Visiting Associate Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin.
My current reseach investigates the ways in which performativity operates globally through nation-states, multinational corporations, and international organizations, and also how it is being engaged by networks of artists, activists, and others seeking local and global justice.
I teach courses in performance, cultural theory, new media, and civil disobedience.
Jon McKenzie, PhD
Department of English
University of Wisconsin
4163 Helen C. White Hall
600 North Park Street
Madison, WI 53726
jvmckenzie [at] wisc [dot] edu
Jon McKenzie
Curriculum Vitae
Books
Perform or Else: From Discipline to Performance. London: Routledge, 2001.
Abu America: Performativities of the Global War on Terror.
In progess.
Contesting Performance: Global Genealogies of Research. Jon McKenzie, Heike Roms, and Wan-ling Wee, eds. Forthcoming, Palgrave Macmillan.
Selected Essays
"Is Performance Studies Imperialist?" TDR: The Drama Review 50.6 (2006): 5-8.
“Performance and Globalization.” Handbook of Performance Studies. D. Soyini Madison and Judith Hamera, eds. London: Sage, 2006.
“The Liminal-Norm.” Extract from Perform or Else, reprinted in The Performance Studies Reader. Henry Bial, ed. London: Routledge, 2004.
“High Performance Schooling.” Parallax 31 (2004): 50-62.
“Democracy’s Performance.” TDR: The Drama Review 47.2 (2003): 117-128.
"Towards a Sociopoetics of Interface Design: etoy, eToys, and TOYWAR." Strategies: A Journal of Theory, Culture and Politics 14.1 (2001): 121-38.
“Genre Trouble: (The) Butler Did It.” The Ends of Performance. Peggy Phelan and Jill Lane, eds. New York: New York University Press, 1997.
“Laurie Anderson for Dummies.” TDR: The Drama Review 41.2 (1997): 30-50.
“Virtual Reality: Performance, Immersion, and the Thaw.” TDR: The Drama Review 38.4 (1994): 83-106. Reprinted in Performance: Critical Concepts in Literary and Cultural Studies, Volume 1. Philip Auslander, ed. London: Routledge, 2003.
