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CURRICULUM VITAE
(Brief format, web version)
NATHAN P. STUCKY
Professor and Chair
Department of Communication Studies
Southern Illinois University, Carbondale
Carbondale, IL 62901-6605 USA
Tel: (618) 453-2291
E-Mail: [email protected]
http://siu.academia.edu/NathanStucky/
http://cola.siu.edu/communicationstudies/
EDUCATION
Ph.D. 1988. The University of Texas, Austin.
Speech Communication, Performance of Literature
M.A. 1978. Indiana University, Bloomington
Theatre and Drama, Directing
B.A. 1972. Friends University, Wichita, Kansas
Speech and Drama
INTERESTS AND SPECIALTIES:
Ritual, identity and community performance.
Performance as constitutive and reflective of culture.
Performance ethnography. Culture and identity. Political performance and the
politics of performance.
Performance studies pedagogy and history.
Specific interest in the interface of oral traditions and contemporary
performance studies pedagogy
Literature in performance.
Methods and theories relating to the oral performance of literature with
particular emphasis on narrative forms and performance praxis
Conversation analysis and performance.
Ongoing research in the empirical study of human interaction through
conversation analysis, Natural Performance and Everyday Life
Performance (ELP)
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Professor and Chair, Department of Communication Studies, Southern Illinois
University, Carbondale
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Chair, January 2002-present
Acting Chair, June-December, 2001
Professor July 2009-present
Associate Professor Fall 1996-Spring 2009
Assistant Professor Fall 1990-Summer 1996
Assistant Professor, Department of Speech Communication, Theatre, and
Communication Disorders, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge,
Louisiana, 1988-1989, 1989-1990
Assistant Instructor, The University of Texas at Austin, 1985-1986, 1986-1987,
1987-1988
Assistant Professor of Speech Communication and Dramatic Arts, and Director of
Theatre, Central Methodist College, Fayette, Missouri, 1981-1982, 19821983, Instructor of Speech Communication and Dramatic Arts, 1980-1981
Instructor of Drama and Director of Theatre, San Jacinto College, North Campus,
Houston, Texas, 1978-1979, 1979-1980
REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS AND CREATIVE SCHOLARSHIP
PUBLISHED SCHOLARSHIP
BOOK
Stucky, Nathan and Cynthia Wimmer, Eds. Teaching Performance Studies.
Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2002.
PEER REVIEWED JOURNAL ARTICLES
Stucky, Nathan. “Cap Pistols and Rubber Tomahawks: Leaning the Ways of
Cowboys and Indians.” International Review of Qualitative Research 8.3
(Fall 2015): 301-309
Stucky, Nathan. “The Paradox of Santoro’s At the Mercy of Ruin.” Text and
Performance Quarterly 35.2-3 (April-July 2015): 257-258.
Daughton, Suzanne and Nathan Stucky, "Revisiting HopKins: Turning and
Tossing Rhetoric and Performance." Text and Performance Quarterly 34.1
(January 2014): 120-122.
Stucky, Nathan. "Everywhere and Always Performance." Text and Performance
Quarterly 33.3 (July 2013): 229-230.
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Stucky, Nathan. "It's Time to Boo: Resonance, Resistance, and Revolution."
Qualitative Inquiry 19.2 (Spring 2013).
Stucky, Nathan. "Wallace Bacon's View from the Lighthouse." Text and
Performance Quarterly 32.3. Poem. (July 2012): 244.
Stucky, Nathan. “Landscape Theatre: Memory, Personal Identity and Narrative
Recall.” Theatre Annual 61 (2008): 67-81.
Stucky, Nathan. “Performing Master Han.” Cultural Studies <-> Critical
Methodologies 5.1 (February 2005): 52-64.
Stucky, Nathan. “Performance Studies as Equipment for Living.” Dokkyo
International Review 16 (2003): 57-68.
Stucky, Nathan. "Re/locating the Text: Literature in Performance Studies
Practice." Communication Education 45.2 (April 1996): 112-117.
Stucky, Nathan. "Mistakes Were Made: Intentional Failure as a Way to Teach
Interviewing." The Speech Communication Teacher 10.1 (1995).
Reprinted in Selections from the Speech Communication Teacher, 19941996, (Ed., Stephen Lucas) McGraw Hill (1997).
Stucky, Nathan. “Performing Oral History: Storytelling and Pedagogy.”
Communication Education 44.1 (1995): 1-14.
Stucky, Nathan. "Interactional Silence: Pauses in Drama." Journal of
Pragmatics 21 (1994): 97-116.
Stucky, Nathan. "Toward an Aesthetics of Natural Performance." Text and
Performance Quarterly 13.2 (1993): 168-180.
Stucky, Nathan and Phillip Glenn. "Invoking the Empirical Muse: Conversation,
Performance, and Pedagogy." Text and Performance Quarterly 13.2
(1993): 192-196.
Stucky, Nathan, Paul Gray, and Linda Park-Fuller. "Minding the Stops:
Performance and Affective Stylistics." Text and Performance Quarterly
10.4 (1990): 269-281.
Lawrence, Samuel, Nathan Stucky and Robert Hopper. "The Effects of Sex
Dialects and Sex Stereotypes on Speech Evaluations." Journal of
Language and Social Psychology 9.3 (1990): 209-224.
Stucky, Nathan. "Unnatural Acts: Performing Natural Conversation." Literature
in Performance 8.2 (1988): 28-39.
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BOOK CHAPTERS AND PROCEEDINGS
Stucky, Nathan and Jessica Tomell-Presto. “Revision and Tradition in Acting and
Movement Training Pedagogy.” Teaching Theatre Today. New York:
Palgrave Macmillan (2009): 103-125.
Stucky, Nathan. “Fieldwork in the Performance Studies Classroom: Learning
Objectives and the Activist Curriculum.” Handbook of Performance
Studies. Eds. Judith Hamera and Soyini Madison. Newberry Park, CA:
Sage (2006): 261-277.
Stucky, Nathan and Jessica Tomell-Presto. “Acting and Movement Training as a
Pedagogy of the Body.” Theatre Pedagogy Eds, Gail S. Medford and
Anne Fliotsos. New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2004): 103-124.
Stucky, Nathan and Suzanne Daughton. "The Body Present: Reporting Everyday
Life Performance." Studies in Language and Social Interaction. Eds,
Phillip Glenn, Curtis LeBaron, and Jennifer Mandelbaum. Mahwah, NJ:
Lawrence Earlbaum (2003): 479-491.
Stucky, Nathan. "Deep Embodiment: The Epistemology of Natural
Performance." In, Teaching Performance Studies. Eds. Nathan Stucky
and Cynthia Wimmer. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press
(2002): 131-144.
Stucky, Nathan and Cynthia Wimmer. “The Power of Transformation in
Performance Studies Pedagogy.” In, Teaching Performance Studies. Eds.
Nathan Stucky and Cynthia Wimmer. Carbondale: Southern Illinois
University Press (2002): 1-29.
Stucky, Nathan. “’What’s Hecuba to Him, or He to Hecuba?’: Why I Can’t Cry,
Mostly.” The Green Window: Proceedings from the Giant City
Conference on Performative Writing. Eds. Ronald J. Pelias and Lynn C.
Miller. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University (2001): 122-137
Stucky, Nathan. "Re/membering the Future by Re/searching the Past: What to
Wall In and Wall Out in Performance Studies History." Ed. Sheron J.
Dailey. The Future of Performance Studies: Visions and Revisions.
Annandale,VA: National Communication Assn. (1998): 93-97.
ARTISTIC AND CREATIVE SCHOLARSHIP
THEATRE DIRECTING
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Director. The Good Life. Central States Communication Association conference,
Minneapolis, MN, March 2007.
The Good Life. Longbranch Coffee House, Carbondale, Illinois, April
2007.
The Good Life. SIUC Kleinau Theatre, April 2007
Co-director (with Jessica Tomell-Presto). Burning Old Main. SIUC Kleinau
Theatre, 2002.
Director. Silence. SIUC Kleinau Theatre, April 2001.
Director. Pigs in Heaven. SIUC Kleinau Theatre, 1997.
Director. Performing Across Cultures. SIUC Kleinau Theatre (staged in Quigley
Auditorium during Kleinau renovation), 1995.
Performing Across Cultures. Central States Communication Association
convention, Indianapolis, 1995.
Director. Manners. SIUC Kleinau Theatre (in Quigley Auditorium during Kleinau
renovation), 1994.
Manners. Invited performance at Bowling Green State University, Bowling
Green, Ohio, 1994.
Director. Enter Without Knocking, SIUC Kleinau Theatre, 1993.
Enter Without Knocking. Combined Central States Communication
Association and Southern States Communication Association
meeting, Lexington, Kentucky, 1993.
Director. If on a winter's night a traveler. SIUC Kleinau Theatre, 1991.
If on a winter's night a traveler. Petit Jean Interpretation Festival, Conway,
Arkansas, 1991.
Director. Naturally Speaking. Louisiana State University, 1990.
Director. Lost in the Funhouse. Louisiana State University, 1989.
Co-director (with Mary Frances HopKins). The Sugar Mother. Conference on
Narrative, Louisiana State University, 1989.
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SCRIPT WRITING (original playwriting, scripting, dramaturgy, and adaptation
for the stage)
Original script and adaptation. Black & White & Red All Over, SIUC Kleinau
Theatre, January 2013.
Black & White & Red All Over, Central States Communication
Association conference, Kansas City, (April 2013).
Script. The Good Life. Central States Communication Association conference,
Minneapolis, MN, 2007.
Original Script. Burning Old Main, SIUC Kleinau Theatre, 2002.
Dramaturg. Burning Old Main, SIUC Kleinau Theatre, 2002.
Original Script. Silence. Original script writing, adaptation and direction, SIUC
Kleinau Theatre, 2001.
Dramaturg. Silence. SIUC Kleinau Theatre, 2001.
Script. Pigs in Heaven, SIUC Kleinau Theatre. Adaptation of the novel by
Barbara Kingsolver, 1997.
Original Script. Performing Across Cultures, SIUC Kleinau Theatre (in Quigley
Auditorium during renovation). 1995.
Original Script. Manners. SIUC Kleinau Theatre (in Quigley Auditorium during
renovation), 1994.
Original Script. Enter Without Knocking. SIUC Kleinau Theatre, 1993.
Enter Without Knocking, combined Central States Communication
Association and Southern States Communication Association
meeting, Lexington, Kentucky, 1993.
Script. If on a winter's night a traveler. Adaptation of the novel by Italo Calvino,
SIUC Kleinau Theatre, 1991.
If on a winter's night a traveler, Petit Jean Interpretation Festival, Conway,
Arkansas, 1991.
Original Script. Naturally Speaking. Adaptation and scripting based on
conversation analysis fieldwork staged for performance, Louisiana State
University, 1990.
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Script. Lost in the Funhouse. Adaptation of John Barth's collection of stories,
Louisiana State University, 1989.
Script. The Sugar Mother. Adaptation of Elizabeth Jolley's novel for the
Conference on Narrative, Louisiana State University, co-adaptor with
Mary Frances HopKins. 1989.
SOLO AND GUEST PERFORMANCES
Solo Performance. The Tragedy of Macbeth by William Shakespeare (selected
scenes). SIUC Kleianu Theatre, January 2015.
Poems by Cynthia MacDonald. “How to Order a Freak,” “News on the Death of
the World’s Biggest Man.” SIUC Kleinau Theatre, January 2014.
Solo Performance. Black & White & Red All Over, SIUC Kleinau Theatre,
January 2013.
Solo Performance. Black & White & Red All Over, Central States
Communication Association conference, Kansas City, April 2013.
Guest artist. Bowling Green State University Theatre Department. Performance of
the Stage Manager. Our Town, by Thornton Wilder directed by Vanessa
Baker, February 2008.
Invited performance. “Saved by the Devil’s Boots.” National Communication
Association conference, San Antonio, November 2006.
“Saved by the Devil’s Boots.” Kleinau Theatre, Department of Speech
Communication, SIUC, February 2007.
The Iliad, by Homer. (Selections). Kleinau Theatre, Department of Speech
Communication, SIUC, January 2005.
“Junkmans Obbligato,” by Lawrence Ferlinghetti. Kleinau Theatre, Department
of Speech Communication, SIUC, January 2002.
Cuttings, staged reading for original play by David Rush, Department of Theater,
SIUC, 2000.
The Prophet of Bishop Hill, staged reading for original play by David Rush,
Department of Theater, SIUC, 1998.
“Sterling Brown in Performance,” Kleinau Theatre, Department of Speech
Communication, SIUC, February 1997.
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INVITED ADDRESSES
Invited lecturer. Center for Performance Research The University of Wales,
Aberystwyth, Wales, UK. Lecture title: “American Identity Performance:
The Case of Collegiate Homecoming,” 2005.
Keynote. Dokkyo International Forum on Performance Studies, Dokkyo, Japan.
Lecture title: “Performance Studies as Equipment for Living,” 2003.
Featured address. Ibaraki University, Tokyo, Japan. Lecture title: “Ritual
Performance of American Community Identity,” 2002).
Keynote address and festival critic. Fall Performance Festival, Bowling Green
State University, Bowling Green, Ohio. Lecture title: "Performing
Naturally in a Postmodern Age,” 1993.
Keynote address. The Petit Jean Interpretation Festival, Conway, Arkansas.
Lecture title: "Metafiction in Performance: Looking at Cultural Diversity
and Multiple Frames,"1991.
Invited lecturer and festival critic. Otis J. Aggert Memorial Interpretation
conference, Indiana State University, Terre Haute. Lecture title: "Hearing
the `Insignificant' Other," 1991.
Invited lecturer. The Humphreys Symposium in Speech Communication, Albion
College, Albion, Michigan. Lecture title: "Conversational Performance:
Generating an Aesthetic Field," 1990.
Invited lecturer and critic. The North Carolina Fall Festival, The University of
North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Lecture title: "Developing
Performances from Naturally-Occurring Conversation," 1989.
Stucky, Nathan. Concordia College, Austin, Texas. Lecture title: “The Point of
Point of View,” 1994.
Stucky, Nathan. Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge. Lecture title:
“Conversation Analysis and the Study of Communicative Performance,”
1988.
PAPERS AND PRESENTATIONS AT PROFESSIONAL MEETINGS (since 1999)
Stucky, Nathan and Suzanne Daughton. “Stories that Haunt: Tom Graves’
Installation Performance, Día de los Muertos.” National Communication
Association conference, Philadelphia, November 2016.
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Stucky, Nathan. “Pedagogical Oxygen: Breathing Performance.” National
Communication Association conference, Las Vegas, November 2015.
Daughton, Suzanne and Nathan Stucky. “We Can If We Want To: Embracing
Power, Professorship, and Power.” National Communication Association
conference, Las Vegas, November 2015.
Stucky, Nathan. “Chautauqua Echoes: Nineteenth-Century Reverberation in
Twenty-First Century Performance Praxis.” National Communication
Association conference, Chicago, November 2014.
Stucky, Nathan. “Mining Poetry in Everyday Moments: Ron Pelias and the
Ethnographic Microscope.” National Communication Association
conference, Chicago, November 2014.
Stucky, Nathan. “Cap Pistols and Rubber Tomahawks: Leaning the Ways of
Cowboys and Indians.” Tenth International Congress on Qualitative
Inquiry, Urbana, Illinois, May 2014.
Stucky, Nathan. "Adrienne Rich's 'Tonight No Poetry Will Serve.'" Paper and
performance. Central States Communication Association conference,
Kansas City, April 2013.
Stucky, Nathan. "Everywhere and Always Performance." Performance Studies
Division, National Communication Association, Villanova Conference
Ethics and Economies of Performance, Philadelphia, June 2012.
Stucky, Nathan. "Resonance, Resistance and Revolution." National
Communication Association conference, New Orleans, November 2011.
Stucky, Nathan. "Performance Groups, Spaces, and Social Practice." National
Communication Association conference, New Orleans, November 2011.
Stucky, Nathan. “Cancel That, Redo It, Start Over: Performing Errors, Performing
Erasures.” National Communication Association conference, San
Francisco, November 2010.
Parrott, Charles, Nathan Stucky and Elyse Pineau. “Martin and Hannah: ReCasting the Past.” National Communication Association conference, San
Francisco, November 2010.
Stucky, Nathan. “State versus Nation: Local Hegemonic Performances.”
Performance Studies International (PSi-16), Toronto, June 2010.
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Stucky, Nathan. “Mapping Performance Studies: New Texts, New Terrains.”
National Communication Association conference, Chicago, November
2009.
Stucky, Nathan. “Five Years Out Panel for Performance Studies.” (Presenter)
National Communication Association conference, Chicago, November
2009.
Stucky, Nathan. “Revealing the Concealed Performance: Keeping Skeletons in
the Closet.” National Communication Association conference, San Diego,
November 2008.
Stucky, Nathan. “Making a Case for the Worth of Our Work: New Strategies for
Qualitative Researchers and Writers Seeking Tenure and Promotion.” The
Fourth International Congress on Qualitative Inquiry, Champaign-Urbana,
May 2008 .
Stucky, Nathan. “Bodies Holding Performance: Performance Ethnography as
Archive.” Central States Communication Association conference,
Madison, WI April 2008.
Stucky, Nathan. “Ordinary Allegiance in Routine Public Performance.” National
Communication Association conference, Chicago, November 2007.
Stucky, Nathan. “Collections, Collaborations, and Community: (In)vested
Performance.” National Communication Association conference, San
Antonio, November 2006.
Stucky, Nathan. “On the Various Possibilities and Impossibilities of Performing
Historical Others.” National Communication Association conference,
Boston, November 2005.
Stucky, Nathan. “Ouch! Performing Responses to the News.” Western States
Communication Association conference, San Francisco, April 2005.
Stucky, Nathan. “Space and Memory: Storying the Land.” National
Communication Association conference, Chicago, November 2004.
Stucky, Nathan. “Perils of Passion: Policing the Politics of the Personal.” National
Communication Association conference, Chicago, November 2004.
Daughton, Suzanne and Nathan Stucky. “Explosion Kills Seven: Imagining
Violence in the News.” Global Fusion: An International-Intercultural
Communications Conference. St. Louis, October 2004.
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Stucky, Nathan. "Teaching Theatre Today: Global and Local Convergence in the
Classroom." Association for Theatre in Higher Education, Toronto,
Canada, July 2004.
Stucky, Nathan. “Hegemonic Performance in the Obviously Invisible.” National
Communication Association conference, Miami, November 2003.
Stucky, Nathan. “Performance Studies as Equipment for Living.” Dokkyo
University International Forum on Performance Studies. Tokyo, Japan,
December, 2002.
Stucky, Nathan. "Critical Performance and Pedagogical DNA: Talking Like Paul
Gray.” National Communication Association conference, New Orleans,
November 2002.
Stucky, Nathan. “Teaching Performance Studies: Re-imagining Our Pedagogy.”
Association for Theatre in Higher Education conference, San Diego. July,
2002.
Stucky, Nathan. “The Real of the ‘Untouchable’?: Critical Engagement and
Performance Studies Praxis.” National Communication Association
conference, Atlanta, November 2001.
Stucky, Nathan. “The Politics of the Status Quo: Performing Dominant
Culture.” Association for Theatre in Higher Education, Chicago, August
2001.
Stucky, Nathan. “South by Southwest: Barbara Kingsolver’s Southern Import.
” National Communication Association conference, Seattle, November
2000.
Stucky, Nathan. “Performing Master Han.” Association for Theatre in Higher
Education, Washington, D.C., 2000.
Stucky, Nathan. "Performance as Power in Community Self-Fashioning."
National Communication Association conference, Chicago, November
1999.
Stucky, Nathan. "Ethnographic Resistance: Searching for Identity in the
Postmodern Community." National Communication Association
conference, Chicago, November 1999.
Stucky, Nathan. "Identity Politics and the Assertion of Local Power: The
Hegemony of Homecoming Rituals." Performance Studies International,
Aberystwyth, Wales, UK, April 1999.
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PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
EDITORSHIP & EDITORIAL BOARDS
EDITORSHIP
Editor. Theatre Annual: A Journal of Performance Studies, 1997-2001
EDITORIAL BOARDS
Editorial Board, National Review Board, Performance Studies, National
Communication Association, 2008-present
Editorial Board, Theatre Annual: A Journal of Performance Studies, 20012015
Associate Editor, Text and Performance Quarterly, 1996-2006, 2008-present
Editorial Board, Storytelling, Self, Society: An Interdisciplinary Journal of
Storytelling Studies, 2005-present
Associate Editor, Quarterly Journal of Speech, 1998-2001
Co-editor Performance Studies Focus Group Newsletter, Association for
Theatre in Higher Education, 1999-2000.
MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS
National Communication Association
Performance Studies International
Association for Theatre in Higher Education
American Society for Theatre Research
American Communication Association
Western States Communication Association
Central States Communication Association
HONORS AND AWARDS
2009 Outstanding Scholar, Performance Studies & Theatre Division, Central
States Communication Association, (April 2009)
Outstanding Teacher Award, Department of Speech Communication, SIUC, 2008.
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Golden Key International Honor Society, Southern Illinois University,
Carbondale, Ill, 2005.
The Distinguished Service Award. Performance Studies Division, The National
Communication Association, 2004.
Outstanding Graduate Scholar Award, University of Texas, 1988
Professional Development Award, University of Texas, 1987
Marjorie Davisson Parker Award for Excellence in Performance, University of
Texas, 1987
Phi Kappa Phi, National Honor Society, University of Texas Chapter, 1986
OFFICES HELD IN PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS
Member. National Review Board, Performance Studies Division, National
Communication Association, 2006-2007
Chair, Irene Coger Award Committee, National Communication Association,
(member 1999-2002; chair 2001-2002)
Executive committee, Performance Studies Focus Group, Association for Theatre
in Higher Education, 1993-2002
Advisory Board. Performance Studies International, 1997-2002
Chair, Non-Conference Activities Committee, Performance Studies International,
1999-2001
Nominating Committee, National Communication Association, 1998
Chair, Performance Studies Division, National Communication Association,
1996-1997
Chair, Lilla A. Heston Award Committee, National Communication Association,
(member 1996-1999; chair 1998-1999)
Federation Prize Committee, Central States Communication Association, 1996
Vice-chair, Performance Studies Division, Speech Communication Association,
1995-1996.
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National Conference Program Planner, Performance Studies Focus Group,
Association for Theatre in Higher Education, 1995-1997
Vice-chair elect, Performance Studies Division, Speech Communication
Association, 1994-1995
Secretary for Communications, Performance Studies Focus Group, Association
for Theatre in Higher Education, 1994-1995
Research committee, Performance Studies Division, Speech Communication
Association, 1993-1994
Bylaws committee, Performance Studies Focus Group, Association for Theatre in
Higher Education, 1994-1995
Chair, Performance Studies and Theatre Division, (formerly Interpretation and
Theatre Division) Central States Communication Association, 1993-1994
Vice-chair, Interpretation and Theatre Division, Central States Communication
Association, 1992-1993
Secretary, Interpretation and Theatre Division, Central States Communication
Association, 1991-1992
Short Course Committee, Interpretation Division, Speech Communication
Association, 1988-1989, 1989-1990, 1990-1991 (chair)
Nominating Committee, Interpretation Division, Speech Communication
Association, 1988-1989
Steering Committee, Salado II, Research Conference, Speech Communication
Association, Interpretation Division, 1989
Research conference coordinator (with Elizabeth Fine), Ethnographic approaches
to performance-centered research, Salado II, Interpretation Division
Conference, 1989
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
TEACHING INTERESTS AND SPECIALTIES
Cultural and ritual performance
Adaptation and staging literature
Prose fiction in performance
Performance studies history
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Conversational performance
Narrative theory
NUMBER OF MEMBERSHIPS ON MASTERS AND DOCTORAL
COMMITTEES
Masters advisees completed: 12
Career total masters committees: 27
Ph.D. advisees completed: 24
Career total doctoral committees: 90
MASTER'S DEGREES COMPLETED UNDER MY DIRECTION
Anthony Zariñana. “Testimonio and Rembembering: A Case for LatCrit in the
Latina/o Educational Crisis.” (report) 2016
Michael Selck. “Crip-Pessimism: Antagonizing Dis/Ability Through an Analysis
of the Collaborative Performance: Under the Mantle.” (report) 2015
Kyler Cook. “Key and Peele: Liminality and Using Comedy to Critique the
Politically Correct Generation.” (report) 2014.
Nazilhan Eda Erçin. "Community [Theatre] & Self: An (Auto)ethnographic
Journey Through a Case Study of the Stage Company." (thesis) 2011.
Nicholas Zaunbrecher “The Elements of Improvisation: Conceptual Tools for
Spontaneous Theatre.” (report) 2006
Joseph Hassert. ‘Wrestling with Wrestling: Gender, Sexuality, and Bodies on the
Mat.” (report) 2006
Jennifer Early Schaeffer. “Interpersonal Communication in Lean Manufacturing.”
(report) 2002
Denise Menchaca. "El Corazon de Guadalupe: A Look at Performing Chicana
Identity in Gloria Anzaldua's Borderlands/La Frontera: The New
Mestiza." (report) 1998
Jessica Tomell. “Going Where We’ve All Gone Before: An Analysis of Sex-Role
Stereotyping in Star Trek: The Next Generation.” (report) 1994
James Eric Dishman. “The Real Ambiguity of Subversion in Postmodern Play:
Rites, Radicalism, and Risk in the Rehearsals of Gender Marking.”
(thesis) 1992
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Michiyo Okawa. “Teaching English Through Performance: Proposed
Approaches for the Established General Education Courses of Japanese
Universities.” (report) 1992
Patricia English. “The Function of Monologic and Polyphonic Devices in the
Literature of C. S. Lewis.” (report) 1991
DOCTORAL DEGREES COMPLETED UNDER MY DIRECTION
Nicholas Zaunbrecher. “Doing Spontaneity.” 2016
Initial placement: University of Louisiana
Margarethe Mapes. “Globalized Backlash: Women Against Feminism’s New
Media Matrix of (Anti) Feminist Testimony.” 2016
Initial placement: University of Kansas
Diana Woodhouse. “Women’s Textile Graffiti: An Aesthetic Staging of
Public/Private Dichotomies.” 2015
Initial placement: College of Southern Nevada
David Hanley-Tejeda. “I am a Merry Midwest Mestizo: Race, Space and the
Landscaping of Identity.” 2014
Initial placement: Bloomsburg University
Joseph Hassert, “The Collaborative Performance of Open Mic Poetry and the Art
of Making Do” 2014
Initial placement: Bloomsburg University
Molly Cummins. “Communicating Care: A Critical Communication Pedagogy of
Care in the University Classroom” 2014
Initial placement: St. Cloud State University
Aubrey Huber. "Help as Communicative Practice: A Critical Ethnography of a
Teacher Education Classroom." 2013
Initial placement: University of South Florida
Craig Engstrom. “Shadowing Practices: An Ethnography of Private Investigators
as Entrepreneurs.” 2010
Initial placement: University of Montana
Christopher C. Collins. “Food and Performance in the Prison System.” August
2009
Initial placement: St. Cloud State University
Sachiko Tankei, “Becoming Japerican and Amerinese: An Ethnographic Study of
Employees at a Multicultural Workplace.” 2009.
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Initial placement: Florida Gulf Coast University
Amy L. Darnell. “Pencils of Light: Family, Photography, and Performance.”
2008.
Initial Placement: Columbia College
Satoshi Toyosaki. “Teaching as an Intersubjective Identity Project.” 2005
Initial placement: University of Wisconsin, LaCrosse
Julia Reimer. "Community, Faith, and the Social Imagination: A Case Study of
the Schloss Mittersill Community." 2005
Initial placement: Pacific University
Carolyn Cope. “The Female Aesthetic in Selected Plays of Maria Irene Fornes,
Wendy Wasserstein, Holly Hughes, and Suzan-Lori Parks” 2005
Initial placement: Augusta State College
Jessica Tomell-Presto. “The Creation of Identity in the Performance of Irish
Dance.” October 2003
Initial placement: DePaul University
Stephanie Martinez. “Alexian Brothers Salus Place: An Examination of the
Discourse About Illness.” August 2003
Initial placement: St. Edwards University
Jack Price. "Centripetal Forces in White Middle-Class Urban Communities: The
New American Minority" September 2003
Initial placement: Indiana University/Purdue University Indianapolis
Larry Russell. “Finding the Way Home: A Performance of Pilgrimage to a Shrine
of Healing.” April 2001
Initial placement: Hofstra University
Jackson Miller. "Quest for John Dewey: Performance, Knowledge, and the Art of
Inquiry." August 1998
Initial placement: Washington State University
Mara C. Loeb. “Family Storytelling Performances and the Manifestation and
Maintenance of the Family Culture: Spinning the Family Fiber." March
1996
Initial placement: Northeast Louisiana State University
christine m. broda-bahm. “Contesting Culture: The Theatricalization of Public
Displays of Resistance to Museums.” July 1995
Initial placement: Towson University
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Lori L. Montalbano. “Narrative Risk: The Telling of Abuse Survivor Narratives.”
June 1995
Initial placement: Indiana University Northwest
(CV updated: 1-26-17)