Kyle Gillette, Ph.D.

Kyle Gillette Ph.D., supports the Provost in carrying out the University’s teaching and learning mission by:

Facilitating Trinity’s general education curriculum with the academic deans, chairs, advisors, and First Year Experience Coordinator.
Developing strategies to enhance the student academic experience.
Serving as the primary Academic Affairs liaison to Student Affairs. The Associate Provost collaborates with the Office of the Dean of Students to advance student retention, persistence, and resilience and to coordinate interventions for students with academic or personal challenges.
Shepherding programs to foster constructive dialogue and listening across differences, such as The Conversation at Trinity.
Overseeing the Academic Honor Council, academic programs for New Tiger Orientation, and Physical Education courses as well as the Health Professions, Pre-Law, and Lecturers and Visiting Scholars committees.
Planning academic ceremonies, including New Student Convocation, the Honors Awards Convocation, and Commencement, with colleagues across divisions.
Supervising the First Year Experience Coordinator, Director for the Center for Experiential Learning and Career Success, and Senior Director for the Office of Academic Success, who oversees Advising, Student Accommodation Services, Coaching, the Writing Center, and the Quantitative Reasoning and Skills Center.

Education

Books

The Invisible City: Travel, Attention and Performance (London and New York: Routledge, 2020).
Thornton Wilder’s The Skin of Our Teeth, Fourth Wall (London and New York: Routledge, 2016).
Railway Travel in Modern Theatre: Transforming the Space and Time of the Stage (Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2014).

Chapters

“Visible Cities: Calvino in Performance,” Invisible Cities and the Urban Imagination ed. Benjamin Linder (Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022).
“’My Portrait Come to Life’: Visions of Self in Pirandello’s Henry IV” in Pirandello’s Visual Philosophy, ed. Lisa Sarti and Michael Subialka (Madison, NJ: Farleigh Dickinson University Press, 2017).
"Realism"; "Imagined Cities: after Calvino"; and "Triptych" in Imagined Theatres: Writing for a Theoretical Stage, ed. Daniel Sack (London and New York: Routledge, 2017).

Articles

“Six Characters in Search of a Legacy,” Pirandello Society of America 33 (2020-21).
“Poor Things: Naturalistic Props and the Death of American Material Culture in Sam Shepard’s Action,” Journal of American Drama and Theatre 25.2 (Spring 2013).
“Zen and the Art of Self-Negation in Samuel Beckett’s Not I,” Comparative Drama 46.3 (Fall 2012).
“Improvising New Rituals for the Bacchae,” Theatre/Practice 1.1 (Spring 2012).
"Upholstered Realism and the Great Futurist Railroad: Theatrical ‘Train Wrecks' and the Return of the Repressed," Performance Research 15.2 (Summer 2010).
“Loco Motion: Railway Perception, Relativity, and the Stage,” Performance Research 12.2 (Summer 2007).
“’A Hole in the Paper Sky’: Psycho-Scenographic Rifts in Pirandello’s Henry IV,” Modern Drama 48.1 (Spring 2005).