Faculty Profile for Dr. Joseph R Falocco

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Dr. Joseph R Falocco
Professor — English
FH 365
phone: (512) 245-2163
Scholarly/Creative Work
Awards
Grants
Service

Selected Scholarly/Creative Work

  • 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, “A Stroll in Shakespeare’s Milan”. May 15, 2025 - June 8, 2025.
  • Fight Choreographer, Murder in the Cathedral. May 5, 2025 - May 10, 2025.
    Performances:
    • Theatrical Production. May 8, 2025 - May 10, 2025 Cathedral Church of St. Luke, Orlando.
  • Falocco, J. R., Sutton, J., & Modenessi, A. M. (2024). Santiago:  Making Bilingual Shakespeare Count. Shakespeare (Special Issue), 20(4).

Selected Awards

  • 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

Selected Grants

  • 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.

Selected Service Activities

Member
English Department Scholarship Committee
February 15, 2022-Present
Member
Transportation Services Advisory Council
August 15, 2019-Present
Literary Consultant
Poor Shadows of Elysium Theatre
2013-Present
Member
MA Literature Committee
August 2011-Present
Member
Sophmore Literature Committee
August 2011-Present