Katherine Biers
Biographic Data
| ID | 1323879 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Katherine Biers |
| GIVEN NAMES | Katherine |
| FAMILY NAME | Biers |
| SIGNATURE | BIERS K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Columbia University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Spectral Characters
Reviewed by: Spectral Characters: Genre and Materiality on The Modern Stage by Sarah Balkin Katherine Biers SPECTRAL CHARACTERS: GENRE AND MATERIALITY ON THE MODERN STAGE. By Sarah Balkin. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2019; pp. 198. The word “character” can describe a person, a room, or an article of clothing. As Sarah Balkin shows in her innovative book, this unsettling uncertainty between persons and things was fertile terrain for l…
Weapons of Democracy
Is there such a thing as the common good? Since Aristotle, Western political theorists have argued that the function of government is to promote the general welfare. Since the Enlightenment, they have often credited democracy as the form of government best suited to do so. Both ideas seem antiquated when considering American democracy today. A reality television star holds the White House, elected by Russian bots on Twitter; slavery’s structural …
Virtual Love
Yehuda Duenyas’s virtual reality performance piece CVRTAIN, which premiered at Performance Space 122’s Coil festival in January 2017, challenges the distinctions between the live and the mediated. Ultimately, CVRTAIN helps to cultivate something more important and relevant to our digital age — an ethics of care
Tragic Modernities
Do the Greek tragic plays represent universal themes, forms, and experiences that transcend the veils of antiquity, language, and time? Or are their particular, historically specific meanings to the ancient Greeks irrelevant to a modern, secular, society? Miriam Leonard's valuable and timely Tragic Modernities addresses this familiar impasse in an innovative way by analyzing how modern ideas of tragic universality (and particularity) first emerge…
Practices of Enchantment
Contemporary critical work in the field of new materialism, whose practitioners take seriously the concept of nonhuman agency, has largely neglected the genres of theatre and performance. African American author and folklorist Zora Neale Hurston’s folk revues of the 1930s offer an opportunity to examine the intersections between contemporary new materialist theory and the stage, revealing that black Atlantic performance practices have long explor…
Frank Norris's common sense
Syncope Fever
This essay examines links between James Weldon Johnson's novel The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man and the cultural logic of ragtime and the phonograph during the pre-WWI era, in order to reconsider critical conceptions of voice within the African-American tradition
Syncope Fever
This essay examines links between James Weldon Johnson's novel The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man and the cultural logic of ragtime and the phonograph during the pre-WWI era, in order to reconsider critical conceptions of voice within the African-American tradition
Syncope Fever
This essay examines links between James Weldon Johnson's novel The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man and the cultural logic of ragtime and the phonograph during the pre-WWI era, in order to reconsider critical conceptions of voice within the African-American tradition
Frank Norris's common sense
Practices of Enchantment
Contemporary critical work in the field of new materialism, whose practitioners take seriously the concept of nonhuman agency, has largely neglected the genres of theatre and performance. African American author and folklorist Zora Neale Hurston’s folk revues of the 1930s offer an opportunity to examine the intersections between contemporary new materialist theory and the stage, revealing that black Atlantic performance practices have long explor…
Virtual Love
Yehuda Duenyas’s virtual reality performance piece CVRTAIN, which premiered at Performance Space 122’s Coil festival in January 2017, challenges the distinctions between the live and the mediated. Ultimately, CVRTAIN helps to cultivate something more important and relevant to our digital age — an ethics of care
Tragic Modernities
Do the Greek tragic plays represent universal themes, forms, and experiences that transcend the veils of antiquity, language, and time? Or are their particular, historically specific meanings to the ancient Greeks irrelevant to a modern, secular, society? Miriam Leonard's valuable and timely Tragic Modernities addresses this familiar impasse in an innovative way by analyzing how modern ideas of tragic universality (and particularity) first emerge…
Weapons of Democracy
Is there such a thing as the common good? Since Aristotle, Western political theorists have argued that the function of government is to promote the general welfare. Since the Enlightenment, they have often credited democracy as the form of government best suited to do so. Both ideas seem antiquated when considering American democracy today. A reality television star holds the White House, elected by Russian bots on Twitter; slavery’s structural …
Spectral Characters
Reviewed by: Spectral Characters: Genre and Materiality on The Modern Stage by Sarah Balkin Katherine Biers SPECTRAL CHARACTERS: GENRE AND MATERIALITY ON THE MODERN STAGE. By Sarah Balkin. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2019; pp. 198. The word “character” can describe a person, a room, or an article of clothing. As Sarah Balkin shows in her innovative book, this unsettling uncertainty between persons and things was fertile terrain for l…
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