ANTHEA KRAUT
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Northwestern University
anthea.kraut@ucr.edu
(951) 827-7108
Office:
ARTS 108
Professor Kraut's research addresses the interconnections between American performance and cultural history and the raced and gendered dancing body. Her current book-length project, "Choreographing the Folk: The Dance Stagings of Zora Neale Hurston," recovers the history of Hurston's staging of black diasporic folk dance, traces the influence of her choreography throughout the 1930s, and illuminates the often contested place of the black vernacular in American culture more broadly. Her teaching interests include American and African American dance history, critical race theory, and methods and theories of dance studies.
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“Recovering Hurston, Reconsidering the Choreographer,” Women & Performance: a journal of feminist theory 16.1 (March 2006): 71-90.
“Everybody’s Fire Dance: Zora Neale Hurston and American Dance History,” S&F Online, 3.2 (winter 2005).
“Between Primitivism and Diaspora: The Dance Performances of Josephine Baker, Zora Neale Hurston, and Katherine Dunham,” Theatre Journal 55.3 (October 2003): 433-450.
“Re-scripting Origins: Zora Neale Hurston’s Staging of Black Vernacular Dance,” in emBODYing Liberation: The Black Body in American Dance, ed. Alison Goeller and Dorothea Fischer-Hornung, Hamburg: Lit-Verlag, 2001, pp. 59-77.
“Reclaiming the Body: Representations of Black Dance in Three Plays by Zora Neale Hurston,” Theatre Studies 43 (1998): 23-36.
Essays on “Chicago Opera Ballet,” “Jazz Dance,” and “Tap,” in The Encyclopedia of Chicago History, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004.
Essays on Jan Erkert, Martha Clarke, Carolyn Brown, and Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, in International Dictionary of Modern Dance, Detroit: St. James Press, 1998. |
Awards:
University of California President’s Research Fellowship in the Humanities, 2005-06.
Woodrow Wilson Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Humanities, University of California Humanities Research Institute, 2002-03.
Fellow, W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for Afro-American Research, Harvard University, spring 2002.
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