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Joanna MANSBRIDGE

Associate Professor
B.A. (Hons) (University of Regina), M.A. (Simon Fraser University), Ph.D. (The Graduate Center, City University of New York)
Tel 3943 7024
Email jmansbridge@cuhk.edu.hk
Office Fung King Hey 319

Administrative Post:
Undergraduate Admissions Committee Convenor

Research Interests
Drama; Performance Studies; Film and Visual Culture; Intermediality; Environmental Humanities
 
Teaching
ENGE1610 Introduction to Literature
ENGE1800 Drama in Performance I
ENGE5720 Comparative Approaches in Literary Studies
 
Selected Publications
Books
2014
Paula Vogel. Modern Dramatists Series. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press. p. 232 https://doi.org/10.3998/mpub.7027158
Book Chapters & Journal Articles
2023
“The Shape of Light: Meditations on Hong Kong,” PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art (134), pp. 34-40. https://doi.org/10.1162/pajj_a_00659
2023
“Possessed Ecologies: Cross-cultural Ghosts and Transnational Environments in Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig’s Snow in Midsummer.” pp. 327-340. Routledge Companion to Global Literary Adaptation in the Twenty-First Century. (eds.) Elizabeth Ho and Brandon Chua. London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003038368
2022
“Dramaturgy of Extinction: Sentient Landscapes, Spectral Bodies, and Unthought Worlds in Kris Verdonck’s Conversations (at the end of the world) and SOMETHING (out of nothing),” Contemporary Theatre Review, 32(2), pp. 124-139. https://doi.org/10.1080/10486801.2022.2047034
2022
with Sony Devabhaktuni, “Democracy’s Dislocations: Spaces of Protest and the People of Hong Kong.” Public Culture 34(1) (96), pp. 99–121. https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-9435470
2021
with Sony Devabhaktuni and Susan Sentler, “When Zoom Roomed the World: Performing Network Culture’s Enclosures.” Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism 4(2) and Global Performance Studies, Special Joint Issue on Collaboration. https://gps.psi-web.org/issue-4-2/gps-4-2-6/
2021
“Law of Extraction: Transcultural Environments, Uncanny Subjects, and ‘the unresolved question of pleasure’ in Ana Lily Amirpour’s A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night.” Journal of Popular Culture 54(4), pp. 811-831. https://doi.org/10.1111/jpcu.13046
2020
“Architecture, Infrastructure, and Urban Performance in Hong Kong." Theatre Journal 72(2), pp. 197-218. https://muse.jhu.edu/article/759545/summary
2020
"Choreographing the Nonhuman: Cross-Cultural Entanglements and Technologies of Capture in Zuni Icosahedron’s and Zurich University of the Arts’ Z/Z Twin Lab.” International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media. 16(1), pp. 1-16. https://doi.org/10.1080/14794713.2020.1723302
2020
“Consuming Bodies, Abject Spaces: Ana Lily Amirpour’s Transcultural Expressionism." pp. 65-84. Female Agencies and Subjectivities in Film and Television. (eds.) Sezen Diğdem, Aslı Tunç, Ebru Thwaites Diken, Feride Çiçekoğlu. London: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-56100-0_5
2019
“Endangered Vampires of the Anthropocene: The Ecology of Romance in Jim Jarmusch’s Only Lovers Left Alive." Genre: Forms of Discourse and Culture. 52(3), pp. 207-228. https://doi.org/10.1215/00166928-7965805
2019
"'Take Caroline Away': Catastrophe, Change, and the Tragic Agency of Nonperformance in Tony Kushner’s Caroline, or Change." Journal of American Drama and Theatre 31(2).
2018
"Gestures of Remembrance in Paula Vogel and Rebecca Taichman’s Indecent." Modern Drama 61(4), pp. 479-501. https://doi.org/10.3138/md.61.4.0965
2018
"Animating Extinction, Performing Endurance: Feathers, Angels, and Indigenous Eco-Activism." Theatre Topics 28(2), pp. 113-123. https://muse.jhu.edu/article/700177
2018
"Paula Vogel." pp.121-147. Modern American Drama: Playwriting in the 1990s. Voices, Documents, New Interpretations (eds.) Cheryl Black and Sharon Friedman. London and New York: Bloomsbury.
2017
"The Zenne: Male Belly Dancing and Queer Modernity in Contemporary Turkey." Theatre Research International 42(1), pp. 20-36. https://doi.org/10.1017/S030788331700004
2017
"Adapting Queerness, Queering Adaptation: Fun Home on Broadway." pp.75-94. Adaptation, Awards, and the Value of Prestige (eds.) Colleen Kennedy-Karpat and Eric Sandberg. Adaptation and Visual Cultures Series. London: Palgrave Macmillan.
2016
"Fantasies of Exposure: Belly Dancing, the Veil, and the Drag of History." The Journal of Popular Culture 49(1), pp. 29-56. https://doi.org/10.1111/jpcu.12381
Reprinted in Dines, G., Humez, J.M., Yousman, B., & Yousman Bindig, L. (Eds.) (2017, 2018, 2020). Gender, Race and Class in Media: A Critical Reader. Los Angeles and London: Sage Publications. https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/gender-race-and-class-in-media/book267103#contents
2015
"Racing Toward History: Utopia and Progress in John Guare’s Free Man of Color." Modern Drama 58(4), pp. 413-36. https://doi.org/10.3138/md.0729
2014
"In Search of a Different History: The Remains of Burlesque in Montreal." Canadian Theatre Review 158, pp. 7-12. https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/29773
2014
“Paula Vogel.” pp.372-90. Methuen Guide to Contemporary American Playwrights (eds.) Martin Middeke, Peter Schnierer, Christopher Innes, Matthew C. Roudané. London and New York: Bloomsbury.
2013
"The Comic Bodies and Obscene Voices of 20th-Century Burlesque." pp. 97-110. Women and Comedy: History, Theory, Practice. Peter Dickinson et al. eds. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press. Reprinted in 2017.
2012
"Memory’s Dramas, Modernity’s Ghosts: Thornton Wilder, Japanese Theater, and Paula Vogel’s The Long Christmas Ride Home." Comparative Drama 46(2), pp. 209-235. https://scholarworks.wmich.edu/compdr/vol46/iss2/4/
2009
"Popular Bodies, Canonical Voices: Paula Vogel’s Hot ‘n’ Throbbing as Performative Burlesque." Modern Drama 52(4), pp. 469-489. https://doi.org/10.3138/md.52.4.469
2005
“Abject Origins: Uncanny Strangers and Figures of Fetishism in Larissa Lai’s Salt Fish Girl.”West Coast Line 38(2), pp. 121-133.
2003
“Joan Crate.” pp.74-77. Twenty-First Century Canadian Writers. Dictionary of Literary Biography (ed.) Christian Riegel. Bruccoli, Clark, Layman.
 
Book and Performance Reviews
2022
with Soo-Ryon Yoon (2022). “Performance Review: 100% Hong Kong by Rimini Protokoll.” Theatre Journal vol. 74(2), pp. 229-231. https://muse.jhu.edu/article/858615
2018
“John Cassavettes: Interviews by Gabriella Oldham (review).” Journal of Popular Film and Television. 46(3), pp. 182-183.
2016
“Kitchen Sink Realisms: Domestic Labor, Dining, and Drama in American Theatre. By Dorothy Chansky. (review).” Journal of American Drama and Theatre 29(1).
2012
“Performing Community: A Review of Popular Political Theatre and Performance and Theatre in Atlantic Canada.” Canadian Literature 212, pp. 132-134.
 
Editorial posts
2016
Member of the international advisory board for the open-source journal, Performance Matters.
 
Research Grants and Awards
2022-2025
General Research Fund, Research Grants Committee, Hong Kong
2014
Canadian Association for Theatre Research Award for Research in Francophone Theatre and Performance
2011
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Small Institutions Research Grant
 


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