Research
Interests:
Opera,
performance studies, film
Recent
and Reoccurring Courses:
Interdisciplinary
Theory (THFM 768); Seminar in Performance Studies (THFM
668)
[Topics covered in these courses in recent years include
the following: celebrity theory as cultural practice,
and theorizing opera across disciplines (body theories,
ethnicity and power, intertextuality and aesthetic practice).]
Selected
Publications:
"Chasing
Kundry's Shadow" Text and Performance Quarterly,
26.4 (October 2006): 371-388.
"An
Approach to Transnational Collaboration: A Report from
PSi9, Field Station New Zealand," in Transnational
Initiative Projects, edited by Margaret Merrion,
Western Michigan U, 2005.
"Acting
Prima Donna Politics in Tomas Gutierrez Alea's Strawberry
and Chocolate," in More than a Method,
edited by C. Baron, Wayne State U Press, ,2004.
"Creating
the Image of a Martyr: John Porter, Bible Reader"
(with J. Forse) Sixteenth Century Journal xxx/3
(2002): 725-734.
"The
Force of Callas' Kiss: The 1997 Apple Advertising Campaign,
Think Different." Text and Performance Quarterly.
21.3 (2001): 202-219.
"Pelleas
et Melisande through the filter of the American Experience:
Comparing Notes with Peter Sellars." (with Nancy
Robichaud) Theatre Annual. 53 (2000): 37-68.
Awards
and Honors:
NEH
Summer Scholar-in-Residence, Princeton University, 2004
Outstanding
Scholar Award, Central States Communication Association,
Performance Studies and Theatre Interest Group, 2004
Distinguished
Service Award, Theate Division, National Communication
Association, 2005 |
