Diana R. Paulin has a joint appointment in American Studies and English.  As an undergraduate, she majored in English and American literature at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. She then earned her MA in English literature at the University of Washington in Seattle and a Ph.D. in English and American literature at Stanford University. Her fields of interest include late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century U.S. fiction and drama, African American literature and drama, and American Studies. She has worked more specifically on representations of miscegenation, race and sexuality, performance studies, cultural studies, comparative ethnic literature and disability studies. Paulin has taught courses on African American literature, representations of miscegenation in fiction, drama, performance studies and Afro-Asian American intersectionality. She has published articles on racial representation, miscegenation, and performance (William Dean Howells, Louisa May Alcott, Spike Lee, Octavia Butler, and Bartely Campbell) in Theatre Journal, Cultural Critique and The Journal of Drama Theory and Criticism, as well as chapters in the Critical Anthology of African AmericanPerformance and Theater History and in White Women in Racialized Spaces. She is completing her book manuscript, Staging Miscegenation.