Selected Publications

Books

• Social Works: The Infrastructural Politics of Performance (current book in progress)
• Professing Performance: Theatre in the Academy from Philolgy to Performativity (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge UP, December 2004)
• Lines of Activity: performance, Historiography, and Hull-House Domesticity, (Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P, 2000)

Chapters in Edited Collections

• “Rhetoric in Ruins”, Contesting Performance, Eds. Jon McKenzie and Heike Roms, (forthcoming)
• “Queer Politics and Domestic Democracy,” Ed. Carol Nackenoff, et al, Jane Addams in History: Women’s Experiences Shaping Theory, (Urbana: University of Illinois P, forthcoming).
• “Institutional Genealogies of Performance Studies,” Sage Handbook of Performance Studies Ed. Madison et al (New York: Sage, December 2005).
• “Touchable Stories and the Infrastructural Imagination,” Rememberings: Performance and Oral History, Ed. Della Pollock (St. Martin’s Press, October 2005).
• “Professing Performance: Disciplinary Genealogies,” reprinted in The Performance Studies Reader, Ed. Henry Bial (London: Routledge, 2004).
• “Why Modern Drama is Not Culture: Disciplinary Blind Spots,” reprinted in Performance: Critical Concepts , ed. Philip Auslander (New York: Routledge, 2003) and in Modern Drama: Defining the Field, Eds. Richard Knowles, Joanne Tompkins, W.B. Worthen (Toronto: U of Toronto P, 2003)
• “Theatricality’s Proper Objects: Genealogies of Performance and Gender,” Theatricality, Eds. Tracy Davis and Tom Postlewait (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2003).
• “Performance at Hull-House: Museum, Micro-fiche, Historiography,” Exceptional Spaces: Essays in Performance and History, ed. Della Pollock (Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina P, 1998), 261-93.

Essays in Peer-Reviewed Journals

• “Caravans Continued: Remembering Dwight Conquergood,” The Drama Review: 50 th Anniversary Issue (Spring 2006).
• “Performing Show and Tell: On the Disciplinary Problems of Mixed-Media Practice,” The Journal of Visual Culture, Special Issue: “Show and Tell: The State of Visual Culture Studies,” edited by Martin Jay, August, 2005.
• “Resist Singularity,” Theatre Survey, Special Issue: “What is the single most important thing we can do to bring theatre history into the new millenium?,” edited by Jody Enders, Fall 2004.
• “Partial Publicities and Gendered Remembering” Cultural Studies (Fall 2003).
• “Why Modern Drama is Not Culture: Disciplinary Blind Spots” Modern Drama (Spring 2002).
• “Professing Performance: Disciplinary Genealogies,” The Drama Review (Spring 2001).
• “Performing White, Writing Performance,” The Drama Review (March 1998): 49-65.
• “Pedagogy and White Privilege: Nadine Gordimer in Performance” Theatre Topics: Special Issue “Pedagogy/Performance” (Fall 1997): 117-38.
• “Civic Play-Housekeeping: Gender, Theatre, and American Reform,” Theatre Journal: Special Issue “Enacting American” (Fall 1996): 337-61.
• “Representing Rape: Model Mugging’s Discursive and Embodied Performances,” The Drama Review (Fall 1993): 110-41.
• “Rooms of Re-collection: Adrienne Kennedy’s Post-Modern Art of Memory,” Theatre Annual (Spring 1993): 73-83.
• “Audition and Ethnography: Performance as Ideological Critique,” Text and Performance Quarterly (Winter 1993): 21-43.
• “Performing the Performance of Power in Beckett’s Catastrophe,” The Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism (Spring 1992): 23-41.