Patrick Mckelvey
Biographic Data
| ID | 1709952 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Patrick Mckelvey |
| GIVEN NAMES | Patrick |
| FAMILY NAME | Mckelvey |
| SIGNATURE | MCKELVEY P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Pittsburgh |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Mutuality of Intersex and Crip Politics
Honest Work Done by Honest Dogs
This essay offers a performance history of The Seeing Eye (1929), which systematized efforts to train guide dogs for the blind in the United States. The Seeing Eye's charge was both rehabilitative and representational, facilitating blind Americans' productive citizenship by countering prevailing presumptions of blind dependence. To accomplish this, the organization developed a rich repertoire of quotidian performance practices designed to make bl…
Let's Relax
Andrew Culp and the Cultural Studies Association’s Performance Working Group Co-Chair Hui Peng discuss “relaxed performance” with Leigh Jackson, Director of Accessibility and EDI Programming at People's Light outside of Philadelphia, and Dr. Hannah Simpson, Lecturer at the University of Edinburgh and author of "Samuel Beckett and Disability Performance" (Palgrave, 2022). This podcast is accompanied by a scholarly commentary by Patrick McKelvey
The Race for Rehabilitation
In 1967, the US Vocational Rehabilitation Administration (VRA) awarded $331,000 to the Eugene O'Neill Memorial Theatre Foundation to fund a new company, the National Theatre of the Deaf. Endowing such an enterprise was bold, but not entirely unprecedented for this federal agency tasked with restoring disabled Americans to productive employment. Founded in 1920, the federal–state vocational rehabilitation program, or VR, ascended to institutional …
A Disabled Actor Prepares
Jesuit Brother Rick Curry founded the National Theatre Workshop of the Handicapped (NTWH) in 1977 with the mission of training blind and physically disabled people to work as actors. This essay examines the relationship between the NTWH's dual commitments to Stanislavskian actor training and professionalizing people with disabilities as theatrical laborers. That such commitments would be mutually compatible might initially seem surprising, in lig…
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A Disabled Actor Prepares
Jesuit Brother Rick Curry founded the National Theatre Workshop of the Handicapped (NTWH) in 1977 with the mission of training blind and physically disabled people to work as actors. This essay examines the relationship between the NTWH's dual commitments to Stanislavskian actor training and professionalizing people with disabilities as theatrical laborers. That such commitments would be mutually compatible might initially seem surprising, in lig…
More Books
A Disabled Actor Prepares
Jesuit Brother Rick Curry founded the National Theatre Workshop of the Handicapped (NTWH) in 1977 with the mission of training blind and physically disabled people to work as actors. This essay examines the relationship between the NTWH's dual commitments to Stanislavskian actor training and professionalizing people with disabilities as theatrical laborers. That such commitments would be mutually compatible might initially seem surprising, in lig…
Let's Relax
Andrew Culp and the Cultural Studies Association’s Performance Working Group Co-Chair Hui Peng discuss “relaxed performance” with Leigh Jackson, Director of Accessibility and EDI Programming at People's Light outside of Philadelphia, and Dr. Hannah Simpson, Lecturer at the University of Edinburgh and author of "Samuel Beckett and Disability Performance" (Palgrave, 2022). This podcast is accompanied by a scholarly commentary by Patrick McKelvey
The Race for Rehabilitation
In 1967, the US Vocational Rehabilitation Administration (VRA) awarded $331,000 to the Eugene O'Neill Memorial Theatre Foundation to fund a new company, the National Theatre of the Deaf. Endowing such an enterprise was bold, but not entirely unprecedented for this federal agency tasked with restoring disabled Americans to productive employment. Founded in 1920, the federal–state vocational rehabilitation program, or VR, ascended to institutional …
Honest Work Done by Honest Dogs
This essay offers a performance history of The Seeing Eye (1929), which systematized efforts to train guide dogs for the blind in the United States. The Seeing Eye's charge was both rehabilitative and representational, facilitating blind Americans' productive citizenship by countering prevailing presumptions of blind dependence. To accomplish this, the organization developed a rich repertoire of quotidian performance practices designed to make bl…
The Mutuality of Intersex and Crip Politics
Psychology (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Economics (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Politics (2 works) · Psychoanalysis (2 works) · Rehabilitation (2 works)