The department faculty has compiled an informative resource page with links to various sites to assist our students and alumni. It can be challenging for students studying performance studies to find specific resources that might not turn up in popular search engines, especially those that can aid in research for a course, project, job, or dissertation — and most particularly those with reference to issues of critical race theory, critical Black studies, Queer studies, Feminist theory and their concurrent intersections with other disciplines and artistic practices. We created this resource as a starting point and will (remove hoped to)expand on it over time. If you are a current faculty, student, or alumni and would like to suggest a resource link for the page, please fill out this form.
IDBEA-Oriented Bibliography in PS
Books
The Archive and the Repertoire: Performing Cultural Memory in the Americas by Diana Taylor
Disidentifications: Queers of Color and the Performance of Politics by José Esteban Muñoz
Babylon Girls: Black Women Performers and the Shaping of the Modern by Jayna Brown
Destination Culture: Tourism, Museums, and Heritage by Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett
Embodied Avatars: Genealogies of Black Feminist Art and Performance by Uri McMillan
After the Party: A Manifesto for Queer of Color Life by Joshua Chambers-Letson
After the Party: A Manifesto for Queer of Color Life by Joshua Chambers-Letson
Acts of Activism: Human Rights as Radical Performance by D. Soyini Madison
Critical Ethnography: Method, Ethics, and Performance by D. Soyini Madison
A Race So Different: Performance and Law in Asian America by Joshua Chambers-Letson
Disappearing Acts: Spectacles of Gender and Nationalism in Argentina's "Dirty War" by Diana Taylor
The Decolonized Eye: Filipino American Art and Performance by Sarita Echavez See
Love and Theft: Blackface Minstrelsy and the American Working Class by Eric Lott
Appropriating Blackness: Performance and the Politics of Authenticity by E. Patrick Johnson
Minor China: Method, Materialisms, and the Aesthetic by Hentyle Yapp
Two Spirit Acts: Queer Indigenous Performances by Jean O'Hara
Embodying Mexico: Tourism, Nationalism & Performance by Ruth Hellier-Tinoco
Traveling Spirit Masters: Moroccan Gnawa Trance and Music in the Global Marketplace by Deborah Kapchan
Divine Utterances: The Performance of Afro-Cuban Santeria by Katherine J. Hagedorn
Gendering the Spirit: Women, Religion and the Post-Colonial Response by Durre S. Ahmed
Children of the Earth Goddess: Society, Marriage and Sacrifice in the Highlands of Odisha by Roland Hardenberg
The Black Cow's Footprint: Time, Space and Music in the Lives of the Kotas of South India by Richard K. Wolf
Jewels of the Doctrine: Stories of the Saddharma Ratnavaliya by Thera Dharmasena
Unfinished Gestures: Devadasis, Memory, and Modernity in South India by Davesh Soneji
Acts of Gaiety: LGBT Performance and the Politics of Pleasure by Sara Warner
Political Performance in Syria: From the Six-Day War to the Syrian Uprising by Edward Ziter
Dissident Syria: Making Oppositional Arts Official by Miriam Cooke
Critical Theory and Performance: Revised and Enlarged Edition by Janelle Reinelt
A Sourcebook on African-American Performance: Plays, People, Movements by Annemarie Bean
Hungry Translations: Relearning the World through Radical Vulnerability by Richa Nagar
Afro-Fabulations: The Queer Drama of Black Life by Tavia Nyong’o
Folklore and Culture on the Texas-Mexican Border by Américo Paredes
Second Skin: Josephine Baker & the Modern Surface by Anne Anlin Cheng
Urban Bush Women: Twenty Years of African American Dance Theater, Community Engagement, and Working It Out by Nadine George-Graves
Modern Dance, Negro Dance: Race In Motion by Susan Manning
Sweet Tea: Black Gay Men of the South by E. Patrick Johnson
The People Have Never Stopped Dancing: Native American Modern Dance Histories by Jacqueline Shea Murphy
Staging Race: Black Performers in Turn of the Century America by Karen Sotiropoulos
Art as Performance, Story as Criticism: Reflections on Native Literary Aesthetics by Craig S. Womack
In the Break: The Aesthetics of the Black Radical Tradition by Fred Moten
Stagestruck: Theater, AIDS, and the Marketing of Gay America by Sarah Schulman
Black Performance Theory by Thomas F. DeFrantz
The Racial Mundane: Asian American Performance and the Embodied Everyday by Ju Kim
Blacktino Queer Performance by E. Patrick Johnson
The Transparent Traveler: The Performance and Culture of Airport Security by Rachel Hall
Negro Soy Yo: Hip Hop and Raced Citizenship in Neoliberal Cuba by Marc D. Perry
Remixing Reggaetón: The Cultural Politics of Race in Puerto Rico by Petra R. Rivera-Rideau
Sexual Futures, Queer Gestures, and Other Latina Longings by Juana María Rodríguez
Articulate While Black: Barack Obama, Language, and Race in the U.S. by H. Samy Alim
Black Linguistics: Language, Society and Politics in Africa and the Americas by Arnetha F. Ball
Black Talk by Geneva Smitherman
Word from the Mother: Language and African Americans by Geneva Smitherman
The Games Black Girls Play: Learning The Ropes From Double Dutch To Hip Hop by Kyra D. Gaunt
The Black Dancing Body: A Geography from Coon to Cool by Brenda Dixon Gottschild
Prophets of the Hood: Politics and Poetics in Hip Hop by Imani Perry
Africa Speaks, America Answers: Modern Jazz in Revolutionary Times by Robin D.G. Kelley
Treme: Race and Place in a New Orleans Neighborhood (Geographies of Justice and Social Transformation) by Michael E. Crutcher Jr.
Behind the Mask of the Strong Black Woman: Voice and the Embodiment of a Costly Performance by Tamara Beauboeuf-Lafontant
Outlaw Culture: Resisting Representations by bell hooks
Cities of the Dead: Circum-Atlantic Performance by Joseph Roach
Doomed by Hope: Essays on Arab Theatre by Eyad Houssami
How to Make Dances in an Epidemic: Tracking Choreography in the Age of AIDS by David Gere
Inside the Minstrel Mask: Readings in Nineteenth-Century Blackface Minstrelsy by Brooks McNamara
Dancing the New World: Aztecs, Spaniards, and the Choreography of Conquest by Paul Scolieri
Embodying Black Experience: Stillness, Critical Memory, and the Black Body by Harvey Young
Performing Mexicanidad: Vendidas y Cabareteras on the Transnational Stage by Laura G. Gutiérrez
Remedios: Stories of Earth and Iron from the History of Puertorriquenas by Aurora Levins Morales
Choreographing the Folk: The Dance Stagings of Zora Neale Hurston by Anthea Kraut
English Is Broken Here: Notes on Cultural Fusion in the Americas by Coco Fusco
Demonic Grounds: Black Women And The Cartographies Of Struggle by Katherine McKittrick
Global Divas: Filipino Gay Men in the Diaspora by Martin F. Manalansan IV
Feeling Backward: Loss and the Politics of Queer History by Heather Love
Black Queer Studies: A Critical Anthology by E. Patrick Johnson
Black Cultural Traffic: Crossroads in Global Performance and Popular Culture by Harry J. Elam Jr.
Let's Get It On: The Politics of Black Performance by Catherine Ugwu
National Abjection: The Asian American Body Onstage by Karen Shimakawa
Listening in Detail: Performances of Cuban Music by Alexandra T. Vazquez
Black Performance on the Outskirts of the Left: A History of the Impossible by Malik Gaines
Dissertations
Minding Otherwise: Autism, Disability Aesthetics, and the Performance of Neurological Difference
Hilton, Leon Julius. New York University. ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 2016.
Who do with words: Rapping a Black tongue around J. L. Austin (selected hits from 1979–1989)
Morris, Tracie. New York University. ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 2006.
“I want to be ready”: Improvised dance as a practice of freedom
Goldman, Danielle. New York University. ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 2006.
Sporting subjection, sporting subjectivity: Race, representation, and women's artistic gymnastics
Shakur-Bruno, Shani. New York University. ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 2006.
Dressing for Utopia: Fashion, Performance, and the Politics of Everyday Life in Turkey (1923-2013)
Altinay, Rustem Ertug. New York University. ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 2016.
"Revelations": The choreographies of Alvin Ailey
DeFrantz, Thomas Faburn. New York University. ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 1997.
Lepecki, Andre Torres. New York University. ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 2001.
Gittens, Angela D. New York University. ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 2008.
Wandering: Between performance and philosophy
Cervenak, Sarah Jane. New York University. ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 2005.
Dancing Haiti in the Break: The Labors and the Grounds of Dance in Haiti and its Diasporas
Chapman, Dasha A. New York University. ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 2015.
Dark matter in b-boying cyphers: Race and global connection in hip hop
Johnson, Imani Kai. ProQuest, Ann Arbor MI, 0, 2010.
Becoming Collective: Relational Cartographies of Creación Colectiva in Latin America
Robles-Moreno, Irma Leticia. New York University. ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 2017.
Uncertain & Uncollectible: Jack Smith Performs the “Hatred of Capitalism”
Lubin-Levy, Joshua. New York University. ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 2020.
Caring Performance: Enduring Attrition in Queer and Feminist Asian America
McMaster, James. New York University. ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 2019.
Choreographing Chineseness: Global cities and the performance of ethnicity
Kwan, SanSan. New York University. ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 2003.
Blue magic: Stardom, soul music and illumination
King, Jason Gregory. New York University. ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 2002.
Institutes and Centers
Professional Associations
NYU Library Research Guides
Anarchist Collections in the Tamiment Library
Asian/Pacific/American Studies
Downtown Collection at the Fales Library
Native American and Indigenous Studies
Performing Arts Administration
Riot Grrrl Collection at the Fales Library
South Asia Gender and Sexuality
South Asian Immigrants and Gender and Sexuality
Women's, Gender, and Queer History at Tamiment Library