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Profile: EJ Westlake
Title: Associate Professor of English/Theatre
Degree:
PhD, University of Wisconsin-Madison 1997
PhD, University of Wisconsin-Madison 1997
Contact Info
Office:
2433 Walgreen Drama Center (north campus)
Phone:
734-764-3118
Uniqname:
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Research Interests
Primary Interests
Nationalism, Postcolonialism, Nicaraguan Drama, Dance, Postmodernism, Pedagogy
Secondary Interests
Arts Advocacy, Public and Community-based Performance, Theatre and Social Change
Publications
Books
Political Performances: Theory and Practice. Susan C. Haedicke, Deirdre Heddon, Avraham Oz, and E.J. Westlake, eds. New York and Amsterdam: Rodopi Press, 2009.
Our Land is Made of Courage and Glory: the Nationalist Drama of Nicaragua and Guatemala. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2005.
Book Chapters
"El Güegüence, post-Sandinista Nicaragua, and the Resistant Politics of Dancing" Dance Research Journal. Volume 43, Number 1, 2011 Supplement
"No Hint as to the Author is Anywhere Found: Problems of Using 19th-century Ethnography in Latin American Theatre History." Theatre Historiography: Critical Interventions. Henry Bial, Scott Magelsson, eds. University of Michigan Press, 2010.
"The Güegüence Effect: The National Character and the Nicaraguan Political Process." Political Performances. Susan C. Haedicke, Deirdre Heddon, Avraham Oz, and E.J. Westlake, eds. New York and Amsterdam: Rodopi Press, 2009.
“(Re)writing the Nation from the Margins: The Case of Ocho de Marzo.” in Casting Gender: Women and Performance in Intercultural Contexts. Eds. Laura Lengel. Peter Lang: New York, 2005.
"Children of Tomorrow: Seattle Public Theatre's Work with Homeless Youth." in Performing Democracy: International Perspectives on Urban Community-based Performance. Eds. Susan Haedicke and Tobin Nellhaus. U. of Michigan Press: Ann Arbor, 2001.
Articles in Scholarly Journals
"Friend Me if you Facebook: Generation Y and Performative Surveillance." TDR. 52:4, 2008.
"Finding the Time Capsule: Enabling Undergraduates to Know What They Know." Youth Theatre Journal. v. 21, 2007.
"The Bomb that Blew-Up Seattle: Jason Sprinkle and the Performance of Municipal Identity." TDR 46:1, 2002.
"Performing the Nation in Manuel Galich's El tren amarillo" Latin American Theatre Review. Spring, 1998.
"The Yellow of Jaundice: Chinese Dis/Ease in The Yellow Train." Theatre Insight. 14 (Summer 1995).
Book and Performance Reviews
Radical Nostalgia: Spanish Civil War Commemoration in America. Peter Glazer. Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2005. Modern Drama. 51:3 (2008)
Imperialism and Theatre. Ed. J. Ellen Gainor. London: Routledge, 1995. Theatre Journal 48:4 (1996).
Hamletangoby Susanna Cook (Wow Café, March 2002) and Maria del Bosco by Richard Foreman (Ontological-Hysterical Theatre, March 2002). Theatre Journal 55:2 (2002).
Political Performances: Theory and Practice. Susan C. Haedicke, Deirdre Heddon, Avraham Oz, and E.J. Westlake, eds. New York and Amsterdam: Rodopi Press, 2009.
Our Land is Made of Courage and Glory: the Nationalist Drama of Nicaragua and Guatemala. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2005.
Book Chapters
"El Güegüence, post-Sandinista Nicaragua, and the Resistant Politics of Dancing" Dance Research Journal. Volume 43, Number 1, 2011 Supplement
"No Hint as to the Author is Anywhere Found: Problems of Using 19th-century Ethnography in Latin American Theatre History." Theatre Historiography: Critical Interventions. Henry Bial, Scott Magelsson, eds. University of Michigan Press, 2010.
"The Güegüence Effect: The National Character and the Nicaraguan Political Process." Political Performances. Susan C. Haedicke, Deirdre Heddon, Avraham Oz, and E.J. Westlake, eds. New York and Amsterdam: Rodopi Press, 2009.
“(Re)writing the Nation from the Margins: The Case of Ocho de Marzo.” in Casting Gender: Women and Performance in Intercultural Contexts. Eds. Laura Lengel. Peter Lang: New York, 2005.
"Children of Tomorrow: Seattle Public Theatre's Work with Homeless Youth." in Performing Democracy: International Perspectives on Urban Community-based Performance. Eds. Susan Haedicke and Tobin Nellhaus. U. of Michigan Press: Ann Arbor, 2001.
Articles in Scholarly Journals
"Friend Me if you Facebook: Generation Y and Performative Surveillance." TDR. 52:4, 2008.
"Finding the Time Capsule: Enabling Undergraduates to Know What They Know." Youth Theatre Journal. v. 21, 2007.
"The Bomb that Blew-Up Seattle: Jason Sprinkle and the Performance of Municipal Identity." TDR 46:1, 2002.
"Performing the Nation in Manuel Galich's El tren amarillo" Latin American Theatre Review. Spring, 1998.
"The Yellow of Jaundice: Chinese Dis/Ease in The Yellow Train." Theatre Insight. 14 (Summer 1995).
Book and Performance Reviews
Radical Nostalgia: Spanish Civil War Commemoration in America. Peter Glazer. Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2005. Modern Drama. 51:3 (2008)
Imperialism and Theatre. Ed. J. Ellen Gainor. London: Routledge, 1995. Theatre Journal 48:4 (1996).
Hamletangoby Susanna Cook (Wow Café, March 2002) and Maria del Bosco by Richard Foreman (Ontological-Hysterical Theatre, March 2002). Theatre Journal 55:2 (2002).
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