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Jade Thomas holds an MA in English and German Literature from Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB). She is the recipient of both the BAAHE Thesis Prize, and the Multilingual Master Award for Literary Studies for her MA thesis on the posthumanist dimensions in the theater of American playwright Sam Shepard. As of November 2021, she is a fellow of the Research Foundation – Flanders (FWO) affiliated to VUB. Her PhD project is called “Representing Blackness: Metatheater and Genre Remediation in 21st-Century African American Plays” and scrutinizes playtexts by Jackie Sibblies Drury, Jeremy O. Harris, Aleshea Harris, and Michael R. Jackson.
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Projects
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FWOTM1084: Representing Blackness: Metatheater and Genre Remediation in 21st-Century African American Plays
1/11/21 → 31/10/23
Project: Fundamental
Research output
- 1 Article
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Remediating the culture industry: Sam Shepard’s political play States of Shock
Thomas, J., 15 Sep 2021, In : English Text Construction. 14, 1, p. 94-111 18 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Prizes
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Multilingual Master Award for Literary Studies
Jade Thomas (Recipient), 24 Feb 2021
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
Activities
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Doctoral Specialist Course: "Text, Image, Sound: Intermedial Crossings in Twentieth-Century Mass Media"
Jade Thomas (Participant)28 Apr 2021 → 30 Apr 2021Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participation in workshop, seminar
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Performing Blackness in Contemporary African American Metatheater: Genre and Media Innovations on the Axis of Political Comment and Theater Aesthetics
Jade Thomas (Speaker)13 Jul 2021Activity: Talk or presentation › Talk or presentation at a conference
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Narrating Experiences of Blackness in Michael R. Jackson's Meta-Musical "A Strange Loop"
Jade Thomas (Speaker)15 Nov 2021 → 17 Nov 2021Activity: Talk or presentation › Talk or presentation at a conference
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Representations of Race in African American Contemporary Metatheater: Suzan-Lori Parks’s "Venus" (1996) and Jackie Sibblies Drury’s "Fairview" (2018)
Jade Thomas (Invited speaker)23 Jun 2021Activity: Talk or presentation › Talk or presentation at a workshop/seminar
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‘I have to go with what my instincts tell me’: A Posthumanist Perspective on Cultural Industry Representations in Selected Plays by Sam Shepard
Jade Thomas (Speaker)17 Dec 2020Activity: Talk or presentation › Talk or presentation at a conference
Press / Media
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"Schrijven is als koken": Een gesprek met Passa Porta directeur en VUB Arts and Humanities Fellow Ilke Froyen
Birgit Van Puymbroeck & Jade Thomas
4/06/21
2 Media contributions
Press/Media: Other
Thesis
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A Posthumanist Perspective on Cultural Industry Representations in Selected Plays by Sam Shepard
Author: Thomas, J., 2020Supervisor: Collard, C. (Promotor)
Student thesis: Master's Thesis