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

Rhetoric Department
215 Dwinelle Annex
University of California
Berkeley, CA 94720
510.642.3895
E-mail: shjacks@berkeley.edu		  
     
 

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

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.