Shannon Jackson, Professor in the Departments of Rhetoric and Theater, Dance and Performance Studies.

Current Research

Performance Studies, American Studies Research includes 20th and 21st century art movements, social movements, and critiacal theory; local culture and intercultural citizenship in turn-of-the-century United States; history and theory of theatre and experimental performance; the history and theory of disciplines, the humanities, and the modern university; the study and practice of oral performance, adaptation and oral narrative.

Selected Awards and Fellowships

• 2007, Author of the Year, Comparative Drama Association
• 2005, Best Book, National Communications Association
• 2005, Best Book, Association for Theatre in Higher Education
• 2001, Honorable Mention, Best Book, American Studies Association
• 1997/98, Radicliffe Institute of Advanced Study
• 1995, Michigan Society of Fellows (declined)
• 1994/95, National Endowment of the Humanities (declined)
• 1994/95, Spencer Foundation Fellowship