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Dr. Joseph R Falocco

  • Professor - English
  • Falocco, Joseph R. Bilingual Comedy of Errors, Texas State University, $2000. (Submitted: November 11, 2018, Funded: January 19, 2019 - May 15, 2019). Grant.
  • Falocco, Joe (Principal). Library Research Grant, Institutional (Higher Ed), $1363. (Funded: 2012). Grant.
  • Falocco, Joseph R. Funding for Student Actor Travel, Texas State University, $2050. (Submitted: October 15, 2022, Funded: December 15, 2022 - April 6, 2023). Grant.
  • Falocco, Joseph R (Principal). Shakespeare Without Fear: Teaching the Plays, National Endowment for Humanities, Federal, $63000. (Funded: October 1, 2017 - July 31, 2018). Grant.
  • Falocco, Joe (Principal). One-Time Only Diversity Grant, Equity and Access Committee Texas State University, Institutional (Higher Ed), $2500. (Submitted: February 1, 2015, Funded: June 1, 2017 - July 15, 2017). Grant.
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  • Falocco, J. R. (2024). “Performance Scripts of Richard III Throughout Theatrical History.” Shakespeare Bulletin, 42(3), 369–385.
  • Falocco, J. R. (2021). *"Lleno de Tejanidad: Staging a Bilingual “Comedy of Errors” in Central Texas.". In Shakespeare and Latinidad (pp. 170–177). Edinburgh, UK: Edinburgh University Press.
  • Actor, The Play that Goes Wrong. December 23, 2025 - March 15, 2026.
    Performances:
    • Theatrical Performance. March 6, 2026 - March 15, 2026 Ritz Theatre, 201 S. MAGNOLIA AVE., SANFORD, FL 32771.
  • Actor - Corvino, Volpone. November 11, 2025 - November 24, 2025.
    Performances:
    • Resurgens Theatre Season. November 20, 2025 - November 23, 2025 Pythagoras Temple, Decatur, GA.
  • Actor, “A Stroll in Shakespeare’s Milan”. May 15, 2025 - June 8, 2025.
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  • Award / Honor Recipient: Honorary Professor of International Studies, Texas State University. January 20, 2023
  • Award / Honor Recipient: In Honor of Service to Texas State Theatre Department, Named Honorary “Guest Director” for A Midsummer Night’s Dream. 2014
  • Award / Honor Recipient: Vera Mowry Roberts Outstanding Essay Award for “Tommaso Salvini’s Othello and Racial Identity in Late Nineteenth-Century America.”, American Theatre and Drama Society. 2013
  • Award / Honor Recipient: Outstanding Dissertation Award for “Elizabethan Staging in the Twentieth Century: Theatrical Practice and Cultural Context,”, University of North Carolina at Greensboro. 2006
  1. Member

    English Department Scholarship Committee

  2. Member

    Transportation Services Advisory Council

  3. Other

    Poor Shadows of Elysium Theatre

  4. Member

    MA Literature Committee

  5. Member

    Sophmore Literature Committee

  6. Member

    Fulbright Campus Committee for Kathleen McDowell

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