Research

Books

Karaoke Idols: Popular Music and the Performance of Identity. Bristol and Chicago: Intellect Books, University of Chicago Press, 2015. link

Book Chapters 

“‘Fables of the Reconstruction’ (The Postmodern Danger): Or, How to Make Art in a ‘Post-Truth’ World.” Stages of Resistance: Theatre and Politics in the Capitalocene. Eds. Caridad Svich and Olivia George. NoPassport Press. South Gate, CA, 2018, pp. 21-29. link

“Beautiful Strangeness: The Plays of Caridad Svich.” JARMAN (all this maddening beauty) and other plays. Ed. Caridad Svich. Bristol and Chicago: Intellect Books, University of Chicago Press, 2016. link

Articles

“Invasion, Replacement, and Colonial Anxiety in The War of the Worlds.” Performance Research. 28: 3 (2024), 90-97 link

“Karaoke Instagram: Amateur Desire and the Performance Economy.” Performance Research. 25:1 (2020), 44-47 link

“Oceanic Geographies: The Fluid Dramaturgy of Caridad Svich.” Performance Research. 21:2 (2016), 118-124 link

“The Dream Medium: Robert Edmond Jones’ Theatre of the Future.” International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media. 12:1 (2016), 1-10 link

“Samuel Beckett and the Presence of Memory.” Colloquy: text theory critique. 29 (2015): 29-47 link

“Sometimes a Microphone is Just a Microphone: Karaoke and the Performance of Gender.” Popular Music Studies. 26:1 (2014): 64-81 link

“Liveness Anxiety: Karaoke and the Performance of Class.” Popular Entertainment Studies. Newcastle, Australia. 1:2 (2010): 61-77 link

“Dancing into the Heart of Darkness: Modern Variations and Innovations of the Thai Shadow Theatre.” Puppetry International. 26 (Fall and Winter 2009): 24-25 link

“The Auslander Test: Or, ‘Of Bots and Humans.’” International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media. 4.2/3 (2007): 181-188 link

“Spectacle as Resistance: Performing Tree Ordination in Thailand.” Journal of Religion and Theatre. 2 (Fall 2006): 91-103 link

“Auslander’s Robot.” International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media. 2.1 (2005): 3-21 link

Essays

“Re-imagining ‘America’ in the Heart of the Pandemic.” Global Performance Studies. 3:2 (2020) link

“‘Fables of the Reconstruction’ (The Postmodern Danger): Or, How to Make Art in a ‘Post-Truth’ World.” Stages of Resistance. New York: The Lark Theatre. (May 24, 2017). link

“The Top Ten Reasons Why Theatre is Still Important in the Twenty-First Century.” TCG Circle. New York: Theatre Communications Group. (July 1, 2014). link

Editorials

“Introduction: Theatre Goes Digital.” Co-author with Maria Chatzichristodoulou, Nick Hunt, Peter Kuling, and Toni Sant. International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media. 18.1 (2022). link

“Antemortem: Collaborative Research in Theatre and Performance Studies.” Co-author with Felipe Cervera, Kyoko Iwaki, Eero Laine, and Kristof van Baarle. Global Performance Studies. 4.2 (2021) link

“Postmortem: On Process and Collaborative Editing.” Co-author with Felipe Cervera, Kyoko Iwaki, Eero Laine, and Kristof van Baarle. Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism. 36.1 (2021) link

“The Performance Network.” Global Performance Studies. 3:1 (2019). link

“What’s Your Position?” Global Performance Studies. 1:2 (2018) link

“Hacking Performance Studies.” Global Performance Studies. 1:1 (2017) link

Encyclopedias 

Music in American Life: An Encyclopedia of the Songs, Styles, Stars, and Stories that Shaped Our Culture. Contributing Author for sections on “Karaoke,” “National Identity,” “Interactive Video Games,” “Virtual Bands,” and “Virtual Communities and Social Networking.” Ed. Jacqueline Edmondson. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2013. link

“European Theatre and Performance.” Greenwood Encyclopedia of World Popular Culture. 3. Ed. Gary Hoppenstand. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2007, pp. 363-383. link

Book Reviews

The President Electric: Ronald Reagan and the Politics of Performance, by Timothy Raphael. Theatre Journal. 64.3 (2012): 465-466 link

The Shadow Puppet Theatre of Malaysia: A Study of Wayang Kulit with Performance Scripts and Puppet Designs, by Beth Osnes. Kajian Malaysia (Journal of Malaysian Studies). 30.1 (2012): 145-147 link

Journal Issues

“Decolonization and Performance Studies.” Global Performance Studies. 5:1-2 (2022). Co-editor with Nesreen N. Hussein, Felipe Cervera, and Theron Schmidt. link

“Theatre Goes Digital.” International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media. 18.1 (2022). Co-editor with Maria Chatzichristodoulou, Nick Hunt, Peter Kuling, and Toni Sant. link

“Collaborative Research in Theatre and Performance Studies.” Global Performance Studies. 4:2 (2021) and Journal of Dramatic Theatre and Criticism 36.1 (2021). Co-editor with Felipe Cervera, Kyoko Iwaki, Eero Laine, and Kristof van Baarle. link

“Elasticity.” Global Performance Studies. 4:1 (2021). Co-editor with P. Megan Andrews, Bruce Barton, Natalia Esling, and Pil Hansen. link

“Openings.” Global Performance Studies. 3:2 (2020). Editor. link

“Performance as Network: Arts, City, Culture.” Global Performance Studies. 3:1 (2019). Editor. link

“Future Now.” Global Performance Studies. 2:2 (2019). Co-editor with Felipe Cervera, Shawn Chua, Yiota Demetriou, Areum Jeong, Eero Laine, Azadeh Sharifi, Evelyn Wan, and Asher Warren. link

“OverFlow.” Global Performance Studies. 2:1 (2018). Editor. link

“Performance Climates.” Global Performance Studies. 1:2 (2018). Co-editor with Eddie Paterson. link

“Looking Back on Fluid States – Performances of unKnowing.” Global Performance Studies. 1:1 (2017). Co-editor with Maaike Bleeker. link

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