Post-doctoral Fellow in Critical Writing and Theatre Arts, Ph.D. University of Hawai`i at Manoa (Theatre) 2000
Mera Moore began studying Asian theatre as an undergraduate at Ohio State University, where in her honors thesis she translated _Yishuja_ (The Artist), a 1923 Chinese spoken-drama comedy, into English, along with a historical analysis of the play. During graduate school in Hawai`i, she studied immigrant and ethnic American literature and theatre, completing her dissertation on the political theatre of immigrant playwright Ursule Molinaro, for which she earned the Tanahashi Peace Fellowship. Since coming to teach at Penn, she has been publishing articles on immigrant playwrights and filmmakers. She is currently making videos of her original dramatic
