Alexandra Bonds
Professor, Theater Arts
Phone: (541) 346-4194
Email: abonds@uoregon.edu
Alexandra Bonds teaches courses in costume design, history, and construction, and designs productions for University Theatre. Her main research interest is Asian theater, specifically the costumes of the Beijing opera. Her publications include Beijing Opera Costumes: The Visual Communication of Character and Culture, University of Hawai'i Press, 2008; “A Costumer Goes to Beijing” in the Costume Research Journal, (2002); and “Surface Design in Jingju Costumes: The Aesthetics and Meanings of Embroidered Imagery in the Beijing Opera” (2001), and “Beijing Opera Costumes, discovering the meaning in costumes of traditional Jingju" (1997) in Theatre Design and Technology. The latter article was honored by the Herb Greggs Award for excellence in writing for the performing arts, theatre design and technology. In 2000-1, Bonds received the USITT Fellowship for Excellence in Scholarship which provided funds to support her research on Beijing opera costumes. Professor Bonds was a Scholar in Residence at the Academy for Traditional Chinese Opera in Beijing, China in the spring 1996, and the summer of 2000, and 2001. A UO Humanities Center Fellowship in 2002 supported the early drafts of the manuscript. She was recognized by the University of Oregon for outstanding contribution to scholarship, teaching and service with the Richard A. Bray Faculty Award in 1999. Professor Bonds is currently the Vice President for International Activities for the United States Institute for Theatre Technology.
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