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Noe MontezAssociate Professor, Theater Studies
Biography
Noe Montez (he/him) is the author of Memory, Transitional Justice, and Theatre in Postdictatorship Argentina. He is also the editor of the translation of Argentine playwright Santiago Loza's work, titled Nothing to Do with Love and Other Plays, (co-edited with Samuel Buggeln) and the Routledge Companion to Latine Theatre and Performance (co-edited with Olga Sanchez Saltveit). Currently, he is writing a monograph about political activism in contemporary U.S. sports and completing a project on the intersections between Critical University Studies and the discipline of Theatre and Performance Studies. From 2018-2021, Noe served as editor of Theatre Topics. In 2027, he will begin work as series editor for the University of Iowa’s Studies in Theatre History and Culture book series. He currently serves as the American Society for Theatre Research's (ASTR) Vice President for Publications.
Other publications include articles in Theatre Topics, Theatre History Studies, American Theatre, Latin American Theatre Review, Texas Theatre Journal, New England Theatre Journal, Howlround, and The Journal of Religion and Theatre. He has also contributed essays to the edited collections Public Theatres and Theatre Publics; Seeking Common Ground: Latinx and Latin American Performance; Sporting Performances: Politics and Play; Teaching Theatre/Theory in Today's Theatre Studio, Classroom, and Communities; and Celebrating Latino Folklore: An Encyclopedia of Cultural Traditions.
Montez is the recipient of the Association for Theatre in Higher Education’s (ATHE) 2025 Sustained Achievement Award for Distinguished Service to the Field; ATHE’s 2025 Edited Works Prize; a Wallace Foundation grant for the project, Defining Archival Logics for Latine Theatre; the Mid-America Theatre Conference’s Robert A. Schanke Award; honorable mention for ASTR’s Translation Prize; an ASTR grant for convening the 4th Symposium on PhD Programs in Theatre and Performance Studies, as well as institutional fellowships and awards for scholarship, teaching, and service.
Noe has presented his academic work for several organizations and conferences including: the American Society for Theatre Research, the Association for Theatre in Higher Education, the Modern Language Association, the American Studies Association, the Latin American Studies Association, the Hemispheric Institute of Politics and Performance, the Comparative Drama Conference, the Mid-America Theatre Conference, the Latinx Theatre Commons, and Situating August Wilson in the Canon and the Curriculum Conference at Howard University. As ATHE's Vice President for Professional Development, he authored the association's tenure and promotion guidelines.
Noe has presented his academic work for several organizations and conferences including: the American Society for Theatre Research, the Association for Theatre in Higher Education, the Modern Language Association, the American Studies Association, the Latin American Studies Association, the Hemispheric Institute of Politics and Performance, the Comparative Drama Conference, the Mid-America Theatre Conference, the Latinx Theatre Commons, and Situating August Wilson in the Canon and the Curriculum Conference at Howard University. As ATHE's Vice President for Professional Development, he authored the association's tenure and promotion guidelines.
Dr. Montez is a freelance dramaturg, director, and actor who worked with Theater Emory, Cleveland Play House Cleveland Public Theatre, Theatre Ninjas, Phoenix Theatre, Sleeping Weazel, Fifth Floor Collective, Tufts University, Indiana University, and the Bloomington Playwright's Project. He has served on the board of directors for Boston's Sleeping Weazel Theater and Company One Theatre.
Professor Montez is deeply engaged in research about graduate education in Theatre and Performance Studies. He is currently conducting a study about the career trajectories and job placement patterns of every Theatre and Performances Studies PhD produced in the United States from 2011 to present.
He holds a PhD and MA from Indiana University, and a BA from Grinnell College.
He holds a PhD and MA from Indiana University, and a BA from Grinnell College.
