Professor
M.A., University of Virginia; Ph.D., University of Bristol, England

Phone: 574 631-7171
E-mail: Mark.C.Pilkinton.1@nd.edu

Pilkinton has most recently completed the book entitled Washington Hall at Notre Dame: Crossroads of the University, 1864-2004 published by the University of Notre Dame Press in 2011. He previously edited Records of Early English Drama: Bristol (Toronto, 1997), the thirteenth volume in the REED series, and has written articles and reviews for journals such as Comparative Drama, Modern Drama, Theatre and Religion, Medium Aevum, Essays in Theatre/Etudes Théâtrales, and Theatre Notebook. Founding Director of Theatre AUM (1975), the production arm of the Department of Theatre at Auburn University at Montgomery (Alabama), he also continues to direct for the FTT season, including most recently Artaud’s Spurt of Blood in 2008. He is founding director of the New Playwrights Workshop (1998), a production outlet for student-written one-act plays, and served as chair of the department for thirteen years between 1984 and 2003.