Mary Elizabeth Anderson is a new Visiting Instructor in the Department of Theatre, where she teaches courses in theatre history, musical theatre history, script analysis, dramaturgy and acting. As an artist-scholar, Mary creates performances and writes articles that investigate the relationships between “humans” and “nature” in post-colonial landscapes, with a particular interest in the ways that wild things and wild places resist and defy historical projects of settlement. During 2007-8, she was a Fulbright Scholar in Tasmania, Australia, where she developed two new performance pieces - Horse Opera! and Moving Mountains - and was Honorary Research Associate in the School of Geography and Environmental Studies at the University of Tasmania. Mary has an M.A. in Theatre Arts (CSUS 2003), an M.F.A. in Dramatic Art - Acting (UC Davis 2007), and is currently finalizing revisions on her dissertation for the PhD in Performance Studies (UC Davis, ABD), entitled “Transposing Place: The Natural and the Migrant in Site-Specific Performance in Australia.” This year at UWF, she will devise a new performance with students from the Center for Fine and Performing Arts, By Air, By Land, By Sea: Performing Place in Australia, for the Genius Loci series. In February, she directs Louis Nowra's Cosi for the 2008-9 Theatre season.