Joseph Roach Honored with ASECS Excellence in Mentorship Award

The Koerner Center is pleased to announce that Joseph Roach, Sterling Professor Emeritus of Theater and professor emeritus of English, has been selected as a recipient of this year’s American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Graduate Student Caucus Excellence in Mentorship Award. The award recognizes outstanding advising and mentorship of graduate students in the field of eighteenth-century studies. As part of the honor, Professor Roach has been invited to participate in a professional development panel organized by the Graduate Student Caucus at the Society’s annual meeting in 2027.

Professor Roach retired after forty years of teaching, research, and administration in theater, performance studies, and English literature at Yale University. After earning his BA at the University of Kansas, MA at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne (UK), and PhD at Cornell University, he went on to chair performing arts programs at Sweet Briar College, Washington University in St. Louis, Northwestern University, and NYU. He came to Yale in 1997 as chair of the Theater Studies program. Recognized by a Lifetime Scholarship Award from the American Society for Theatre Research, a Distinguished Achievement Award from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Oscar Brockett Prize for Outstanding Teaching from the Association for Theatre in Higher Education, and an Honorary Doctor of Letters from the University of Warwick (UK), he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2012.