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Telephone : +44 (0)20 8392 3851
Email : J.Parker-starbuck@roehampton.ac.uk
Department : Drama, Theatre and Performance
Office location : Jubilee 209

Qualifications

Ph.D., City University of New York (CUNY) Graduate Center, New York City, 2003

PGCHE, Roehampton University, 2008

About

Jennifer is a Reader in Performance and Cultural Practices in the Department of Drama, Theatre, and Performance Studies. She is currently the Undergraduate Programme Convenor for Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies.

Her work has focused upon the historical and theoretical implications of new media/multimedia and its relationship to the live body in performance. This work with multimedia has expanded to include work on cyborg performance, trauma and memory in performance, dis/ability in performance, feminism, animality and the non-human, and live art practices.

She has studied avant-garde and experimental theatre in both theory and practice and has a degree from Tisch School of the Arts where she attended the Experimental Theatre Wing and the Directing Programme.

She is also interested in practices and applications of contemporary acting, directing, and theatre-making as well as contemporary American and European performance.

Research Interests

Supervisory interests extend to multimedia/technological practices, animality and non-human performance, performance and trauma/memory, contemporary avant-garde performance, American performance, as well as more general issues of pedagogy, critical writing, and interdisciplinary performance studies work.

Research Projects Undertaken

Submitted: AHRC bid, "Performing Animality"

Editorial Positions:
Assistant Editor, PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art, Bonnie Marranca, Editor

Associate Editor, International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media, Dave Collins, Editor

Contributing Editor, Western European Stages, Marvin Carlson, Editor

Membership of Professional Bodies

ATHE (Association for Theatre in Higher Education): Performance Studies Focus Group Representative 2004-2006; PSFG Preconference co-founder and organizer 2003-2006; Conference Committee member 2007, New Orleans

ASTR (American Society for Theatre Research)

TaPRA (Theatre and Performance Research Association): Co-Convenor with Roberta Mock, Performance and the Body Working Group

PSi (Performance Studies international)

Consultancy Experience

Board Member, Curious, Leslie Hill and Helen Paris, directors.

Teaching Interests

Jennifer teaches both theoretical/historical, and practical based courses such as: New Media and Performance, Approaches to Acting, Directing, Feminism and Performance, Live Art and Performance, Ethics and Analysing Performance, and Metatheatre.

She also works to supervise and devise productions with students in the Studio Theatre Production class.

Publications

“The Play-Within-the-Film-Within-the-Play’s the Thing: Re-transmitting Analogue Bodies in the Wooster Group’s Hamlet,”International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media, Volume 5, Issue 1, June 2009
“Pig Bodies and Vegetative States: Diagnosing the Symptoms of a Culture of Excess,”Women and Performance: A Journal of Feminist Theory Journal, Volume 18, Issue 2, July 2008
“Becoming-Animate: On the Performed Limits of ‘Human,’”Theatre Journal, December 2006
(2009) “The play-within-the-film-within-the-play’s the thing: re-transmitting analogue bodies in the Wooster Group’s Hamlet” , International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media,, 5.1.
(2008) “Pig Bodies and Vegetative States: Diagnosing the Symptoms of a Culture of Excess”, Women and Performance: A Journal of Feminist Theory, 18.2.
(2006) “Becoming-Animate: On the Performed Limits of ‘Human’” , Theatre Journal, 58.4.
(2005) "London Calling", PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art, XXVII, No. 3, co-authored with Josh Abrams, 38-44.

(2004) “Global Friends: Alladeen at the Brooklyn Academy of Music” , [i]PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art[/] , 77.
Chapter: with Roberta Mock, “Researching the Body in Performance,” in Research Methods in Theatre Studies, eds. Baz Kershaw and Helen Nicholson, Edinburgh University Press, 2011
“Musings on Multimedia: The Cyborg Theatre and Beyond,” in Live Movies: A Field Guide to New Media for the Performing Arts, edited by Kirby Malone and Gail Scott White. (An NEA sponsored project, published by Multimedia Performance Studio, George Mason University, VA.), 2006.
“Disembodied Sites: The Builders’ Association and the Performance of Globalization” chapter in Performance and Place, eds. Leslie Hill and Helen Paris, Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.
“Framing the Fragments: The Wooster Group’s Use of Technology,” chapter in The Wooster Group and its Traditions, ed., Johan Callens, Peter Lang/Presses Interuniversitaires Européennes, in series
“Dramaturgies: Texts, Cultures, and Performances,” edited by Marc Maufort, 2005.
“Shifting Strengths: The Cyborg Theatre of Cathy Weis,” chapter in Bodies in Commotion, eds. Philip Auslander and Carrie Sandahl, University of Michigan Press, 2005.
(2005) "Shifting Strengths: The Cyborg Theater of Cathy Weis", Bodies in Commotion: Disability and Performance, eds. Carrie Sandahl and Philip Auslander , 95-108.
(2004) "Framing the Fragments: The Wooster Group's Use of Technology", The Wooster Group and its Traditions, Johan Callens, ed., 217-228.
Invited Keynote Speaker, (re)Performing the Posthuman - a conference on performance arts and posthumanism, University of Sussex, 21-22 May 2010
Invited Respondent, “Dealing with the Digital” TaPRA Postgraduate Symposium, 20th March 2010, Bedford Square, London
Co-Convenor with Katherine Mezur, “Amping it Up: Power and Affect in Inter-media Dance Theatre” Seminar Session for ASTR/CORD (American Society for Theatre Research and Congress on Research in Dance) joint conference, Seattle, WA 18-21 November 2010.
Co-Convenor with Roberta Mock, Performance and the Body Working Group TaPRA (Theatre and Performance Research Association) Conference, 9-11 September 2010, Cardiff School of Creative and Cultural Industries, University of Glamorgan
ATHE 2010 3-8 August, Los Angeles, CA
— “Media Matters” Seminar, Co-convenor with Sarah Bay-Cheng, Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE 2010).
—Invited to Introduce Marianne Weems of the Builders Association, “Fresh Print” Series
—Invited Respondent, Pedagogies of Survival II, Theory and Criticism Focus Group
—Invited Speaker, “Getting My Feet Wet: Integrating the Spectator’s Body in LIFT’s Multimedia Performances” for the Performance Studies Focus Group Preconference, “Economies of Appearances”, Los Angeles, CA, August 2010
—Co-Convenor, Mixed-Media Performance Working Group, with Jessica Chalmers, for the Performance Studies Focus Group Preconference, ATHE, August 2010
Panel Chair and Discussant for “Spectacular Erotics: Ethnographic Methodologies in Sexualized Spaces” Society of Dance History Scholars Annual Conference, University of Surrey, Guilford and The Place, London, UK 8-11 July 2010
Co-Convenor, Body and Performance Working Group TaPRA (Theatre and Performance Research Association) Conference, University of Plymouth, 7-9 September 2009, Paper: “Reflective Viewing: Orlan’s Hybridized Harlequin, Bacon, Banksy, and the Animal-Human Divide”
Panel organizer, “Performing Animality, Risking Hybridity.” Paper: “Reflective Viewing: Orlan’s Hybridized Harlequin, the Forms of Francis Bacon, and the Animal-Human Divide” Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE 2009), New York, NY 8-11 August 2009
Co-Convenor, Mixed-Media Performance Working Group, with Jessica Chalmers, for the Performance Studies Focus Group Preconference, ATHE 2009, NY, NY, 7 July 2009
“Reflective Viewing: Orlan’s Hybridized Harlequin, the Forms of Francis Bacon, and the Animal-Human Divide” PSi 15, Zagreb, Croatia, 24-29 June 2009
Participant in Seminar: Unsettling Disciplines: Theorizing Theatre and Film/Cinema and Performance, “Unsettled Bodies: The Wooster Group’s Hamlet as Cultural (Dis) Embodiment” American Society of Theatre Research (ASTR), Boston, MA November 2008
Co-Convenor, “The Sited Body,” Performance and the Body Working Group TaPRA (Theatre and Performance Research Association) Conference, University of Leeds, 3-5 September 2008
“Visible/Invisible Architectures of Presence,” PSi 14, Copenhagen, August 2008
“Praxis, Provocation, and Pedagogy”, PSi 14, Copenhagen, August 2008
“Seeing Through the Lens: Producing Labor in New Media Productions,” Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE 2008), Denver, CO July 2008
“Sight and Sound: Siting the Psycho-Phenomenological Subject in Techno-Theatre,” in panel on New Media, Performance Studies Preconference at ATHE, Denver, CO July 2008.
Co-Convenor, Mixed-Media Performance Working Group, with Jason Farman, for the Performance Studies Focus Group Preconference, “The Politics of Embodiment” ATHE 2008, Denver, CO, July 2008
A Proliferation of Pigs: Intersections in Art, Waste, and Bodies, PSi 13, Performance Studies International Conference, New York University, 8-11 November 2007
ReTransmitting Bodies: The Wooster Group’s Hamlet as Cultural (Dis) Embodiment, TaPRA (Theatre and Performance Research Association) Conference, University of Birmingham, 7-9 September 2007
The Play-within-the-film-within-the-play’s the thing: Retransmitting Performance in the Wooster Group’s Hamlet in Panel “Re-Performance Transmissions and Mutations: Regenerating Performance in the work of Socìetas Raffaello Sanzio, Marina Abramović, and The Wooster Group,” Association for Theatre in Higher Education(ATHE 2007), New Orleans, LA July 2007
Invited Respondent, “Local Intersections: ATHE Walks New Orleans,” ATHE 2007, New Orleans, LA July 2007
Co-Convenor, Mixed-Media Performance Working Group, with Jessica Chalmers, for the Performance Studies Focus Group Preconference, “Regeneration and Return: Performance Studies in New Orleans” ATHE 2007, New Orleans, LA July 2007
Monograph: Cyborg Theatre: Corporeal/Technological Intersections in Multimedia Performance, Palgrave 2011
Eds., Kirby Malone and Gail Scott White (2006) “Musings on Multimedia: The Cyborg Theatre and Beyond”, Live Movies: A Field Guide to New Media for the Performing Arts,.