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Dr. Robert Skloot
Department of Theatre and Drama
University of Madison-Wisconsin
117 Bascom Hall
500 Lincoln Drive
Madison, WI 53706
Phone: 608-262-5246
Email: skloot@mail.bascom.wisc.edu
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Robert Skloot (Ph.D., Minnesota) joined the University of Wisconsin-Madison theatre and drama
faculty in 1968. He teaches courses in theatre literature and serves as a staff director for the
University Theatre. His research interests focus on contemporary drama, especially on the subjects
of the Holocaust and genocide. He is the editor of The Theatre of The Holocaust (vol. 1, 1982;
vol. 2, 1999) and author of The Darkness We Carry: The Drama of The Holocaust (1988).
Skloot has published numerous essays, has won several teaching awards, is a member of the U.W.
Teaching Academy, and has served as Fulbright Professor of Drama in Israel, Austria and Chile.
He was chair of the Department of Theatre and Drama from 1990 to 1993.
Funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, Skloot has directed seminars for high school
teachers on the subject of "The Theatre and the Holocaust." He holds a joint appointment with the
Jewish Studies Program and serves as its director. In 1996, Skloot was appointed Associate Vice
Chancellor for Academic Affairs with particular oversight for undergraduate education issues.
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