Heidi Rose
Professor, Performance Studies, ASL Area Coordinator at Villanova University
Schools
- Villanova University
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Biography
Villanova University
Education:
- Interdisciplinary Ph.D. in Communication, emphasis Performance Studies, Arizona State University;
- M.A. in Communication, emphasis Performance Studies, Emerson College;
- B.S. in Communication, emphasis Theatre, Northwestern University
Publications:
BOOKS
- Bauman, H-Dirksen L., Nelson, J. L., & Rose, H. M. (eds.) (2006). Signing the body poetic: Essays in American Sign Language Literature. Berkeley: University of California Press.
PERFORMANCE SCRIPTS
- Rose, H. M. (2006). Mirror Image. Text and Performance Quarterly 26.,_278-296.
REFEREED PERFORMANCE
- PARAKEET, world premiere literary adaptation, Villanova University, 2022. Reviewed for the National Review Board, Performance Studies Division, National Communication Association.
TWIN.
- Gender & Women's Studies Featured Faculty Scholarship, Communication Studio, Villanova University, 2016. Reviewed for the National Review Board, Performance Studies Division, National Communication Association.
GOOD ENOUGH and MIRROR IMAGE
- Studio Series, Theatre Department, Villanova University, 2014. Reviewed for the National Review Board, Performance Studies Division, National Communication Association
SELECTED JOURNAL ARTICLES
"A Letter to Ava DuVernay? Reflecting on Abraham Joshua Heschel, Selma, and Me." Video Essay. Liminalities 18.4 2022 online
"Sounding Sight in an ASL Classroom." Review of Communication 20.4, 2021, 316-23.
"Roots' Decolonizing Force in Jamaican Theatre" (with M. Hall), Theatre Annual 20, 2017 1-21. Lead article.
"Beyond the 22%: Gender inequity in regional theatres' show selections." (with K. McConarty) Women's Studies in Communication, 40(2), 2017 212-228.
"Teaching rhetorical performance in the humanities." Text and Performance Quarterly, 34, 2014, 118-119.
"The DIY freedom of Performance Studies." Text and Performance Quarterly, 33(3),2013, 264-266.
"Breathing, again." Liminalities: A Journal of Performance Studies, 8(2), 2012, 1-6. (Essay and Performance)
"What is Called Presence" (with G. Coonfield) Text & Performance Quarterly 32,2012, 192-208.
"A conversation with Anna Deavere Smith. Text and Performance Quarterly 31(4),2011, 440-448.
"The always emergent." (with J. Ferris) Text and Performance Quarterly30,2010,331-334.
"Mirror Image." Text and Performance Quarterly 26, 278-296, 2006.
"Writing and performing Mirror Image." Text and Performance Quarterly 26, 274-277,2006
"Julianna Fjeld's 'The Journey': Identity production in an ASL performance." Text and Performance Quarterly 17, 331-342, 1997.
"Inventing one's 'voice': The interplay of convention and self-expression in ASL narrative." Language in Society 25, 427-444, 1996.
"'Novelizing' Brian Friel's Lovers." Text and Performance Quarterly 16,83-91, 1996.
"Apprehending Deaf culture." Journal of Applied Communication Research 23, 156-162, 1995.
"Stylistic features in American Sign Language literature." Text and Performance Quarterly 14, 144-157, 1994.
"A semiotic analysis of artistic American Sign Language and a performance of poetry." Text and Performance Quarterly 12, 146-159, 1992.
Teaching Areas:
- Performance Studies, Qualitative Research
Areas of Interest:
- Performance Ethnography; Autoethnography; Performance, Culture and Identity; ASL Poetics and Deaf Culture; Performance and Advocacy
Honors and Awards:
- 2023 Marion Kleinau National Scripting Award for PARAKEET
- 2018 Leslie Irene Coger Award for Distinguished Performance, National Communication Association
- 2017 Creative Expression Award, Organization for the Study of Communication, Language, and Gender
- 2015 Lilla A. Heston Award for Outstanding Scholarship in Performance Studies, National Communication Association
- 2012 Service to the Discipline Award, Performance Studies Division, National Communication Association
Course List:
- Sum23-COM-5100-020 Directed Study
Additional Information:
- 2010-2012 Editor-in-Chief of TEXT AND PERFORMANCE QUARTERLY, the journal of performance studies sponsored by the National Communication Association and published by Routledge/Taylor & Francis
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