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Piia Mustam\u00e4ki<\/b> is a scholar of travel narratives, theater and cultural and performance studies. She was awarded a Fulbright scholarship for graduate study in the US. Her dissertation developed a theory of masochism as an interpretive lens into the effects of unequally distributed social power.\u00a0 Her articles have been published in <\/span>the Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism<\/span><\/i> and <\/span>Nordic Theater Studies.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n Before joining NYU Abu Dhabi, Piia taught writing at NYU Shanghai and NYU\u2019s Liberal Studies.\u00a0 She was a Visiting Assistant Professor of Modern and Contemporary Drama at Oberlin College and has taught numerous classes at Barnard College\u2019s Theater Department, including World Theater; Drama, Theater, Theory; and American Drama in the 1990s and a class at Columbia University\u2019s MFA program in theater.<\/span><\/p>\n Originally from Finland, Piia has lived in 6 other countries and is an avid traveler.\u00a0 Her travel writing has been published in <\/span>Punctuate<\/span><\/i>, <\/span>Matador Network, <\/span><\/i>and <\/span>Culture-ist. <\/span><\/i>\u00a0Her NYU Abu Dhabi First-year Writing Seminars concentrate on travel narratives, theories of cultural encounters and urban centers as sites of gender and cultural performance.<\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Piia Mustam\u00e4ki is a scholar of travel narratives, theater and cultural and performance studies. She was awarded a Fulbright scholarship for graduate study in the US. Her dissertation developed a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":1556,"template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[10,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1543","people","type-people","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-anthropocene","category-writing-languages-and-pedagogy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nyuad.nyu.edu\/researchkitchens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/people\/1543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nyuad.nyu.edu\/researchkitchens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/people"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nyuad.nyu.edu\/researchkitchens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/people"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nyuad.nyu.edu\/researchkitchens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nyuad.nyu.edu\/researchkitchens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nyuad.nyu.edu\/researchkitchens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nyuad.nyu.edu\/researchkitchens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}