REBECCA ROSSEN Department of Theatre and Dance Performance as Public Practice Program University of Texas at Austin 1 University Station D3900 Austin, TX 78712 [email protected] RESEARCH INTERESTS AND FIELDS Dance history and theory, modern and postmodern dance, physical performance, theatrical representations of identity, performance studies, American studies, gender studies, Jewish studies, cultural studies EDUCATION 2006 Ph.D., Northwestern University, Interdisciplinary Ph.D. Program in Theatre and Drama, Evanston, IL (NU); Certificate in Gender Studies 1990 B.A., Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT APPOINTMENTS 2015–present Associate Professor, Dept. of Theatre and Dance, University of Texas at Austin (UT) • Core Faculty, Schusterman Center for Jewish Studies (SCJS) • Affiliate Faculty, Center for Women’s and Gender Studies (CWGS) • Affiliate Faculty, American Studies Department 2016–17 Division Head, Performance Studies and Pedagogy, Department of Theatre and Dance, UT 2008–2015 Assistant Professor, Dept. of Theatre and Dance, UT • Core Faculty, Schusterman Center for Jewish Studies (SCJS) • Affiliate Faculty, Center for Women’s and Gender Studies (CWGS) • Affiliate Faculty, American Studies Department 2008 Adjunct Lecturer, Theater and Performance Studies Program, University of Chicago 2005–08 Adjunct Lecturer, Gender Studies Program, Theater Department, and the School of Continuing Studies, Northwestern University 2004 Visiting Assistant Professor, Dance Department, George Mason University 1993–98 Adjunct Instructor, Dance, Theater, and Liberal Arts Departments, Columbia College Chicago ADDITIONAL PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE 2001–07 Founder, Artistic Director, TanzTeam DanceTheater, Chicago 1999 Performer, Margaret Jenkins Dance Company, San Francisco 1996–99 Co-Founder, Co-Director, Curator, Movable Beast Fringe Festival, Chicago 1996–97 Co-Founder, Choreographer, Performer, Loop Troop Dance Company, Chicago 1992–95 Performer, Cook County Theatre Department (co-founded by Richard Maxwell of the New York City Players), Chicago 1990–95 Performer, Hedwig Dances, Chicago 1990–2003 Guest Artist with Pedro Alejandro, Timothy Buckley, Anthony Gongora, Ishmael Houston- Jones, Sally Silvers, XSight! Performance Group, Smith/Wymore Disappearing Acts, Audio Gruppe (Germany), Annat Shamgar & Guests (Israel), and Baldanza (Italy). Rossen CV 1 NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS, AND AWARDS 2015 Oscar Brockett Book Prize, Congress on Research in Dance ($1000, to be awarded at Pomona in November 2016) • Awarded for best book in dance published during the three previous years. Special Citation for Dancing Jewish, de la Torre Bueno Book Prize®, Society for Dance History Scholars ($500, awarded in Athens, Greece) 2012 National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend Grant ($6000 for Dancing Jewish) • One of two faculty members nominated by UT to apply for this grant. • Out of 992 NEH applicants, 84 were awarded grants. Only two went to dance history. 2010–11 Research Grant, Lucius N. Littauer Foundation, New York ($10,000 for Dancing Jewish) • This foundation supports research in education and Jewish studies. They rarely support research outside of New York City. UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HONORS AND AWARDS 2016–17 John D. Murchison Fellowship in Fine Arts, College of Fine Arts ($5000). 2015 Regents’ Outstanding Teaching Award, University of Texas system-wide honor ($25,000) • Most prestigious teaching award for the entire UT system 2012–13 Lucia, John, and Melissa Gilbert Teaching Excellence Award, Center for Women’s and Gender Studies, College of Liberal Arts, UT • The award honors one faculty member each year with an outstanding record of undergraduate and/or graduate teaching in Women's and Gender Studies. Teaching Excellence Award, Department of Theater & Dance, UT ($2500) 2010–11 New Faculty Development Fellow, Center for Women’s and Gender Studies, UT ($2000) UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS (PI) 2015–16 Special Research Grant, Office of Vice President for Research, UT ($750 book research) Travel Grant, Schusterman Center for Jewish Studies, UT ($750 for conference travel) Travel Grant, Graduate School, UT ($1200 for conference travel) 2014–15 Special Research Grant, Office of Vice President for Research, UT ($750 to travel to New York City and present at the 92Y) Travel Grant, Schusterman Center for Jewish Studies, UT ($750 for 92Y engagement) Travel Grant, Graduate School, UT ($1200 to present at the Congress on Research in Dance and Society of Dance History Scholars) 2013–14 Travel Grant, Schusterman Center for Jewish Studies, UT ($750 to present at the Biennial Scholars Conference in American Jewish History) Travel Grant, Graduate School, UT ($1200 to present at the Association for Jewish Studies and the Biennial Scholars Conference in American Jewish History) 2012–13 Subvention Grant, Office of Vice President for Research, UT ($5000 for Dancing Jewish) Summer Research Assignment, Graduate School, UT (summer salary to revise book) Special Research Grant, Office of Vice President for Research, UT ($750) Faculty Travel Grant (to present at Association for Jewish Studies conference) 2011–12 Summer Research Assignment, Graduate School, UT ($7889 for Dancing Jewish) • Awarded to complete summer salary in partnership with NEH fellowship (not applied for). Creative Research Summer Stipend, College of Fine Arts, UT (declined) Rossen CV 2 Faculty Travel Grant (awarded to present at the American Studies Association) 2010–11 Research Grant, Schusterman Center for Jewish Studies, UT ($5000 for Dancing Jewish) Ducloux Fine Arts Faculty Fellowship, College of Fine Arts, UT (one semester’s salary) Faculty Travel Grant (awarded to present at the Congress on Research in Dance) 2009–10 Creative Research Summer Stipend, College of Fine Arts, UT ($7000 for Dancing Jewish) Research Grant, Office of Vice President for Research, UT ($5105 for Dancing Jewish) 2008–09 Summer Research Assignment, Graduate School, UT (two-month’s salary) 2003–07 Numerous Course Development Grants, Northwestern University (NU) ($1500 for each) 2004 Summer Stipend Grant, Graduate School, NU ($3000) 2003 Teaching Assistantship (awarded based on campus-wide competition), Gender Studies Program, NU ($12,000 and full tuition) Summer Stipend Grant, Graduate School, NU ($3000) 2002 Dissertation Year Fellowship, Graduate School, NU ($12,000 and full tuition); Graduate Research Grant; Summer Stipend Grant, Graduate School ($3000) ARTISTIC GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS (PI) 2005 Special Assistance Grant, Illinois Arts Council, for Make Me a Jewish Dance ($900) Choreography Grant, City of Chicago, for Make Me a Jewish Dance ($750) 2002 Grant, Center for Interdisciplinary Research in the Arts, NU, for Dancing Jew Ish ($5000) Grant, philanthropist Helen Zell, for Dancing Jew Ish ($7500) 1993–97 Numerous Choreography Grants, City of Chicago, Dept of Cultural Affairs ($750 - $1500) ARTISTIC HONORS AND AWARDS 2009 Nominee, Austin Critic Table Awards, Best Touring Show. Nominated for “Warriors and Queens,” Department of Theatre and Dance and CWGS, UT 1998 Special Citation, Chicago Dance Coalition, Ruth Page Awards, for co-founding Chicago’s first fringe dance festival (The Movable Beast) CONSULTANCY 2014 On the Boards, Seattle. OTB is a significant international venue for new performance. • Hired as a consultant to brainstorm ways in which OTB TV, an archive of new performance, can be more useful to academic institutions. PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES American Jewish Historical Society American Studies Association American Society for Theatre Research Association for Jewish Studies Association for Theatre in Higher Education Dance Studies Association Rossen CV 3 PUBLICATIONS Books In Progress Holocaust Dance: Representations of the Holocaust in Contemporary Dance. This book will examine dances about the Holocaust by Jewish and non-Jewish choreographers. 2014 Dancing Jewish: Jewish Identity in American Modern and Postmodern Dance (Oxford University Press). This extensive history of Jewish contributions to American dance covers 75 years, features 51 images, and includes a web companion with 51 clips from dances analyzed in the book. 336 pages. Refereed Articles 2012 “Jews on View: Spectacle, Degradation, and Jewish Corporeality in Contemporary Dance and Performance.” Theatre Journal 64, 1 (March 2012): 59–78. 2011 “Uneasy Duets: Contemporary American Dances about Israel and the Mideast Crisis,” TDR: The Drama Review 55, 3 (Fall 2011), 40–49. “Hasidic Drag: Jewishness and Transvestitism in the Modern Dances of Pauline Koner and Hadassah,” Feminist Studies 37, 2 (summer 2011): 334–64. Chapters 2016 “Dancing Jews and Jewesses: Jewishness, Ethnicity, and Exoticism in American Dance,” chapter in The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Ethnicity, Anthony Shay and Barbara Sellers- Young, eds. (New York: Oxford University Press), 66–90. 2006 “The Jewish Man and His Dancing Shtick: Stock Characterization and Jewish Masculinity in Postmodern Dance,” chapter in You Should See Yourself: Jewish Identity in Postmodern American Culture, Vincent Brook, ed. (Rutgers: Rutgers University Press), 137–54. Commissioned Articles 2007 “Moving Through the Interspace: Emio Greco/PC’s Orfeo ed Euridice, Opera Quarterly, 22.1: 144-47. “Teaching History: Ruth St. Denis and Ted Shawn,” Dance Teacher Magazine (October 2007): 120–24. “Teaching History: Mary Wigman, Early Modern Dance Pioneer, Dance Teacher Magazine (April 2007): 74–79. Encyclopedia Entries 2014 “Sophie Maslow,” entry for Routledge Encyclopedia