| Jeanne
Scheper, Ph.D. Postdoctoral Fellow 2005-2007 |
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| Jeanne
Scheper joined
the Women's Studies Program at the University of Houston in the Fall
2005 as a postdoctoral fellow. Previously, she taught at the University
of Michigan. Recent courses include Feminist Theories of
the Archive; Feminist
Approaches to Performance Studies; Introduction
to Women's Studies: Gender in a Transnational World; Gender and
Modernism; Radical Women Writers of the 1930s; Women Writers of the
African World. Her current book project, "Moving Performances," theorizes mobility and identity in the early 20th century (1892-1940) and includes an anlysis of Orientalism and primitivism in TransAtlantic performance circuits. A section from this project, "'Of La Baker, I am a Disciple': The Diva Politics of Reception" will appear in Camera Obscura 65 (2007). She has published on the gendered rhetoric of labor debates and the importance of archives for feminist visual culture in Feminist Studies and analyzed torch singer Libby Holman's singing across the color line in Women & Performance. For four years she served as Managing Editor of Camera Obscura: Feminism, Culture, and Media Studies. Jeanne Scheper has written two scripts for the New York shadow performance group Cave Dogs that have been performed at venues such as PS 122 (New York) and Mobius (Boston). |
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| Research & Teaching Interests: | TransAtlantic
Modernism | Performance
and Media Studies |
Theories of Race, Gender, & Sexuality |
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| Selected Publications: |
"'Of La Baker, I am a
Disciple': The Diva Politics of Reception" Camera Obscura 65 (2007). “Feasting on Technologies of Recycling in the Jurassic: Repositories of Knowledge and the Desire for Minutiae and Exegesis, with the True Account of a Conversation with the Museum of Jurassic Technology’s Progenitor and Prognosticator, David Wilson,” Special Issue: Recycling Culture, Other Voices: The (e)Journal of Cultural Criticism, http://www.othervoices.org/, 3.1 (March 2007). “I am a Guerilla Girl: Female Fandom and the Future of the ‘F’ Word,” Blaffer Gallery Art Museum Newsline (Houston), December 2005. “Visualize Academic Labor in the 1990s: Inventing an Activist Archive in Santa Barbara,” Feminist Studies 31.3 (Fall 2005). “‘Take Black or White’: Libby Holman’s Sound,” special issue on Staging Sound: Feminism and Re/Production, Women & Performance: A Journal of Feminist Theory, 9.2.18 (1998): 95-117. |
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Dr. Scheper
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working on a book entitled: Moving
Performances In Preparation “Performing Race & Gender Mobility in Nella Larsen’s Quicksand,” African American Review. "Aida Overton Walker: The Color Line is Always Moving." |
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| Courses: | Upper
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Performance Links: Cave Dogs Performance Group (interview with WGBH Boston) PSi (Performance Studies International) Diverse Works (Houston) Research Links: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture (New York Public Libraries) Women & Gender Studies Links (Association of College & Research Libraries) Bookstores: Amazon Bookstore Cooperative (Minneapolis) Red Emma's Bookstore Coffeehouse (Baltimore) University of Houston:
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