Carrie J. Cole teaches Integrative Theater Studies in the Department of Theater and Dance at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. Her scholarship focuses on American theatre, performance and popular culture (specifically staging science fiction); translation and adaptation for the stage; and audience and fan studies. Her chapter “Solving for x when x is the Audience” appeared in Hollywood Chemistry: When Science Met Entertainment published by the American Chemical Society. She co-authored (with Jen Gunnels) “Culturally Mapping Universes: Fan Production as Ethnographic Fragments” for Transformative Works and Cultures (TWC), and is co-editor of the textbook Popular Entertainment: Performance and Spectacle, Culture and Competition. Artistic projects include collaborating on the premiere of Desiree Dunbar's AstroDance Project in Flandrau Planetarium at the University of Arizona, premiering a new stage adaptation of H. G. Wells’ War of the Worlds in the planetarium through Arizona Theatre Company’s Café Bohemia, and devising ELECTRIAD, a play exploring the repercussions of war. Dr. Cole has curated and directed Flash Play Festivals at the International Conference of the Fantastic in the Arts and the Other Words Literary Conference

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