Research
During Gale’s first year of the PhD, Gale presented papers in progress from their PhD research in the New Scholars Forum at the IFTR (International Federation of Theatre Research) Conference 2025 at the University of Cologne on June 13th, 2025, and in the Performance, Identity and Community Working Group at the TaPRA (Theatre and Performance Research Association) 2025 Conference at the University of Warwick on August 29th, 2025.
Gale explored signifiers of Jewishness as connotations of illness in Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes by Tony Kushner with Susan Sontag’s Illness as Metaphor at Goldsmiths University of London in Performance and Medicine Taught by Anna Furse, Fall 2021
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Nosferatu: A Performance and History of The Antisemite’s Jew proposes that the vampire Nosferatu is a performance of antisemitic fantasy. Researching Vampire and Plague Histories in correlation with historical and modern European Antisemitism, the essay identifies Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror (1922) as a performative foreshadowing of continuous dehumanization. Replicating the belief system of the author rather than the Jewish people themselves, Gale utilizes performance critical theory and race theory to extricate the racist history that informs Gothic Vampires.
Written for Masters of Performance Making in Performance and Medicine taught by Anna Furse in Winter 2021/2022.