J Ellen Gainor

Biographic Data

ID1709104
NAMEJ Ellen Gainor
GIVEN NAMESJ Ellen
FAMILY NAMEGainor
SIGNATUREGAINOR J E
AFFILIATIONSCornell University
ORCID0000-0001-7385-6748
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS12
TOTAL CITATIONS1
AUTHOR COUNT10
EDITOR COUNT2
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1988
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2024
H-INDEX1

  • Jacques Copeau's “The Spirit in the Little Theatre”: Contexts and Texts

    Open AccessJ Ellen Gainor, John UnARTICLETheatre Survey2024

    The story of influential French stage director Jacques Copeau's 1917–19 residency in New York City was documented at the time by Copeau himself and subsequently analyzed by Copeau scholars. 1 Copeau (1879–1949) is remembered today for his innovative, experimental theatre work in the early twentieth century; he developed core practices that became foundational for modernist stage artistry, including mime and physical theatre as well as devised the…

  • Granville Barker on Theatre: Selected Essays by Harley Granville Barker

    J Ellen GainorARTICLETheatre Journal2018

    Reviewed by: Granville Barker on Theatre: Selected Essays by Harley Granville Barker J. Ellen Gainor GRANVILLE BARKER ON THEATRE: SELECTED ESSAYS. By Harley Granville Barker. Edited by Colin Chambers and Richard Nelson. Theatre Makers series. London: Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, 2017; pp. 280. We need to begin at the end of Granville Barker on Theatre: Selected Essays, a collection of twenty-one insightful pieces that reflect the range of Harley Gra…

  • Ballroom, Boogie, Shimmy Sham, Shake: A Social and Popular Dance Reader (review)

    J Ellen GainorARTICLETheatre Journal2011

    Reviewed by: Ballroom, Boogie, Shimmy Sham, Shake: A Social and Popular Dance Reader J. Ellen Gainor Ballroom, Boogie, Shimmy Sham, Shake: A Social and Popular Dance Reader. Edited by Julie Malnig. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2009; pp. 392. $75.00 cloth, $25.00 paper. In 1995, when Julie Malnig published her first book Dancing Till Dawn: A Century of Exhibition Ballroom Dance, the field of dance studies was just beginning to turn its at…

  • Glamour Addiction: Inside the American Ballroom Dance Industry (review)

    J Ellen GainorARTICLETheatre Journal2007

  • Imperialism and Theatre

    J Ellen GainorBOOKImperialism and Theatre2003

  • Alison's House (review)

    J Ellen GainorARTICLETheatre Journal2000

    Susan Glaspell's Alison's House won the Pulitzer Prize for drama in 1931. Eva Le Gallienne had staged and starred in the New York premiere for her Civic Repertory Theatre, but the script and production had been skewered by the critics. News of the award sent shock waves through the theatre press, which condemned the Pulitzer committee for its selection and shortly thereafter formed their own influential adjudicative body, the New York Drama Criti…

  • Performing America: Cultural Nationalism in American Theater

    Open AccessJeffrey Mason, J Gainor et al.BOOKPerforming America: Cultural…1999

  • Shaw's Daughters: Dramatic and Narrative Constructions of Gender

    Sheila Stowell, J Ellen GainorARTICLETheatre Journal1993

  • Dancing 'Till Dawn: A Century of Exhibition Ballroom Dance

    J Ellen Gainor, Julie MalnigARTICLETheatre Journal1993Cited by: 1

  • Lear

    J Ellen Gainor, William ShakespeareARTICLETheatre Journal1988

  • Yes, You Can Get More Publicity: A Primer for Non-Professional Theaters

    J Ellen Gainor, Tom McelfreshARTICLETheatre Journal1988

  • Hard Times

    J Ellen Gainor, David Faulkner et al.ARTICLETheatre Journal1988