Dr. Madeline Fanton is a theater and performance studies scholar whose research examines the relationship between performance, memory, and nationalism in the United States after the First World War. Her current book project, “Acts of Forgetting: World War I and Nationalism in Performance,” traces the ways that memories of World War I are both repeated and forgotten through theatrical texts, productions, films, and public spaces, influencing images of citizenship in the past and present. Her study of the National WWI Memorial in Washington DC is under contract in the edited collection, The Routledge Companion to Public Spaces of Performance, Mourning, and Remembrance. Madeline’s secondary research interests are likewise rooted in the early 20th century but focus on the intersection of nationalism and maternity in the works of Marion Craig Wentworth and Angelina Welde Grimke. Madeline is also an active director and artist-scholar, with a focus on dramatic works by and about women, recently directing works by Kate Hamill, Larissa FastHorse, and Chiara Atik.