D. J. Hopkins
Assistant Professor

Head of Theatre MA Program
Theatre History, Critical Studies
Dramaturgy

Office: DA 217
Phone: 594-7238
dhopkins@mail.sdsu.edu

D.J. Hopkins is an Assistant Professor, Head of Theatre Studies, and Director of the MA Program in Theatre at San Diego State University. His publications have appeared in TheatreForum, Theatre Journal, Theatre Topics, and collections including Shakespeare After Mass Media, Performing Transversally, and Rematerializing Shakespeare. His book City / Stage / Globe: Performance and Space in Shakespeare's London is forthcoming from Routledge.

He is currently working as co-editor on a collection of essays entitled Text and the City: Performing and Writing Urban Space. As dramaturg Hopkins has worked with Tina Landau, Joe Chaiken, Robert Woodruff, Chay Yew, Greg Gunter, Jose Rivera, Naomi Iizuka, Les Waters, Chuck Mee, and numerous other writers, directors, and theatre artists. He is co-editor of Review, the online publication of the Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas.

Hopkins holds an MFA in Dramaturgy and a PhD in Theatre Studies, both from the University of California, San Diego.