Desireé D Rowe
Biographic Data
| ID | 131560 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Desireé D Rowe |
| GIVEN NAMES | Desireé D |
| FAMILY NAME | Rowe |
| SIGNATURE | ROWE D D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Towson University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6665-1859 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 15 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Wave 1.12.22 artist statement
In this author statement, I work to make sense of the process of utilizing qualitative interviews, autoethnography, and solo performance in the creation of WAVE 1.12.22.
Wave 1.12.22
Four participant narratives are included in the script. The text is a direct transcript. A waveform video is played for each participant's narrative with closed captioned text. Each participant vid
Introducing the anti-method paradigm [or, when reviewer #2 says your interdisciplinary work is vague, messy, and unrecognizable]
Interdisciplinary work no longer sits on the fringes of the communication studies discipline. In this manuscript, we invite a consideration of the anti-method paradigm as a framework for disturbing the paradigms of knowledge production that dominate research methods within our discipline. While these paradigms might push interdisciplinary work to the boundaries, the anti- method paradigm invites research that is vague, messy, and unrecognizable w…
Messy performance/s
Anti-Method Vibes & Feminist Futures
In regards to performance at the end of the world
Faking It, Finishing, and Ambivalence
This essay analyzes the transcription of critical focus group conversation among women to understand failure within their sexual lives. Against the backdrop of normative sexual scripts, women discuss faked orgasms and lackluster sex. Practicing a reparative reading method, we explore the relationship between failure, ambivalence, and sex in conversation. We conclude that the focus on women’s lived experiences highlights the reparative possibiliti…
Negative Affect,SCUM, and the Politics of Possibility
Negativity has been widely framed through Edelman's 'no future' orientation. While being productive, this orientation forecloses the potential negativity to foster coalitional alliances. Building off previous works about Valerie Solanas, I turn toward an investigation of the negative affective traces of her SCUM Manifesto to create paths of meaning-making beyond Edelman's accounting. First, I examine how Solanas uses negative affect in her work. …
Blurring the Body and the Page
Keywords autoethnography, ethnographies, methodologies, autotheory, embodiment, storytelling, special issue
Beyond the Talk-Back
Reflecting on my own experiences with talk-backs and audience responses, this manuscript uses metaphor to map the functions of autoethnographic performance critique. Through an exploration of vulnerability within performance, I turn to three key areas: theoretical accessibility, performativity, and accountability in order to chart how to engage in critique of performance autoethnography
Please Don't Use the Restraints
The end of the story is all you care about. So, let's get that out of the way first. Penelope Jane was born on March 23rd. She was healthy. The trauma of that day still resonates within my body, called into being through subsequent visits to the hospital and a review of my own medical records from that day. A life-threatening fever and 9 hours of pushing led to a powerfully negative birth experience, one that I am consistently told to just forget…
The (dis)appearance of Up Your Ass
Through performative writing and using Cixous' notion of écriture feminine, this piece explores how the archival and treatment of Valerie Solanas' ‘lost’ manuscript Up Your Ass marks her as an abject body. Further, this piece critiques the treatment of Solanas' works as typical of radical feminist activists
Valerie Solanas and the Queer Performativity of Madness
Accusations of madness have long been hurled at queer and feminist bodies, and typically when people are deemed mad, they are granted little agency. This article attempts to read madness as potentially agentic when it manifests as what we call a 'queer performativity of madness.' Using the writing of and rhetoric surrounding Valerie Solanas, the infamous radical feminist known for shooting Andy Warhol, we develop the notion of a queer performativ…
I Should've Done Target Practice
Through performative writing, this article seeks to tell the story of Valerie Solanas. Solanas, the woman most notoriously known as the shooter of Andy Warhol, has had little media exposure that does not frame her outside of the violent female assassin trope. (Auto)ethnographic writing, coupled with theoretical interludes via footnotes, works to retell Solanas' story. In this way this article is telling three stories: the main narrative of Solana…
Troubling Violence
Carver and Lawless' text focuses on the dynamic work of the Troubling Violence Performance Project, a performance troupe they formed in reaction to Lawless' gathering of the narratives of victims of domestic violence.This powerful book explores the interdisciplinary partnership of Carver and Lawless (Carver is a performance studies scholar and Lawless hails from folklore studies) and its effects on performing, ethnography, writing, and, most impo…
Blurring the Body and the Page
Keywords autoethnography, ethnographies, methodologies, autotheory, embodiment, storytelling, special issue
Valerie Solanas and the Queer Performativity of Madness
Accusations of madness have long been hurled at queer and feminist bodies, and typically when people are deemed mad, they are granted little agency. This article attempts to read madness as potentially agentic when it manifests as what we call a 'queer performativity of madness.' Using the writing of and rhetoric surrounding Valerie Solanas, the infamous radical feminist known for shooting Andy Warhol, we develop the notion of a queer performativ…
Negative Affect,SCUM, and the Politics of Possibility
Negativity has been widely framed through Edelman's 'no future' orientation. While being productive, this orientation forecloses the potential negativity to foster coalitional alliances. Building off previous works about Valerie Solanas, I turn toward an investigation of the negative affective traces of her SCUM Manifesto to create paths of meaning-making beyond Edelman's accounting. First, I examine how Solanas uses negative affect in her work. …
Please Don't Use the Restraints
The end of the story is all you care about. So, let's get that out of the way first. Penelope Jane was born on March 23rd. She was healthy. The trauma of that day still resonates within my body, called into being through subsequent visits to the hospital and a review of my own medical records from that day. A life-threatening fever and 9 hours of pushing led to a powerfully negative birth experience, one that I am consistently told to just forget…
Troubling Violence
Carver and Lawless' text focuses on the dynamic work of the Troubling Violence Performance Project, a performance troupe they formed in reaction to Lawless' gathering of the narratives of victims of domestic violence.This powerful book explores the interdisciplinary partnership of Carver and Lawless (Carver is a performance studies scholar and Lawless hails from folklore studies) and its effects on performing, ethnography, writing, and, most impo…
Valerie Solanas and the Queer Performativity of Madness
Accusations of madness have long been hurled at queer and feminist bodies, and typically when people are deemed mad, they are granted little agency. This article attempts to read madness as potentially agentic when it manifests as what we call a 'queer performativity of madness.' Using the writing of and rhetoric surrounding Valerie Solanas, the infamous radical feminist known for shooting Andy Warhol, we develop the notion of a queer performativ…
I Should've Done Target Practice
Through performative writing, this article seeks to tell the story of Valerie Solanas. Solanas, the woman most notoriously known as the shooter of Andy Warhol, has had little media exposure that does not frame her outside of the violent female assassin trope. (Auto)ethnographic writing, coupled with theoretical interludes via footnotes, works to retell Solanas' story. In this way this article is telling three stories: the main narrative of Solana…
The (dis)appearance of Up Your Ass
Through performative writing and using Cixous' notion of écriture feminine, this piece explores how the archival and treatment of Valerie Solanas' ‘lost’ manuscript Up Your Ass marks her as an abject body. Further, this piece critiques the treatment of Solanas' works as typical of radical feminist activists
Please Don't Use the Restraints
The end of the story is all you care about. So, let's get that out of the way first. Penelope Jane was born on March 23rd. She was healthy. The trauma of that day still resonates within my body, called into being through subsequent visits to the hospital and a review of my own medical records from that day. A life-threatening fever and 9 hours of pushing led to a powerfully negative birth experience, one that I am consistently told to just forget…
Beyond the Talk-Back
Reflecting on my own experiences with talk-backs and audience responses, this manuscript uses metaphor to map the functions of autoethnographic performance critique. Through an exploration of vulnerability within performance, I turn to three key areas: theoretical accessibility, performativity, and accountability in order to chart how to engage in critique of performance autoethnography
Negative Affect,SCUM, and the Politics of Possibility
Negativity has been widely framed through Edelman's 'no future' orientation. While being productive, this orientation forecloses the potential negativity to foster coalitional alliances. Building off previous works about Valerie Solanas, I turn toward an investigation of the negative affective traces of her SCUM Manifesto to create paths of meaning-making beyond Edelman's accounting. First, I examine how Solanas uses negative affect in her work. …
Blurring the Body and the Page
Keywords autoethnography, ethnographies, methodologies, autotheory, embodiment, storytelling, special issue
Faking It, Finishing, and Ambivalence
This essay analyzes the transcription of critical focus group conversation among women to understand failure within their sexual lives. Against the backdrop of normative sexual scripts, women discuss faked orgasms and lackluster sex. Practicing a reparative reading method, we explore the relationship between failure, ambivalence, and sex in conversation. We conclude that the focus on women’s lived experiences highlights the reparative possibiliti…
In regards to performance at the end of the world
Introducing the anti-method paradigm [or, when reviewer #2 says your interdisciplinary work is vague, messy, and unrecognizable]
Interdisciplinary work no longer sits on the fringes of the communication studies discipline. In this manuscript, we invite a consideration of the anti-method paradigm as a framework for disturbing the paradigms of knowledge production that dominate research methods within our discipline. While these paradigms might push interdisciplinary work to the boundaries, the anti- method paradigm invites research that is vague, messy, and unrecognizable w…
Messy performance/s
Anti-Method Vibes & Feminist Futures
Wave 1.12.22 artist statement
In this author statement, I work to make sense of the process of utilizing qualitative interviews, autoethnography, and solo performance in the creation of WAVE 1.12.22.
Wave 1.12.22
Four participant narratives are included in the script. The text is a direct transcript. A waveform video is played for each participant's narrative with closed captioned text. Each participant vid
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