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lnielsen@macalester.edu
Title: Assistant Professor
Courses Taught: Performance Theory Seminar; Sources of Global Performance; The Oral History Project
Areas of Special Interest and Training: Critiques of
subjectivity, movement, and the state; globalization and cultural studies; contra-area studies Americas; gender and feminist criticism; orality, ethnography, and multimedia documentary methodologies.
Publications:
“At the Threshold of Authority: Bringing Oral History Techniques (and Feminist Thinking) to Comparative Theatre Studies” (in process)
“Institutionalizing Ensembles: Thinking Theatre, Performance, and ‘the Law,’” Journal of Law, Culture, and the Humanities, special issue on the Arts, January 2008.
“Globalization and the Work of Theatre” Contemporary Theatre Review v16 n 1, special issue of on Theatre and Globalization, February 2006
“Baseball as Cultural Policy: The Law and the Anomaly of Performance”
Studies in Law, Politics, and Society v 29, 2003
“Garbage, Gone: Globalization” Women & Performance September 2002
Reviews:
TDR 183 (2007) book review: Tree: belief/culture/balance, by Ralph Lemon
Theater Journal performance review, 2005: “Charlie Victor Romeo”
Theatre Journal October 1996: Negotiating Performance: Gender, Sexuality, and Theatricality in Latin/o America by Taylor and Villegas, 1994; El Teatro Campesino: Theatre in the Chicano Movement by Broyles-González 1994; Hispanic Theatre in New York by de la Roche 1995
Degrees:
M.A. Comparative Literature, University of Minnesota, with a minor in Feminist and Gender Studies
Ph.D. Performance Studies, New York University
Awards:
Nielsen was previously in the Department of Drama at Tisch School of the Arts, New York University, where she was recognized with the David Payne Carter Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2006.
Other:
Professor Nielsen was a Fellow with The Five College’s Crossroads in the Studies of the Americas (CISA), where she taught at Hampshire and Amherst Colleges, in Western Massachusetts. In 2006 she was a participant in the Columbia University Oral History Research Institute, and her work with oral history methodologies is developing in a variety of teaching and research activities in the performing arts. In November 2007 she is the co-convener of the seminar, “Neoliberalism and Performance in the Global Market,” with Patricia Ybarra, American Society for Theatre Research (ASTR).
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