Academic Profile
Publications & C.V.
Selected publications, conference papers, and academic employment history. Download selected papers at Academia.edu ↗
Education
New York University, Ph.D, Performance Studies, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. Dissertation: Mikhail Bakhtin and Performance.
Ohio University, M.A. English.
Oxford University, Trinity College (Graduate Courses).
Ohio University: B.A. Humanities, Philosophy (Fellow, Honors College).
Employment — Academic
Associate Professor Performance Studies, Dept. of Interdisciplinary Arts and Performance, Arizona State University, West Campus.
Assistant Professor Performance Studies, Dept. of Interdisciplinary Arts and Performance, Arizona State University, West Campus.
Instructor, ASUW Arts and Sciences.
New York University, Department of English — Adjunct Assistant Professor of Humanities, Expository Writing Program.
University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA — Adjunct Assistant Professor of Humanities / Communications, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA.
Teacher, Hahnemann University Special High School for Human Resources and Development.
Teacher/Curriculum Development, High School, Language Arts Title VIII — Dropout Prevention, Trenton High School, Trenton, N.J.
Adult Learning/Curriculum Development: Language Arts, Ohio University Education Department and The Ohio State Penitentiary, Lucasville, Ohio.
Other Employment
Special Projects Director/Writer, Relâche Music Ensemble, Philadelphia, PA. (Arts Administration: publications editor, grant writer, program, festival, and events coordinator).
Writer/Program Development/Arts Administration, The Yellow Springs Institute, Chester Springs, PA.
Journalism/Business Writing/Consulting/Research, newspapers, magazines, foundations, arts and non-profit organizations in Philadelphia, including The Philadelphia Inquirer.
Publications — Journal Articles (selected)
"Robert Ashley: Language, Texts and Performance." 19 pages. Studient Zur Wertungsforshcung, Critical Research Studies in Music. Wein, London.
"Artaud and American Artists." Performing Arts Journal 45:2: 152–156. #134 May. Review Essay on Bradnock, Lucy, No More Masterpieces: Modern Art After Artaud. New Haven, Yale University Press, 2020.
"Vorticism Revisited." Journal of Modern Literature 38.4 Summer 178–183.
"Museums and New Aesthetic Practices." Museums & Social Issues 6:1: Spring, 71–79.
"Avital Ronell's The Test Drive and Performance." Mofa: Journal of Performing Arts.
"Uncurating at The Slought Foundation: Art Today in Practice, Theory, Talk." Locus Suspectus 5: 12–15.
"ReViewing Robert Ashley's Music With Roots in the Aether: the first opera for television." Millennium Film Journal Fall (42) 53–70.
"Robert Ashley: Defining American Opera." PAJ/Performing Arts Journal 27:2 (78). 45–60.
"From Dog to Ant: The Evolution Of Lee Breuer's Animations." PAJ/Performing Arts Journal 26:2 (77). 52–60.
"Variant Readings: On Armand Schwerner's Prose." Talisman: Armand Schwerner Issue 19: 112–116.
"Performance Novels: Notes Toward an Extension of Bakhtin's Theories of Genre and the Novel." Discours Social/Social Discourse 3, 1/2: 135–145.
"Humor in the 1930s." Book Forum 6, 2: 196–200.
"On Reading José Lezama Lima's Paradiso." LatinAmerican Fiction Today 139–146.
"The Themes of Black Literature." Ohio English Bulletin 12, 3: 1–4.
Book Chapters, Dictionary Entries & Conference Papers (selected)
"Lee Breuer: Writing, Directing, Illusion-Making and Theatre" in Great North American Stage Directors, V. 5: Richard Schechner, Lee Breuer, Ann Bogart, ed. Joan Herrington. London, New York: Methuen/Bloomsbury, 134–171.
"Introduction: Illusions, Reality and Performance in the Imagination of Lee Breuer," in La Davina Caricatura: Bunraku Meets Motown. London, New York, Calcutta: Seagull Press.
"On Resonance, Paradoxical Sublimations; or, Meditations on the Legacy of a Glass Harp and Philadelphia's Sonic Unconscious." America and the Musical Unconscious. Julius Greve and Sascha Pöhlmann (eds.). New York, Dresden: Atropos Press. 373–410.
"Orpheus and Eurydice in Performance in the 21st Century." Istanbul 2nd Annual International Aksit Gorturk Conference. Myths Revisited. 208–218.
"Fred Ho's Operatic Journey." In Yellow Power! Yellow Soul: The Radical Art of Fred Ho. Eds., Roger Buckley, Tamara Roberts. Urbana: University of Illinois Press. 63–93.
"The Sonic Landscapes of Robert Ashley." In 20th Century Theater and Landscape. Elinor Fuchs and Una Chauduhi, eds. University of Michigan Press. 322–349.
"On the Dialogics of Pedagogy and Performance." In Teaching Performance: Theory, Practices, Pedagogy. Stuckey, Nathan and Cynthia Wimmer, eds. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press. 259–285.
"Silent Performances: On Reading John Cage." Bucknell Review: John Cage at 75. Eds. Richard Fleming, William Duckworth. Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell University Press. 74–96.
Other Articles, Reviews & Blogs
Extensive writing for Broad Street Review ↗ (2009–2016), covering film, theater, visual art, philosophy, and culture. Also: High Performance, New Art Examiner, Ear Magazine, Philadelphia Arts Exchange, Locus Suspectus, Hearsight Magazine, and others.