I am so humbled and honored to have been asked to put together a proposal for a conference panel at this year’s ASTR together with inimitable burlesque and striptease experts Kirsten Pullen and Jessica Berson. (Don’t miss Jessica’s new book The Naked Result: How Exotic Dance Became Big Business which promises to be a field-changer!) […]
In November, I attended ASTR (American Society for Theatre Research), an incredibly inspiring conference in the field of theatre and performance studies. The theme of the conference this year was “Debating the Stakes in Theatre and Performance Scholarship,” and panels ranged from debating food in performance (the steaks in theatre and performance…) to the politics […]
I created a word cloud from the 300 most common words in the titles of the talks and papers at ASTR this year. I removed the words “theatre” and “performance” as these would have dominated the visualization entirely. There are some really interesting interpretations of this visualization, I believe, and some conclusions to be drawn. […]
In this post, I will describe the process of bringing tweets from over the past year into a single heat map with interactive (clickable) tweets displaying more information. Most importantly perhaps, in what follows I will also readily discuss the flaws and problems of the methodology, in order to hopefully gain some insights into how […]
Self-identified male bodies in burlesque has a history that goes further back than is normally considered in accounts of burlesque history and are an under-theorized absence in nearly all accounts of burlesque within Theatre and Performance Studies. More general studies of striptease, as well, do not normally focus on male bodies with a few notable […]
I am flying out to ASTR next week and am still wrapping up my blog entry for the working group. Some changes in my life have made it hard for me at times to focus on work matters after finishing and passing my comprehensive exams. But the paper is coming along — it will be cross-posted […]
I just submitted my first project proposal ever to ASTR—American Society for Theatre Researchers for this year’s conference in Seattle, WA Portland, OR (edit: June 24). The conference is organized in working groups around certain topics, all with processes and structure for presentations that are different. This year, I want to participate and thus submitted […]