Christopher Krejci

Associate Professor


Department

English

Courses Taught
  • ENGL 1301, Composition I (Temple College, Baton Rouge Community College)
  • ENGL 1302, Composition II (Temple College, Baton Rouge Community College)
  • ENGL 2322, British Literature I (Temple College)
  • ENGL 2323, British Literature II (Temple College)
  • ENGL 2327, American Literature I (Temple College)
  • ENGL 2351, Mexican American Literature (Temple College)
  • HUMN 2223, Western Humanities II (Baton Rouge Community College)
  • THTR 1020, Introduction to Theatre (Louisiana State University)
  • THTR 1025, Acting I (Louisiana State University)
  • THTR 2028, Introduction to Dramatic Literature (Louisiana State University)
  • THTR 3900, Special Topics in Performance (Louisiana State University)
Education
  • Post-Doctoral Studies in Curriculum and Instruction, Louisiana State University, 2012-2014 
  • Ph.D. in Theatre History and Dramatic Literature, Louisiana State University, 2011
  • Master of Liberal Arts in English Literature, St. Edward’s University, 2004
  • B.A. in Theatre, St. Edward’s University, 1999
Teaching Experience
  • Temple College, Associate Professor of English, Fall 2015—present
  • Baton Rouge Community College, Adjunct Instructor of English and Humanities, Spring 2014—Spring 2015
  • Zachary Community School District, English and Humanities Teacher (GT Grades 9-12), Fall 2012—Spring 2015
  • Zachary Community School District, Theatre Teacher (GT Grades 1-12), Fall 2008—Spring 2012
  • Louisiana State University, Board of Regents Fellow, Fall 2004—Spring 2008
Professional Publications
  • “Schrödinger’s Craft” (short story). NonBinary Review #36: Heredity, Zoetic Press, forthcoming.
  • “Schrödinger’s Craft” (play). Perfect Glitch, Script Works, 2021.
  • “Review: The Methuen Drama Anthology of American Women Playwrights: 1970-2020, edited by Wesley Brown and Aimée K. Michel.” Early College Folio, vol. 1, no. 2, 2022, article 11.
  • “Time’s Up! Confronting Toxic Masculinity in British Literature I,” with Beverly Van Note and Kimberly George.  Two-Year College English Association Southwest Region Newsletter, Fall 2020.
  • Challenging Common Core Language Arts Lessons: Activities and Extensions for Gifted and Advanced Learners in Grade 6. Advance Curriculum from the Center for Gifted Education at William and Mary, Prufrock Press, 2017.
  • “Session 13: Wormhole 56C.” Cricket Radio: Ten Short Plays for Broadcast. Script Works, 2006.
Professional Performances
  • “Schrödinger’s Craft” (recording of short story). Alphanumeric Podcast, Zoetic Press, forthcoming.
  • “Schrödinger’s Craft: An Unboxing Video” (film), Austin Playfest, Austin Playhouse, Nov. 11-15, 202.1
  • “Schrödinger’s Craft” (multi-platform production) Out of Ink 2021: Perfect Glitch, Script Works, May 6-9, 2021.
  • “Soundtrack for the End of the World” and “Everything Old Is New Again,” The 3rd Austin One-Minute Play Festival, Austin Playhouse Theatre, Austin, TX, August 22-24, 2016.
  • “The Right to Bear” and “Lewis and Clark Ride the White Horses.” The 2nd Austin One-Minute Play Festival, Ground Floor Theatre, Austin, TX, August 17-19, 2015.
  • “The Planet Earth Show,” with Gretchen Stein and Derek Mudd. Playmakers of Baton Rouge, The Louisiana Environmental Education Commission, Spring Tour, Central and Southern Louisiana, February 27- April 19, 2015.
  • “The Tragical, Comical, Historical Adventures of Pinocchio.” Patti Pace Performance Festival, Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, GA, February 1, 2013.
  • “Donne with Death.” The D World Book Encyclopedia of 1959, Hopkins Black Box, Baton Rouge, LA, April 24-29, 2012.
  • “The Tragical, Comical, Historical Adventures of Pinocchio.” Playmakers of Baton Rouge, Reilly Theatre, Baton Rouge, LA, March 1-4, 2012.
  • “Spreadsheets,” with Derek Mudd. Hopkins Black Box, Baton Rouge, LA, March 10-14, 2010.
  • “Jazz Funeral for the Arts,” co-producer (live protest performance featured on LPBS with over 250 participating artists/arts patrons from across the state). Baton Rouge, LA, April 1, 2009.
  • The Hobbit, director. Playmakers of Baton Rouge, Baton Rouge Community College, Magnolia Performing Arts Theatre, Baton Rouge, LA, October 2-4, 2009.
  • “Dunce Upon a Dime,” director. Playmakers of Baton Rouge, Baton Rouge, LA, Summer 2009.
  • Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day, director. Playmakers of Baton Rouge Manship Theatre, Baton Rouge, LA, September 12-21, 2008.
  • “Planet Nobuk,” director. Playmakers of Baton Rouge, Louisiana Summer Library Tour, LA, Summer 2008.
  • Outworks Festival of New LGBTQ Plays, founding festival coordinator (2006-2008). LSU Department of Theatre, Baton Rouge, LA, 2006-2015.
  • “Where Things Are,” director. LSU Department of Theatre, Baton Rouge, LA, Outworks Festival, Spring 2008.
  • “Circling the Drain,” director. LSU Department of Theatre, Baton Rouge, LA, Outworks Festival, Spring 2007.
  • “The Jelly Jam Cycle.” Mi Casa Es Su Teatro, Austin, TX, FronteraFest 2005.
  • “Kidnapped by Craigslist,” director. People’s Improv Theater, New York, NY, Workshop Production, Spring 2006.
  • “Down Baby Down,” director. LSU Department of Theatre, Baton Rouge, LA, Outworks Festival, Spring 2006.
  • “Radio Warp: Destination.” SlamInternational, Howl Festival, New York, NY, August 21-26, 2005.
  • “I Love Lysistrata” (Austin Against War Benefit). Public Idiot Theatre, Penn Field, Austin, TX, Spring 2003.
  • “Flannery, the Undertaker, and the Resurrection.” Script Works Salon, Austin, TX, Fall 2002.
  • “Consumers.” Shard Live Performance Collective, Vortex Theater, Austin, TX, August 8-18, 2002.
  • “Psychodramatherapy” (awarded “Best of Fest Wild Card”). Short Fringe Festival, Austin, TX, FronteraFest 2001.
  • “Limerick Plays.” Short Fringe Festival, Hyde Park Theatre, Austin, TX, FronteraFest 2001.
  • “Lipsynch.” Anakreontic Theatre Lab, John Henry Faulk Theater, Austin, TX, MOMFest 2000.
  • “Jenny! A Musical (awarded “Best of Fest Audience Pick”). Hyde Park Theatre, Austin, TX, FronteraFest 2000.
Professional Presentations
  • “The Very Model of Modern Media: Experimenting with Models of Media During COVID-19 to Maximize Student Engagement and Success Online (with Heather Chandler, Kim George, and Bev Van Note), Two-Year College English Virtual Conference, TYCA-SW, Oct. 22, 2021.
  • “Confronting the Male Gaze in The Way of the World.Time’s Up: Confronting Toxic Masculinity in British Literature I through Active Learning, Two-Year College English Association Southwest Annual Conference, Conroe, TX, October 24-26, 2019.
  • Literature and Composition Assignment Swap, chair. TCCTA Annual Convention, Houston, TX February 2, 2019.
  • Making the Co-requisite Model Work. Roundtable, TCCTA Annual Convention, Houston, TX February 2, 2019
  • “Edwin Forrest and the ‘Art of Manliness,’” with Derek Mudd. Words Made Flesh: The Body as Cross-Cultural Text, South Central Modern Language Association Annual Conference, San Antonio, TX, October 11-14, 2018.
  • Spectacular Transgressions, co-chair with John Fletcher. Multidisciplinary Roundtable, Association for Theatre in Higher Education Annual Conference, Las Vegas, NV, August 3-6, 2017.
  • “Challenging Secondary Gifted Students: Developing a Sense of Self through English Language Arts.” Summer Institute, Center for Gifted Education, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA, June 27-28, 2016.
  • Collaborative Pedagogy, chair. Roundtable, Southern States Communication Association Annual Conference, Austin, TX, April 6-10, 2016.
  • “Developing a Sense of Self through Reading and Analysis.” Texas Association for Gifted Teachers Annual Conference, San Antonio, TX, December 2-4, 2015.
  • Performative Pedagogy, co-chair with Lisa Flanagan. Roundtable, Southern States Communication Association Annual Conference, New Orleans, LA, April 3-6, 2014.
  • Transformative Pedagogy. Roundtable, Southern States Communication Association, Louisville, KY, April 10-14, 2013.
  • “A Market of Transgression.” LGBTQ Focus Group, Association for Theatre in Higher Education, Chicago, IL, August 11-14, 2011.
  • Alive and Kicking (Back): Current Trends in LGBT and Q Research, co-chair with Brent Stansell, Roundtable, LGBTQ Focus Group, Association for Theatre in Higher Education Annual Conference, Los Angeles, CA, August 1-6, 2010.
  • “Staging Children’s Literature.” Baton Rouge Community College, Baton Rouge, LA, October 2, 2009.
  • Border Crossings/Crossers, chair. Interdisciplinary Studies in the Humanities, South Central Modern Language Association Annual Conference, San Antonio, TX, November 6-8, 2008.
  • Being Apart, Acting Together: Difficult Dialogues at the Intersections of Identities. Roundtable, Association for Theatre in Higher Education, Denver, CO, July 28- August 3, 2008.
  • “A Stage of Infinite Possibility.” Mid-America Theatre Conference, Kansas City, MO, February 28- March 2, 2008.
  • Exploring Culture and Identity on Stage, chair. Special Session, South Central Modern Language Association Annual Conference, Dallas, TX, October 26-28, 2006.
  • “Passion in the Letters of Rupert Brooke and Jim Strachey,” with Derek Mudd. Special Session, South Central Modern Language Association, Memphis, TN, November 1-3, 2007.
  • “Teaching, Performing, and Thinking Theatre at Louisiana State University Post-Katrina.” Theory and Criticism Focus Group, Association for Theatre in Higher Education, New Orleans, LA, July 24-29, 2007.
  • [How] Does Activist Performance Work? Seminar, American Society for Theatre Research, Phoenix, AZ, November 15-18, 2007.
  • LGBTQ Research. Working Group, American Society for Theatre Research, Toronto, Canada, November 10-13.
  • “Illusions of Utopia in Harry Kondoleon’s Saved or Destroyed.” Gay and Lesbian Caucus, South Central Modern Language Association, Houston, TX, October 27-29, 2005.
  • Performing the City. Roundtable, LGBTQ Focus Group Pre-conference, Association for Theatre in Higher Education, New York, NY, July 30, 2003.
Awards
  • Claudia and W.T. Barnhart Teacher of the Year Award, 2023-2024.
  • NISOD Excellence Award, National Institute for Staff and Organizational Development, 2023.
  • Caring Campus Faculty Member, Institute for Evidence Based Change, August 26, 2022.
  • NISOD Excellence Award, National Institute for Staff and Organizational Development, 2017.
Research Interests
  • Women and Gender Studies
  • LGBTQ Literature and Film
  • Satire and Comedy
  • Gothic Literature and Film
  • The Historical Avante-garde
  • Postmodern Theatre
Research Summary

I tell stories, teach others to tell stories, and read and write about how to do both better. I write fiction, poetry, and plays. I am a member of the Dramatist Guild, and my plays have been performed in New York, California, Texas, Louisiana, and Georgia.

Although my research crosses disciplinary boundaries, it usually revolves around issues related to identity and social justice. In my research, I look to literature, art, media, and theatre to explore art as activism and the aesthetic mediation and literary performance of identity and culture.  My graduate research focused on postmodern drama, activism, and theories of transgression. My most recent research considers ways in which literary, visual, and media texts across a number of contemporary and historical sites inscribe and subvert notions of masculinity and femininity.