My office number needs to be corrected form G08 to G04.
My position needs to read Director of Graduate Studies then
followed by Associate Professor
Ramón H. Rivera-Servera's research focuses on contemporary
performance (cultural, artistic, and quotidian) in North America and
the Caribbean with special emphasis on the ways categories of race,
gender and sexuality are negotiated in the process of (im)migration.
His work documents performance practices ranging from theatre and
concert dance to social dance, fashion and speech.
His teaching ranges from seminar courses on Latina/o and queer
performance, sound and movement studies, and visual cultural
studies to workshop courses on social art practices, the
performances of non-fictional texts, ethnographic research methods,
and performance art.
He is author of Performing Queer Latinidad: Dance, Sexuality, Politics
(University of Michigan Press, 2012), a study of the role performance
played in the development of Latina/o queer publics in the United
States from the mid-1990s to the early 2000s. The book received the
2013 Lambda Book Award in the LGBT Studies, the 2013 Book
Award from the Latino Studies Section of the Latin American Studies
Association, and a Special Citation for the 2012 de la Torre Bueno
Book Prize in Dance Studies form the Society of Dance History
Scholars.
He is currently conducting research toward two book projects:
Exhibiting Performance: Race, Museum Cultures, and the Live Event,
which looks at the ways race has been collected and exhibited in
North America and the Caribbean since the mid-1990s and
Choreographing the Latina/o Post-Modern: Puerto Rican Moves in
the New York Dance Avant-Garde, a cultural history of Puerto Rican
participation in the New York City experimental dance scene since
the 1980s.
EDUCATION
PhD
Theater, University of Texas-Austin (emphasis in performance as
public practice). Graduate Certificate in Mexican-American Studies
MA
Theatre Studies, City University of New York
BA
Art History, University of Rochester (focus on contemporary visual
cultural studies)
RECENT PUBLICATIONS
Johnson, E. Patrick and Ramón H. Rivera-Servera, editors,
solo/black/woman: scripts, essays, and interviews (Northwestern
University Press, 2013).
Henry Godinez and Rivera-Severa, Ramón H., editors, Festival
Latino: Six Plays from the Goodman Theatre Festival (Northwestern
University Press, 2013).
“Moving from Realism to Hip-Hop Real: Choreographing
Transnational Aesthetics in Canadian Latina/a Performance,” in
Natalie Alvarez, ed. Latina/o Canadian Theatre: A Critical Reader
(Playwrights Canada Press, 2013).
Performing Queer Latinidad: Dance, Sexuality, Politics. (University of
Michigan Press, 2012).
Best Book Award from the Latino Studies Section of the Latin
American Studies Association.
Best Book Award, LGBT Studies, Lambda Literary Foundation.
Special Citation, de la Torre Bueno Book Prize in Dance
Studies, Society of Dance History Scholars.
Rivera-Servera, Ramón H. and Harvey Young, editors, Performance
in the Borderlands (Pallgrave-Macmillan, Performance Interventions
Series, 2011).
In-Progress
Exhibiting Performance: Race, Museums, and the Live Event
(research support awarded the Smithsonian Institution), a critical look
at the collection and exhibition of race in and as performance at
museums and cultural heritage sites throughout North America and
the Caribbean.
Choreographing the Latina/o Post-Modern: Puerto Rican Moves in
the New York Dance Avant-Garde, a cultural history of Puerto Rican
participation in the New York City experimental dance scene since
the 1980s.
SERVICE AND ASSOCIATIONS
Rivera-Servera is a member of the Board of Directors and the
Editorial Board of the Society of Dance History Scholars, the
Executive Committee of the Division of Gay Studies in Language and
Literature and the Programming Committee of the Modern
Languages, the advisory board of the Hemispheric Institute for
Performance and Politics, and the Editorial Board of Theatre Topics.
COURSES
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Performance of Non-Fiction
Topics: Queer Sexualities and Popular Culture
Topics: Sounding America
Social Art Tactics
Seminar: Queer Globalizations
Seminar: Performance in the Borderlands
Seminar: Performing Race
Seminar: Queer Nightlife
Seminar: Performance Sensorium