Sharon Mazer

Sharon Mazer is an academic in New Zealand who is professor of theatre and performance studies at Auckland University of Technology. She is known for her book, Professional Wrestling: Sport and Spectacle, and as a researcher of popular performance.[1]

Academic career

After completing a BA at Reed College in Portland, Oregon in 1977, Mazer worked for some years as a theatre director. She returned to study, graduating with an MA from University of California, Los Angeles in 1985 and then moving to New York to study at Columbia University for a MPhil in 1989 and a PhD in 1991.[2]

Mazer moved to New Zealand in 1994 to lecture at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch. She joined Auckland University of Technology in 2014, where she was promoted to full professor in November 2019.[3]

Selected works

Books
  • Mazer, Sharon (February 1998), Professional wrestling: Sport and spectacle, University Press of Mississippi (published 1998), ISBN 1578060214
  • Mazer, Sharon, ed. (8 February 2019), The intricate art of actually caring, and other New Zealand plays, Seagull Books (published 2018), ISBN 978-0-85742-340-5
  • Mazer, Sharon (4 February 2019), I have loved me a man: The life & times of Mika, Auckland University Press (published 2018), ISBN 978-1-77671-010-2

Articles

References
  1. "Sharon Mazer". Auckland University of Technology. Retrieved 30 December 2020.
  2. "Professor Sharon Mazer". Auckland University of Technology. Retrieved 30 December 2020.
  3. "New Professors and Associate Professors". Auckland University of Technology. 7 November 2019. Retrieved 30 December 2020.


This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.