Mapping Landscapes for Performance as Research: Scholarly Acts and Creative Cartographies

Although the sciences have long understood the value of practice-based research, the arts and humanities have tended to structure a gap between practice and analysis. This book examines differences and similarities between Performance as Research practices in various community and national contexts, mapping out the landscape of this new field.

SHANNON ROSE RILEY has a PhD in Performance Studies and Critical Theory and an MFA in Studio Art and Art History. She is Assistant Professor of Humanities and Coordinator of the Creative Arts Program at San Jos State University, USA. Her scholarly work has been published in several peer review journals and her performance art and visual work has been staged and exhibited internationally.

LYNETTE HUNTER is Professor of the History of Rhetoric and Performance at the University of California, Davis, USA. Previous positions include the Professor of Rhetoric at the University of Leeds (UK) and Professor of Rhetoric at Gresham College, London. She has published numerous books and edited collections in the areas of rhetoric, literature, and performance studies. She is also a performer with an international reputation for theory as performance.