JACQUELINE SHEA MURPHY
Associate Professor
Ph.D. in English, UC Berkeley
jacqueline.sheamurphy@ucr.edu
(951) 827-3988
Office:
ARTS 107
Jacqueline Shea Murphy teaches courses in dance history and theory in UCR's Dance department. She is co-editor of the collection Bodies of the Text: Dance as Theory, Literature as Dance (Rutgers University Press, 1995). Her areas of specialization include U.S. dance history, dance theory, narrative strategies in writing on dance, Native American dance studies, cross-cultural approaches to dance, "race" and representation in dance, and feminist and gender studies. She is also a teacher and practitioner of Iyengar yoga.
Professor Shea Murphy's critical study of Native American dance called 'The People Have Never Stopped Dancing': Native American Stage Dance and Modern Dance History is forthcoming from the University of Minnesota Press. Her interests in this project include the history of federal relationships to Aboriginal and American Indian dance, modern dancers' representations of American Indian dance, and contemporary Native American stage dance.
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"The People Have Never Stopped Dancing": Native American Stage Dance and Modern Dance History. Under final contract, University of Minnesota Press. Forthcoming Winter 2007.
Bodies of the Text: Dance as Theory, Literature as Dance. Edited and with an introduction by Ellen Goellner and Jacqueline Shea Murphy. Rutgers University Press, March 1995.
"Policing Authenticity: Native American Dance and the "Western" Stage," Discourses in Dance, Volume 1, Issue 2, Spring 2003."
Lessons in Dance (as) History: Aboriginal Land Claims and Aboriginal Dance, circa 1999," Dancing Bodies Living Histories: New Writings about Dance and Culture, ed. Anne Flynn and Lisa Doolittle, Banff Centre Press, 2000.
"Performing Locally: "The Foreigner" in Jewett," in Re-Placing America: Intercultural Conversations and Contestations, eds. Cynthia Franklin, Ruth Hsu, Suzanne Kosanke, U of Hawaii Press, Literary Studies East and West, Vol. 16, fall 1999.
"Replacing Regionalism: Abenaki Tales and 'Jewett's' Coastal Maine," American Literary History, Winter 1998 (10.4).
"Getting Jewett: A Response to Sandra A. Zagarell's Troubling Regionalism: Rural Life and the Cosmopolitan Eye in Jewett's Deephaven," American Literary History, Winter 1998 (10.4).
"Unrest and Uncle Tom: Political Movement in Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company's Last Supper at Uncle Tom's Cabin/The Promised Land." In Bodies of the Text: 81-105.
""Words Like Bones": Narrative, Performance, and the Reinscribing of Violence in Leslie Marmon Silko's Storyteller," Journal of Narrative and Life History 3:2 & 3 (1993): 223-238." |
Awards and Service:
UC President's Research Fellowship in the Humanities 2002-2003
W.M. Keck Foundation and Mayers Fellow, Huntington Library 2000
 Co-P.I. and organizer (with Michelle Hermann Raheja), Red Rhythms: Contemporary Methodologies in American Indian Dance showcase and conference, May 5-7, 2004, at UC Riverside. Supported by a major grant from the Ford Foundation.
Program Chair, Society of Dance History Scholars (SDHS) annual conference, 2006, planned for Banff Centre for the Arts, Alberta Canada.
Chair, Academic Affairs committee, Society of Dance History Scholars Board of Directors. 2005-present.
Board of Directors member, Society of Dance History Scholars (SDHS), 3 year term beginning 2003.
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