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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 → 31/10/25
Project: Fundamental
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Queering the Musical Theater Tradition: Narrative Metareferentiality in Michael R. Jackson’s A Strange Loop
Thomas, J., 25 Mar 2024, Music and its Narrative Potential. Van Nerom, C., Peeters, A. & Bouckaert, B. (eds.). Brill, p. 161-179 18 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
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Conference Report: Experimental Writing in English (1945-2000): The Anti-Canon, Palace of the Academies, Brussels, 15-16 September 2022
Thomas, J., 15 Aug 2023, In: Journal for British and Irish Innovative Poetry. 15, 1, p. 1-8 8 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Other scientific journal contribution
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From Spoken Word to Playwriting: An Interview with Aleshea Harris
Thomas, J. & Faucourt, A., 3 Apr 2023, In: Miranda. 27, 11 p., 27.Research output: Contribution to journal › Other scientific journal contribution
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Re/playing slavery: The play within the play in Suzan-Lori Parks’s White Noise and Jeremy O. Harris’s Slave Play
Saal, I. & Thomas, J., 1 Mar 2023, In: IdeAs.. 21, 21, p. 1-15 15 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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When Playwrights Complicate Dramatic Form: Recent Developments in African American Plays of the 2010s
Thomas, J., 10 Aug 2022, Etcetera: Tijdschrift voor Podiumkunsten, 168.Research output: Contribution to specialist/vulgarizing publication › Article › Vulgarizing
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Prizes
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Fulbright Diversity Award
Thomas, Jade (Recipient), 22 Mar 2023
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
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Fulbright Grant for Graduate Studies and (Pre)Doctoral Research
Thomas, Jade (Recipient), 22 Mar 2023
Prize: Fellowship awarded competitively
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FWO grant for a short research visit abroad
Thomas, Jade (Recipient), 28 Jan 2022
Prize: Fellowship awarded competitively
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FWO grant for participation in a conference abroad
Thomas, Jade (Recipient), 11 May 2023
Prize: Fellowship awarded competitively
Activities
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Research Day of the Centre d’Enseignement et de Recherche en Etudes Postcoloniales - Centre for Literary and Intermedial Crossings
Elisabeth Bekers (Organiser), Delphine Munos (Organiser), Bénédicte Ledent (Chair), Janine Hauthal (Participant), Arvi Sepp (Participant), Diana Castilleja (Chair), Marcela Scibiorska (Participant), Hannah Van Hove (Participant), Cedric Van Dijck (Participant), Tara Brusselaers (Participant), Jade Thomas (Participant), Yanrong Wang (Participant), Yu Wang (Participant) & Hayat Boutarbouche (Participant)
21 Jun 2024Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participation in conference
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Recentring Form(s) in and of the Margins
Katrijn Van den Bossche (Organiser), Jade Thomas (Organiser), Janine Hauthal (Organiser), Elisabeth Bekers (Organiser) & Pieter Vermeulen (Organiser)
24 Apr 2024 → 26 Apr 2024Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participation in conference
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Allegory, Morality, Community? The Political Functions of Metatheatrical Strategies in Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’s Everybody (2017)
Jade Thomas (Speaker)
11 Jun 2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Talk or presentation at a conference
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Representing Blackness: Metatheater and Genre Remediation in 21st-Century African American Plays
Jade Thomas (Speaker)
8 Jun 2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Talk or presentation at a workshop/seminar
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Mediating the Politics of Empathy: Metatheatrical Roleplaying in Jackie Sibblies Drury’s We Are Proud to Present
Jade Thomas (Speaker)
25 Jul 2023Activity: 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