Research Methods in Performance Studies

Introduction: Performance, Performativity, Research, Method

Craig Gingrich-Philbrook and Jake Simmons

Section I: Means of Making

1. Adaptation of Literature as Method: Text, Politics, and Representation

Matthew Spangler and Humaira Ghilzai

2. Methods on My Mind in the Doing of Performance and Performed Ethnography

D. Soyini Madison

3. A Critical Method for Performing Popular Texts: The Adventures of Little Red Riding Hood as Case Study

Tracy Stephenson Shaffer

4. Personal Narrative Performance Research: The Visceral, Collaborative, and Susceptible Exploration of the Stories We Tell Others

Julie-Ann Scott-Pollock

Section II: Researching Performance Cultures

5. Disability and Performance

Donna Marie Nudd

6. Expanding Frames of Analysis in Stand-up Comedy

Dustin Goltz

7. The Ethnography of Poetry: Or, Slamming Methods

Javon Johnson

8. Performance Space and the Architecture of Experience

Nathan Stucky

9. Beyond the Bounds of the Classroom: Facilitating Studentâs Public Performances

Charles Parrott

Section III: Researching Performers/Performers Researching

10. Mistranslation as Method in Artistic Research

Alys Longley

11. Performative Autoethnography: A Matterphor of Things

Tami Spry

12. Race and Social Justice: Performing the Radical Imagination

Amber Johnson

13. Critical/Performance Ethnography, Oral History Performance, and Listening: Notes on Methods for Living Research

Daniel B. Coleman

14. The Heroâs Journey: Creating a Theatre/Storytelling Performance Inspired by the Work of Joseph Campbell

John S. Gentile

Section IV: Emerging and Enduring Contexts

15. Posthumanist Performance Studies: Four Practical Assertions

Travis Brisini

16. Tourism

Rebecca Walker

17. Performance, Technologies, Ontologies: The Video Performance Does Not Stand Alone

Lyndsay Michalik Gratch

18. Navigating Place as a Performance Studies Researcher: Waypoints and Breadcrumbs

Shauna M. MacDonald

Conclusion: Observations on Performance Studies Research and Methods

Jake Simmons