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Dr. Elisabeth Hostetter is a full professor at Rowan University. She teaches script analysis, dramatic literature, contemporary world theatre and acting for non-majors, and occasionally directs for the mainstage Rowan season. Edwin Mellen Press published her book, The Berlin State Theater Under the Nazi Regime, in 2004. She is currently working on a cultural history of the Karl May theatre festival that takes place in Bad Segeberg Germany each summer.

Professional directing and acting projects include: Love Letters to Stalin, Who Will Carry the Word?, and Emmy Goring Stands by her Man (Theater Catalyst); The Foreigner and The Lion in Winter  and The Crucible (Ritz Theatre, Oaklyn, NJ); The Women (The Palmer Project); The Smell of the Kill (Players Club of Swarthmore); and Night of the Iguana (South Camden Theatre Company).

She is a co-founder of the In Other Words Project that promotes recent translations of politically relevant work from other countries. Her interest in German theatre earned her a National Endowment for the Humanities Award to study Bertolt Brecht in Berlin. She has toured theatres in Western Europe, Southeast Asia, Greece and Turkey.

She received her Ph.D. in theatre history from the University of Missouri, her M.A. from the University of Texas at Austin, and her B.F.A. from Virginia Commonwealth University.