Department Bibliography of Publications & Conferences

Bibliography of Faculty/Student Publications & Conference Presentations

2012

Appler, Vivian. "Ana Mendieta's Shadows: Fire Siluetas in Cold War Americas." Presented at the Southern Humanities Conference, Louisville KY, February 2-5, 2012.

Appler, Vivian. "Waggis! A Theory of Mind and Mask. Presented at the From Ancient Masks to Artificial Intelligence: Drama, Theatre, and Performance Regional Conference, Pittsburgh PA, March 30-31, 2012.

Bisaha, David. "Big Props, Big Problems: Exclusion, Loss, and the Journey in Contemporary International Theatre for Teens." Presented at the Comparative Drama Conference, Baltimore MD, March 29-31,2012.

Crane, Robert. "Mask and Soul at the Taganka Theatre." Theatre Journal 64.2 (May 2012): 275-277.

Crane, Robert. "The Moscow Repertoire: Embodying the Past on the Contemporary Stage." Presented at the University of Pittsburgh Summer Language Institute Lecture Series, Pittsburgh PA, July 6, 2012.

Crane, Robert. "The Simonov Episode: Russian Plays and the American Stage, 1942-1947." Presented at the Comparative Drama Conference, Baltimore MD, March 29-31, 2012.

Crane, Robert. "Actors Playing Workers and Workers Playing Actors: The Blue Blouse Movement and the Performance of Class." Presented at the Mid-America Theatre Conference, Chicago IL, March 1-4, 2012.

DeSoto, Rachel. "Re-Shaping the Tragic Chorus: Aztec Myth and Performance in Cherrie Moraga's The Hungry Woman: A Mexican Medea." Presented at the From Ancient Masks to Artificial Intelligence: Drama, Theatre, and Performance Regional Conference, Pittsburgh PA, March 30-31, 2012.

George, Kathleen. Simple. New York: Minotaur Books, 2012.

Goldbogen, Tamara. “Creating a Theatre for Young Audiences Study Abroad Program: Reflecting on Challenges and Successes.” Presented at Hawaii University International Conferences on Arts and Humanities, Honolulu HI, 2012.

Good, Kristi. “Marilyn Monroe: Soldier in Greasepaint.” Presented at the Mid-Atlantic Popular & American Culture Association, Pittsburgh PA, November 3, 2012.

Good, Kristi. "'Ask your mama': Collective Memory and Storytelling in McCraney’s San Pere." Presented at the American Theatre in Higher Education Conference, Washington DC, August 3, 2012.

Good, Kristi. "'Halfway through the journey': Intertextuality and Collective Memory in McCraney’s Brother/Sister Plays." Presented at the American Theatre and Drama Society Conference, Seville Spain, May 28, 2012.

Good, Kristi. "Dramatic Surrogation and Commemoration in Sebastian Barry’s 'Ghost Plays.'" Presented at the American Conference for Irish Studies, New Orleans LA, March 16, 2012.

Jackson-Schebetta, Lisa. “Companies to Keep: Air Raid Radio Dramas and International Ethical Responsibility in America, 1936-1939.” Theatre History Studies (2012). Forthcoming.

Jackson-Schebetta, Lisa. “Other Races and Other Wars: José Ferrer, Othello and the Spanish Republic.” Presented at the American Society for Theatre Research, Nashville TN, November 2012.

Jackson-Schebetta, Lisa. “La Calle: Forgings of Spain in Margarita Xirgu and Rivas Cherif’s 1930 Staging of Elmer Rice’s Street Scene.” Presented at the CMU-Pitt Consortium of Theatre and Performance Faculty Regional Conference, Pittsburgh PA, March 2012.

Jackson-Schebetta, Lisa. “The Labor of Confrontation: the 1680 Viceregal Arches of Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora and Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz.” Presented at the Mid America Theatre Conference, Chicago IL, March 2012.

McConachie, Bruce. Theatre and Mind. New York: Palgrave Macmillon, 2012 (forthcoming).

McConachie, Bruce. "The Future of a Cognitive Approach to Performance Studies." Keynote Address presented at the Theatre Research and Performance Association Conference, Kent University, September 2012.

McConachie, Bruce. "Ethics, Evolution, Ecology, and Performance," in Readings in Performance and Ecology, Wendy Arons and Theresa J. May, Eds. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012, 91-100.

McConachie, Bruce. Review of Queer Theatre and the Legacy of Cal Yeomans, by Robert Schanke” in Choice, 49 (March 2012): 239.

Molldrem, Christiana. "Undercover: New Approaches to Plays from the Spanish Golden Age through Hidden Histories of Women and Native Americans". Presented at the American Society for Theatre Research, Nashville, TN. November 1-4, 2012.

Molldrem, Christiana."Dragging Mexico; Astrid Hadad's performance across borders". Presented at the Grad Expo at the University of Pittsburgh. March 22, 2012.

Nereson, Ariel."Corporeal Historiography in the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company's Lincoln Trilogy." Presented at the American Society for Theatre Research, Nashville TN, November 1-4, 2012.

Nereson, Ariel. "Audiences Divided: Empathy, Spectatorial Response, and Gay Kinship in Mae West's 'Gay Plays.'" Presented at the International Conference of American Drama and Theater, Seville Spain. May 28-30, 2012.

Nereson, Ariel. "There is some grace to it, we are professionals": Labor, Performance, and Identity in The Trash Project." Presented at the Mid-America Theatre Conference, Chicago IL, March 1-4, 2012.

Nereson, Ariel. "'I'll have to do splits to straighten myself out': Queer Performance Networks and Mae West's 'Gay Plays.'" Presented at the CORD Meanings and Makings of Queer Dance Conference, Ann Arbor MI, February 17-19, 2012.

O'Rourke, Deirdre. "Paula Vogel: The Child of Feminism and Queer Theory." Presented at the Comparative Drama Conference, Baltimore, March 29-31, 2012.

Peterson, Dave. "Shakespeare and The Supreme Court: Arbitrating Historical and National Truth." Presented at the Association for Theatre in Higher Education Conference, Washington DC, August 2-5, 2012.

Peterson, Dave. "Clowning as Performance and Dramaturgy in Two Productions of Godot." Paper Presented at the Comparative Drama Conference, Baltimore MD, March 29-31, 2012.

Wood, Peter. "Cognitive Dissonance: The Poetics of Mac Wellman." Presented at the Mid-Atlantic Popular/American Culture Association Conference, Pittsburgh PA, November 1-3, 2012.

Wood, Peter. "Back(lash) Into the Woods: Putting Women Back In Their Place." Presented at the Comparative Drama Conference, Pittsburgh PA, March 29-31, 2012.

2011

Chaki, Rohini. "The Behzti Affair: The Politics of Place in the Negotiation of Sikh Identity in Britain." Presented at the Reorienting Asia: South Asian Performance Across Frontiers Conference, Pittsburgh, May 12-14, 2011.

Costello, Tommy. "Local No More: The Returned Emigrant in Irish Theatre." Presented at the American Conference for Irish Studies, Madison, March 30-April 12, 2011.

Crane, Robert. "Elena Siemens. Theatre in Passing: A Moscow Photo-Diary." Slavic and East European Journal 55.4 (Winter 2011): 671-672. (review)

Crane, Robert. "D.J. Hopkins, Shelly Orr and Kim Solga, eds. Performance and the City." Theatre Survey 52.2 (Fall 2011): 384-386. (review)

Crane, Robert. "From the Worker's Club to the Archive: Documenting the Economies of Early Soviet Popular Theatre." Presented at the Theatre Library Association Plenary Session, American Society for Theatre Research, Montreal, November 17-20, 2011.

Crane, Robert. "From the Editors: Imagining the Soviet Living Newspaper Movement on the Pages of Blue Blouse." Presented at the University of Pittsburgh Center for Russian and East European Studies, Pittsburgh. October 2011.

Crane, Robert. "Moliere in a Blue Blouse: The Satire of Vladimir Mass and NEP Era Soviet Society." Presented at the Comparative Drama Conference, Los Angeles, March 24-26, 2011.

Crane, Robert. "Ramil' Salakhutdinov's Who Wasn’t There." KinoKultura 31 (Jan. 2011). (review)

Crane, Robert. "The Performance Historian as Cold Case Detective: Reopening Nikolai L'vov's Investigation of the Blue Blouse Movement." Performing Arts Resources 28: A Tyranny of Documents: The Performance Historian as Film Noir Detective. Ed. Stephen Johnson. New York: Theatre Library Association, 2011.

George, Kathleen. Pittsburgh Noir, Editor. New York: Akashic Books, 2011.

George, Kathleen. Hideout. New York: Minotaur Books, 2011.

Goldbogen, Tamara. "Re-Imagining A Brand," TYA Today. Vol 25. Num 2. 2011.

Goldbogen, Tamara. "Entering an Experiential World: Practical Techniques of Audience Engagement in Theatre for Young Audiences." Presented at the Forum of International Theatre for Young Audiences Research Network, Malmo, Sweden, 2011.

Good, Kristi. "Fact, Cruelty, and Memory: Representations of Bloody Sunday." Presented at the American Conference for Irish Studies, Madison WI, April 2, 2011.

Good, Kristi. “Hybrid Products of Conquest: Origins of a Mexican Performance Identity." Presented at the Middle Atlantic Conference for Latin America Studies, Pittsburgh PA, March 18, 2011.

Jackson-Schebetta, Lisa. "Ybor City Diasporas, the Spanish Civil War and the Federal Theatre Project’s Production of ‘Eso no puede ocurrir aqui’ (It Can’t Happen Here)." New England Theatre Journal. Vol 22 (2011).

Jackson-Schebetta, Lisa. “Companies to Keep: Air Raid Dramas and International Ethical Responsibility in America, 1936-1939.” Presented at the Mid-America Theatre Conference, Minneapolis, MN. March 2011. Recipient of 2011 Robert A. Schanke Research Award

Jackson-Schebetta, Lisa. Working Group: “Performance and the Economy of Global Topographies: Ascription, Value and the Body.” Presented at the American Society for Theatre Research, Montreal, Canada, November 2011. Co-convener with Neil Doshi.

Jackson-Schebetta, Lisa. “Disasters of War: Anti-fascist Obligations at Home and Abroad in Helen Tamiris’ Adelante!” Presented at the American Society for Theatre Research, Montreal, Canada, November 2011.

McConachie, Bruce. “Theatre and Film in Evolutionary Perspective,” Theatre Symposium, 19 (2011): 129-47.

McConachie, Bruce. “An Evolutionary Perspective on Play, Performance, and Ritual,” TDR: The Journal of Performance Studies, 55:4 (Winter 2011): 33-50.

McConachie, Bruce. “Moving Spectators Toward Progressive Politics by Combining Brechtian Theory with Cognitive Science,” in Playing with Theory in Theatre Practice. Ed. by Altruz, Listengarten, and Wood. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011: 148-60.

McConachie, Bruce. “All the World is Not a Stage.” Presented at the Performance Studies International Conference, Utrecht, Netherlands, June 2011.

McConachie, Bruce. “Practicing Theatre History with Cognitive Studies.” Presented at the Association for Theatre in Higher Education Conference, Chicago IL, August 2011.

McConachie, Bruce. “Blending with Angels,” Presented at the Association for the Study of the Arts in the Present, Pittsburg, PA, October 2011.

McConachie, Bruce. “Acceptance Speech for ASTR Distinguished Scholar Award.” Presented at the American Society for Theatre Research, Montreal, November 2011.

Molldrem, Christiana. "Policy and Pocahontas; 'Indian' Plays, Popular Culture and Public Policy from 1808 to 1830. Presented at the Draper Conference, Storrs CT, March 24-26, 2011.

Molldrem, Christiana. "Performing Criollo for Empire: Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz's The Divine Narcissus." Presented at The Graduate Symposium, Purdue University, March 5, 2011.

Nereson, Ariel. "Embodying the Undiscussable: Documentary Methodology in Bill T. Jones's Still/Here and the Culture Wars." Studies in Musical Theatre 5.3, 297-304.

Nereson, Ariel. "Laboring Toward the Real: Onstage Labor and Documentary Impulse in Jerome Bel's Veronique Doisneau." Presented at the American Society for Theatre Research, Montreal Quebec, November 18, 2011.

Nereson, Ariel. "Staging 'Poetic Facts': Documenting Experience Through Embodiment in Still/Here." Presented at the Association for Theatre in Higher Education Conference, Chicago IL, August 13, 2011.

O'Rourke, Deirdre. "'Reduce, reuse, recycle:' Adaptation as an Economic Approach to Shakespeare in the Restoration." Presented at the Shakespearean Performance Research Group, American Society for Theatre Research, Montreal, November 17-20, 2011.

Peterson, Dave. "Priscilla Horton and King Lear: The Reemergence and Gendering of the Fool." Presented at the Shakespeare Working Group, American Society for Theatre Research Conference. Montreal, November 17-20, 2011.

Peterson, Dave. "Performing Shakespeare's Clowns: Reevaluating Realism." Presented at the Popular Culture Association of Canada, Niagara Falls, May 12-14th, 2011.

Wood, Peter. "Apocalyptic Bodies: Butoh and Zombie Performance." Presented at the Comparative Drama Conference, Los Angeles, March 24-26, 2011.

2010

Appler, Vivian. "Mercury Madness: Learning about Mercury as a Global Pollutant through Mask." Presented at the2010 International Mercury Expo. College of William and Mary, 2010.

Bisaha, David. "Conceiving a 'Public' Space: A Spatialized History of the Pittsburgh Public Theatre." Presented at the Mid-America Theatre Conference, Cleveland OH, March 4-7, 2010.

Chaki, Rohini. "Revisiting Rama’s Birthplace: A Cognitive Inquiry into the Nature of Religious Violence." Presented at the Association for Theatre in Higher Education’s 24th Annual Conference, Los Angeles, 2010.

Chaki, Rohini. "Dakghar in Europe’s Darkest Hour: Tagore, The Post Office and the Orphans of Warsaw." Presented at the Tenth Annual Conference of the Association for Asian Performance, Los Angeles 2010.

Costello, Tommy. "Landscape Displaced: O’Neill’s Desire Under the Elms and its Irish Underpinnings." Presented at the American Society for Theatre Research, Seattle WA, November 2010.

Costello, Tommy. "Showing Through Telling: Mark O'Rowe's Howie the Rookie and Dublin's Dark Diegetic Narrative." Presented at the Association for Theatre in Higher Education: Los Angeles, August 2010.

Costello, Tommy. "Sundays at the Abbey: Engaging with Bloody Sunday and the Troubles at the Abbey Theatre." Presented at the American Conference for Irish Studies, State College PA, May 2010.

Crane, Robert. "Between Factography and Ethnography: Sergei Tretiakov’s Roar, China!." Text and Presentation 2010. Ed. Kiki Gounaridou. Jefferson, NC.: McFarland, 2011: 41-53.

Crane, Robert. “Tim Harte. Fast Forward.” Slavic and East European Journal 54.4 (Winter 2010): 715-717. (Book review)

Crane, Robert. "Imaginative Geographies of Russian and Soviet Empire." Presented at the Association for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies Convention, Los Angeles CA, November 2010.

Crane, Robert. "The Ghost of Tarelkin: Sukhovo-Kobylin and Meyerhold’s Haunted Stage." Presented at the Mid-Western Slavic Conference, Columbus, OH, March 2010.

Crane, Robert. "Between Factography and Ethnography: Sergei Tretiakov’s Roar, China!." Presented at the Comparative Drama Conference, Los Angeles, CA, March 2010.

Crane, Robert. "Rano Kubaeva’s figa.ro." KinoKultura 27 (Jan. 2010). (Film review)

Good, Kristi. "As You Like 'It': A Cognitive Approach to Audience Perception of the Androgynous Elizabethan Boy Actor." Presented at the Association of Theatre in Higher Education. Los Angeles CA, August 15, 2010.

Jackson-Schebetta, Lisa. “Between the Language and Silence of War: Martha Gellhorn, Dorothy Bridges and Hemingway’s The Fifth Column.” Modern Drama. 53:1 (Spring 2010): 57-75.

Jackson-Schebetta, Lisa. “The Cuban Diaspora, International Political Power and the Federal Theatre Project’s Ybor City Production of “Eso no puede ocurrir aquí.” Presented at the American Society for Theatre Research Conference, Seattle WA, November 2010.

Jackson-Schebetta, Lisa. “Bodies for the Republic(s): Soldiers, Public Performance and the Nation.” Presented at the Mid-America Theatre Conference, Cleveland OH, March 2010.

Peterson, Dave. "The Memories and Histories of Sondheim’s Assassins and Follies." Presented at the Mid-Atlantic Popular/American Culture Association, Alexandria VA, October 28-30, 2010.

Peterson, Dave. "Shakespeare’s Globe: Collisions of Past and Present in Contemporary Globe Performance." Presented at the Architecture Working Group at International Federation for Theatre Research, Munich, Germany, July 25-28 2010.

Peterson, Dave. "Reconstructing Performance Authority at Shakespeare’s Globe." Presented at The CUNY Graduate Center's 2010 Graduate Student Conference (Re)Making (Re)presentation, New York NY, May 3, 2010.

Peterson, Dave. "'Mewling and Puking' or 'Good in Everything': The Power of Language to Represent and Form Reality in As You Like It." Presented at School of Arts and Science Grad Expo, University of Pittsburgh, March 2010.