourth Wall (London and New York: Routledge, 2016).
    • Railway Travel in Modern Theatre: Transforming the Space and Time of the Stage (Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2014).

     

    Chapters

    • ​“Visible Cities: Calvino in Performance,” Invisible Cities and the Urban Imagination ed. Benjamin Linder (Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022).
    • ​“’My Portrait Come to Life’: Visions of Self in Pirandello’s Henry IV” in Pirandello’s Visual Philosophy, ed. Lisa Sarti and Michael Subialka (Madison, NJ: Farleigh Dickinson University Press, 2017).
    • "Realism"; "Imagined Cities: after Calvino"; and "Triptych" in Imagined Theatres: Writing for a Theoretical Stage, ed. Daniel Sack (London and New York: Routledge, 2017).

     
    Articles

    • “Six Characters in Search of a Legacy,” Pirandello Society of America 33 (2020-21).
    • ​“Poor Things: Naturalistic Props and the Death of American Material Culture in Sam Shepard’s Action,” Journal of American Drama and Theatre 25.2 (Spring 2013).
    • ​“Zen and the Art of Self-Negation in Samuel Beckett’s Not I,” Comparative Drama 46.3 (Fall 2012).
    • ​“Improvising New Rituals for the Bacchae,” Theatre/Practice 1.1 (Spring 2012).
    • ​"Upholstered Realism and the Great Futurist Railroad: Theatrical ‘Train Wrecks' and the Return of the Repressed," Performance Research 15.2 (Summer 2010).
    • ​“Loco Motion: Railway Perception, Relativity, and the Stage,” Performance Research 12.2 (Summer 2007).
    • ​“’A Hole in the Paper Sky’: Psycho-Scenographic Rifts in Pirandello’s Henry IV,” Modern Drama 48.1 (Spring 2005).

    • Dramatic literature
    • Urban studies
    • Travel
    • Perception
    • Philosophy
    • Performance studies

    • Chair of the Advising and Registration Committee
    • Editorial Board of Trinity University Press
    • Starting Strong QEP Implementation Team
    • Reading TUgether Selection Committee
    • Mellon Steering Committee
    • Association for Theatre in Higher Education
    • American Society for Theatre Research
    • Performance Studies international