Joseph Roach is an American theater historian and scholar, a

Sterling Professor Sterling Professor, the highest academic rank at Yale University, is awarded to a tenured faculty member considered the best in his or her field. It is akin to the rank of university professor at other universities. The appointment, made by the ...

emeritus at

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, and also a published author. He was also given an honorary Doctor of Letters by

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