SHANNON JACKSON
SHANNON JACKSON, Richard and Rhoda Goldman Distinguished Professor in the Arts and Humanities
(and Rhetoric) Ph.D., Performance Studies, and Graduate Certificate, Women’s Studies, Northwestern University (1995). Performance theory; contemporary visual and performance art; American studies; sex/gender/race studies; history of disciplines; solo performance; new media theatre. Jackson is currently the Director of the Arts Research Center. Selected publications: Lines of Activity (2000), Honorable Mention, John Hope Franklin Prize in American Studies (ASA) and Professing Performance (2004), Best Book Prize in Theatre Studies (ATHE) and Best Book Prize in Performance Studies (NCA), plus many essays in journals of theater, performance studies, and cultural studies. Her most recent book is Social Works: Performing Art, Supporting Publics, and she is also working on a book about The Builders Association. Other awards and grants include: Lilla Heston Award for Outstanding Scholarship in Performance Studies (NCA); Junior Faculty Fellowship, Radcliffe College; the Kahan Scholar’s Prize in Theatre History (ASTR); the Spencer Foundation Dissertation fellowship; the Black Theater Network; the National Endowment for the Humanities, and several project grants from the Walter and Elise Haas Fund, UCIRA, the San Francisco Foundation, and the LEF Foundation. Selected adaptation, performance, and directing credits: White Noises, The Smell of Death and Flowers, Hull-House Women, Catastrophe, The Successful Life of 3. Jackson serves on the boards of Cal Performances, the Berkeley Art Museum, and the Berkeley Center for New Media. She serves on the editorial boards of several journals, has been a keynote speaker at a variety of international symposia, and has co-organized conferences and residencies with the Arts Research Center, The Builders Association, Touchable Stories, American Society of Theatre Research, the American Studies Association, the Women and Theatre Project, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, the Multi-campus Research Group on International Performance, and UCB’s Center for Community Innovation. Jackson was an Erasmus Mundus visiting professor in Paris at the Maison des Sciences de l’Homme Nord and at the Université Libre de Bruxelles for the 2008-09 academic year. Before moving to Berkeley, Jackson was an assistant professor of English and Literature at Harvard University from 1995 to 1998.
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