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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
- 3 Article
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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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From Freakshow to Sitcom: Metatheatrical (Dis)Continuities in Contemporary African American Plays
Thomas, J., 2021, In: Journal for Literary and Intermedial Crossings. 6, 2, p. d1-24 24 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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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 › peer-review
Prizes
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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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Multilingual Master Award for Literary Studies
Thomas, Jade (Recipient), 24 Feb 2021
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
Activities
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(Re)playing Slavery in Jeremy O. Harris’s "Slave Play" (2018) and Suzan-Lori Parks’s "White Noise" (2019)
Jade Thomas (Speaker) & Ilka Saal (Speaker)
31 May 2022 → 3 Jun 2022Activity: Talk or presentation › Talk or presentation at a conference
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WOLEC seminar over de hedendaagse roman
Jade Thomas (Participant)
20 May 2022Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participation in workshop, seminar
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The Narrative Potential of Music in Michael R. Jackson's Meta-Musical "A Strange Loop"
Jade Thomas (Speaker)
28 Jun 2022 → 30 Jun 2022Activity: Talk or presentation › Talk or presentation at a conference
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(Re)Staging/Playing Slavery in the 21st-Century: A Case-Study of Jeremy O. Harris’s "Slave Play" (2018)
Jade Thomas (Speaker)
27 Jan 2022Activity: Talk or presentation › Talk or presentation at a workshop/seminar
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Workshop on Affect Theory and Colonial/Postcolonial Literatures
Jade Thomas (Participant)
28 Mar 2022Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participation in workshop, seminar
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