Kim Marra

Biographic Data

ID1708841
NAMEKim Marra
GIVEN NAMESKim
FAMILY NAMEMarra
SIGNATUREMARRA K
AFFILIATIONSKim Marra is Professor of Theatre Arts and American Studies at the University of Iowa. Her books include Strange Duets: Impresarios and Actresses in American Theatre, 1865–1914 (University of Iowa Press, 2006), winner of the Callaway Prize, and the coedited volumes Passing Performances: Queer Readings of Leading Players in American Theater History (University of Michigan Press, 1998) and Staging Desire: Queer Readings of American Theater History (University of Michigan Press, 2002). Her autobiographical...
ORCID0000-0002-4607-8626
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS11
TOTAL CITATIONS2
WORKS AS AUTHOR10
WORKS AS EDITOR1
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1994
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2024
H-INDEX1

  • Reframing Human-Equine Relationships

    Kim MarraARTICLESociety and Animals2024

  • Showing Off, Showing Up

    Laurie Frederik, Kim Marra et al.EDITORBOOKShowing Off, Showing Up2017

    The interdisciplinary essays in Showing Off, Showing Up examine acts of showing, a particular species of performance that relies on competition and judgment, active spectatorship, embodied excess, and exposure of core values and hidden truths. Acts of showing highlight those dimensions of performance that can most manipulate spectators and consumers, often through over-the-top heightening and skewing of presentation. Many forms of showing and of …

  • Subjective Histories of Taylor Mac's "Radical Faerie Realness Ritual" History

    David Román, Kalle Westerling et al.ARTICLETheatre Journal2017

    Subjective Histories of Taylor Mac’s “Radical Faerie Realness Ritual” History David Román (bio), Kalle Westerling (bio), Dan Venning (bio), Jennifer Buckley (bio), Miriam Felton-Dansky (bio), Kim Marra (bio), César Alvarez (bio), and Erik Patterson (bio) A 24-DECADE HISTORY OF POPULAR MUSIC. Conceived, written, and performed by Taylor Mac. Co-directed by Taylor Mac and Niegel Smith. St. Ann’s Warehouse, Brooklyn, New York. September–October 2016.…

  • Transatlantic Broadway

    Kim MarraARTICLETheatre Journal2016

    Reviewed by: Transatlantic Broadway: The Infrastructural Politics of Global Performance by Marlis Schweitzer Kim Marra Transatlantic Broadway: The Infrastructural Politics of Global Performance. By Marlis Schweitzer. Transnational Theatre Histories series. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015; pp. 246. This finely wrought book significantly expands the fields of US theatre history and performance studies by mapping a new historiographical fr…

  • Queer Aging Bareback

    Kim MarraARTICLETDR/The Drama Review2014

    Lesbian, equestrian, and scholarly desires merge through riding, literally and figuratively, with the mounted Athenian soldiers portrayed in the Parthenon frieze. The aging embodied, affective experience of barebacking on a retired cavalry-trained horse offers a key to understanding the queerness of these naked white men’s riding performance

  • Riding, Scarring, Knowing

    Kim MarraARTICLETheatre Journal2012Cited by: 2References: 1

    This essay captures the author’s emergent thinking about how her exploration of autobiographical performance with a seventy-five-minute solo piece, Horseback Views, staged at three academic conferences and a professional venue over the last three years, functions as a queer mode of historiographic research into nineteenth-century women’s performance of equestrianism. Heretofore exclusively a scholar, she discusses the queerness of embodied perfor…

  • Actresses and Whores

    Kim MarraARTICLETheatre Journal2007

    Reviewed by: Actresses and Whores: On Stage and in Society Kim Marra Actresses and Whores: On Stage and in Society. By Kirsten Pullen . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005; pp. xii + 215. $60.00 cloth, $24.99 paper. This book is a rich, theoretically invigorated study of the cultural connections between actresses and whores from the seventeenth century to the turn of the millennium. Rather than a comprehensive history, Pullen presents a r…

  • Books

    Kim MarraARTICLETDR/The Drama Review2004

    September 01 2004 The Queerest Art: Essays on Lesbian and Gay Theater The Queerest Art: Essays on Lesbian and Gay Theater. Edited by SolomonAlisa and MinwallaFramji Kim Marra Kim Marra Associate Professor of Theater Arts and American Studies at the University of Iowa. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Kim Marra Associate Professor of Theater Arts and American Studies at the Universit…

  • The Cambridge History of American Theatre, Vol. II

    Kim MarraARTICLETheatre Journal2000

    This second book in a three-volume set continues the ambitious and praiseworthy efforts of editors Don B. Wilmeth and Christopher Bigsby to present a comprehensive examination of United States theatre history "with a full awareness of relevant developments in literary criticism, cultural analysis, and performance theory" (i). Like the first volume, also reviewed in this issue, Volume II includes an editorial introduction that sets forth broad the…

  • The Cambridge History of American Theatre. Vol. 1

    Kim Marra, Don B Wilmeth et al.ARTICLEJournal of American History2000

    Journal Article The Cambridge History of American Theatre. Vol. 1: Beginnings to 1870. Ed. by Don B. Wilmeth and Christopher Bigsby. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998. xvi, 525 pp. $69.95, ISBN 0-521-47204-0.) Get access Kim Marra Kim Marra University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 4, March 2000, Pages 1772–1773, https://doi.…

  • Gender in Performance

    Kim Marra, Laurence SenelickARTICLETDR/The Drama Review1994