Nena Couch
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Nena Couch was promoted to full Professor in July 2003. Joined by dancer Ligia Pinheiro, she gave her professorial lecture on eighteenth-century dance reconstruction, which she illustrated, appropriately enough, in dance before a large and appreciative audience in OSU’s Faculty Club Grand Lounge. She presented “Teaching Delsarte in Tennessee: A Case Study” at the 2003 Comparative Drama Conference and revised that paper for publication Text & Presentation: Journal of the Comparative Drama Conference as “Pauline Sherwood Townsend: Teaching Delsarte in Tennessee.” Her essays on Sidney Kingsley and his plays Men in White, Dead End, Detective Story, and Darkness at Noon were published in Companion to American Drama edited by Jackson Bryer.

For the Theatre Library Association Plenary session at the annual conference of the American Society for Theatre Research/Theatre Library Association in Durham, North Carolina in November, Nena presented “Choreographing the Document: Alexander Pope’s The Rape of the Lock.” Nena served as period movement coach for The Ohio State University Department of Theatre’s 2003 production of Oxygen. In late September, she attended the Sidney Kingsley/Madge Evans Awards in New York sponsored by the Dramatists Guild. The 2003 awards went to playwright August Wilson and actress Elizabeth Franz.