... teachers better address student needs. Complex personhood Haunting Pedagogy Performance Survivor For instance, I grew up with two father figures in my life, one of whom was abusive. I learned many things from both, but my love of and respect for nature was developed and fostered by my abuser. I...

...Patricia A. Suchy Originally delivered as a response to Rachel N. Hastings's performance of “Black Human” at the Opening Session of the 2017 National Communication Association annual convention, this essay celebrates the reclaiming of the prominence of the practice of performing poetry...

...A. B. This short poetic response explores my experience performing the play Heavier than Air as a queer teacher; folding my body into these characters, feeling the tensions in the stories, and their resonances with my own. The form of the poem mirrors the process of folding the paper airplanes...

...Rachel N. Hastings The MenStroll Cycles is a dramatic poemplay examining the sociopolitical state of Black men in America. Written, produced, and curated by Rachel N. Hastings, The MenStroll Cycles uses literary, performance, and digital art to interrogate antiBlack social conditions and to educate...

...Jeffrey Q. McCune, Jr. This essay represents the Closing Remarks for the Opening Session of the 2017 National Communication Association annual convention. It attempts to make usable the profound thoughts and rhetoric experienced in a session of performative pleasure and protest. © 2018...

... page, http://www.ucpress.edu/journals.php?p=reprints . 2018 Racism Performance Moor Solidarity Rachel N. Hastings's powerful poem “Black Human” invokes the Black cultural memory of a time before, before modernity, when Black humans were not confined to any particular place or continent...

...Alex Davenport This essay works with and through the process of translation to examine Heavier than Air , a play by Anne Harris and Stacy Holman Jones. As a play based on interviews with queer Australian teachers, but performed in multiple locations, the ways the text moved across cultures...

..., but also be . © 2018 by the Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. Request permission to photocopy or reproduce article content at the University of California Press's Reprints and Permissions web page, http://www.ucpress.edu/journals.php?p=reprints . 2018 Performance...

...Devika Chawla Rooted in the conceptual and received notion that personal histories are necessarily imbricated in larger historical, social, and political narratives, “My History of History” is a performance forum that engages individual and collective responses to pivotal historical moments. Each...

...Sidi Becar Meyara This is a narration of the centrality of 9/11 in a Muslim's life, highlighting its continuous presence by drawing connections between the present and the past. Beginning with listening to radios as a teenager, an experience that I shared with my father, this performance script...

...Alane Presswood This performative essay explores the connections between beloved popular culture figures and individual experiences of growth and change through my simultaneous experience of the death of singer Michael Jackson and the final weeks I lived at home with my parents. Performance...

...Krystal Bresnahan; Alyse Keller Historically, scholars have treated photography and performance as separate aesthetic entities. However, the authors show how combining a performance-based analysis with photo elicitation can generate new possibilities for remembering family experiences of divorce...

...Lindy Grief Davidson Parents of seriously ill children struggle to traverse both the physical and emotional spaces of hospitals. Off the Map , a performance born out of an ethnographic research project and personal experience, employs a digital map to explore the institutional guidance offered...

...Sharrell D. Luckett; Audrey Edwards; Megan J. Stewart In 2013, Sharrell D. Luckett formed the Performance Studies & Arts Research Collective, which encourages members to explore their identities through the arts. Around this time, Audrey Edwards and Megan J. Stewart—both African American...

.... In the tradition of good scholarship, Robin's work invites me to unnerve my own whitegirlness, to unsettle this racially reifying practice and, with all of the pedagogical potentiality of performance, hopefully, to engage a conversation privileging a continued critical and communal reflexivity. © 2015...

...Ruth Nicole Brown; Durell Maurice Callier; Porshe R. Garner; Dominique C. Hill; Porsha Olayiwola; Jessica L. Robinson This performative text places in conversation the work of Saving Our Lives Hear Our Truths (SOLHOT), a practice of black girlhood celebration, with Robin M. Boylorn's Sweetwater...

...Aubrey A. Huber; Chris McRae In this essay, the relationship between directing and critical approaches to pedagogy is considered as a starting place for theorizing directing as an act of critical performative pedagogy. Performance and directing create opportunities for relational, collaborative...

... The Regents of the University of California 2014 Performance threshold stage edge A Knock at the Door: Speculations on Theatres and Thresholds Craig Gingrich-Philbrook The author uses his long experience with his departmental theatre as a way to consider Howard Barker s valorization of the theatre...