Jill Lane
Assistant Professor of Spanish and Portuguese
New York University

Deputy Director, Hemispheric Institute,
www.hemisphericinstitute.org

editor, e-misférica

jill.lane@nyu.edu

Selected courses

Summer 2008 (in Lima)
Theatre/Politics/Memory: Performance and Cultural Politics in Peru

Fall 2007: (NYU)
Latin American Theatre and Performance (graduate)

Fall 2006: NYU in Madrid
Performance and Conquest (graduate)
Performance and Politics in Latin America and Spain (undergraduate)

Selected Publications

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Blackface Cuba, 1840-1895. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005.
Winner of the 2006 ASTR Erroll Hill Award for best book on theatre of the African American diaspora.


Read reviews here:
Theatre Journal; Patricia Ybarra
e-misférica; Alexandra Vasquez
Latin American Music Review, Robin Moore
Theatre History Studies, David Krasner
Theatre Survey, Jean Graham-Jones


"Becoming Chocolate, a tale of racial translation," Theatre Journal 59:3 (October 2007) 382-387.

Guest editor, with Fernando Rosenberg, of e-misférica (the journal of the Hemispheric Institute), on Performance and Law; see the editor's remarks: "Exceptional Bodies"

Keywords in Latin American Performance,” Theatre Journal 56:3 (October 2004) 456–459.

Reverendo Billy: protesta, prédica, y paseítos post-industrialesConjunto: Revista de teatro latinoamericano, Casa de las Américas, Havana, Cuba. 131 (enero-marzo 2004) 64–77.

Digital Zapatistas,” TDR: The Journal of Performance Studies 47:2 (T 178), Summer 2003: 129-144

What Americans Are Asking,” invited contribution to a Theatre Journal forum reflecting on the 9/11 tragedy, 54:1 (March 2002) 109–110.

Reverend Billy: protest, preaching, postindustrial flânerie,” TDR: The Journal of Performance Studies 46:1 (Spring 2002) 60–84.

Performance Studies in the Americas

Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics: hemisphericinstitute.org, institutohemisferico.org

e-misférica; current call for papers: "Race and Performance"

American Society of Theatre Research (ASTR); 2008 Conference: "Unsettling Theatre: Migration, Map, and Memory"

Places

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page last updated: February 2008