How race, performance, and labor interconnect on Caribbean cruise ships through the lens of a destination lecturer
How drag performance transforms the social landscape of Cuba and illuminates the island’s racial, sexual, and economic inequalities
How and why modern literature came to love its pests
A critical history of Black culture post-World War II that helped cultivate the spirit of Black revolutionary theater
An examination of revolutionary intimacy-making, experimental performance, and art activism during the civil rights movement
Using hip hop to create new theory
Reflections from college music instructors offering various approaches to inclusive, supportive pedagogy in the classroom.
How diaspora and borderlands subjects from across the Americas have represented and performed their interrelationship
Connecting Bateson’s ecology of mind with the environmental humanities
Revealing how landscapes dedicated to the perpetual care of the dead mirrored the transformations and conflicts of the nineteenth century in American society
Centering the electric bass in popular music history
Unearthing the undead stalking the panels of action/adventure and superhero comics
Understanding Chimerican entanglements through 21st-century media
Explores drama’s powerful capacity to model nuanced political action
Revisiting the Stanford Prison Experiment and other psychological experiments as performance and theater
An exploration of the experience of “health” in the age of the smart watch
How music defines US presidential campaigns
A unique in-depth study of a culture-specific approach to Indigenous dramaturgy that challenges Eurocentric ideologies
How artists of color challenged racist stereotypes on the Broadway stage
Parody, cross-dressing, zany comedy, and unbridled eroticism at a women's theater space in the East Village
Gay and lesbians in Harlem nightclubs, speakeasies, rent parties, and on Broadway stages
Brings together the voices of scholars, critics, and artists to celebrate the genius of Taylor Mac
Examines new narratives about work and workers in the age of transnational migration and precarious labor
A spirited examination of the changing cultural climate for a once-lauded theatrical form