Joshua Takano Chambers-Letson
Biographic Data
| ID | 212964 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joshua Takano Chambers-Letson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joshua Takano |
| FAMILY NAME | Chambers-Letson |
| SIGNATURE | CHAMBERS-LETSON J T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Joshua Takano Chambers-Letson is Assistant Professor in the Department of Performance Studies at Northwestern University where he is also affiliated with the Department of Theater. His book, A Race So Different: The Making of Asian Americans in Performance and Law, is under contract with NYU Press. He has published (or has forthcoming) articles in the Journal of Popular Music Studies, MELUS, Women and Performance, Criticism, and Topic Magazine. |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
After the Party
Winner, 2019 ATHE Outstanding Book Award, given by the Association for Theatre in Higher Education A new manifesto for performance studies on the art of queer of color worldmaking. After the Party tells the stories of minoritarian artists who mobilize performance to produce freedom and sustain life in the face of subordination, exploitation, and annihilation. Through the exemplary work of Nina Simone, Jorge Ignacio Cortiñas, Danh Vō, Felix Gonzal…
Cultural Studies
Cultural Studies Eng-Beng Lim, chair, Joshua Takano Chambers-Letson, and Lori Lopez Grace Hong's Death beyond Disavowal: The Impossible Politics of Difference (University of Minnesota Press, 2015) crosses disciplinary (de)limitations to model an Asian American studies project in intersectional, coalitional, and comparative terms. Our pick was guided by a sense of where Hong's book takes us in the field, and we think the suggested direction, at on…
Rule of law
In spring of 2011, Peter King (R-NY) convened a hearing titled ‘The Extent of Radicalization among American Muslims’ in the US House of Representatives. Democratic participants critiqued the hearings and contextualized the proceedings within the long history of institutionalized racism in the USA. They argued that the hearings were a threat to the Constitution itself, a violation of the Fourteenth Amendment's equal protection clause and the First…
Performed Otherwise
For this special edition of “Critical Stages,” Chambers-Letson and Son meditate on the following questions: What are the exigencies that animate your entry into the field of theatre and performance studies? How does a shared project in Asian American performance offer a range of possibilities for thinking through pressing political questions and crises that seem otherwise insurmountable
The Principle of Hope
A philosophical reflection on Signature Theater Company's 2010 New York revival of Tony Kushner's Angels in America considers the nature of hope in Kushner's play along side the political valences animated by this force in Signature's production
Burning Bluebeard (review)
"A Race So Different"
“A Race So Different”: Staging Racial Exception in Ping Chong’s Chinoiserie Get access Joshua Takano Chambers-Letson Joshua Takano Chambers-Letson Northwestern University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar MELUS, Volume 36, Issue 4, December 2011, Pages 115–139, https://doi.org/10.1353/mel.2011.0066 Published: 01 December 2011
Performed Otherwise
For this special edition of “Critical Stages,” Chambers-Letson and Son meditate on the following questions: What are the exigencies that animate your entry into the field of theatre and performance studies? How does a shared project in Asian American performance offer a range of possibilities for thinking through pressing political questions and crises that seem otherwise insurmountable
"A Race So Different"
“A Race So Different”: Staging Racial Exception in Ping Chong’s Chinoiserie Get access Joshua Takano Chambers-Letson Joshua Takano Chambers-Letson Northwestern University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar MELUS, Volume 36, Issue 4, December 2011, Pages 115–139, https://doi.org/10.1353/mel.2011.0066 Published: 01 December 2011
The Principle of Hope
A philosophical reflection on Signature Theater Company's 2010 New York revival of Tony Kushner's Angels in America considers the nature of hope in Kushner's play along side the political valences animated by this force in Signature's production
Burning Bluebeard (review)
Performed Otherwise
For this special edition of “Critical Stages,” Chambers-Letson and Son meditate on the following questions: What are the exigencies that animate your entry into the field of theatre and performance studies? How does a shared project in Asian American performance offer a range of possibilities for thinking through pressing political questions and crises that seem otherwise insurmountable
Rule of law
In spring of 2011, Peter King (R-NY) convened a hearing titled ‘The Extent of Radicalization among American Muslims’ in the US House of Representatives. Democratic participants critiqued the hearings and contextualized the proceedings within the long history of institutionalized racism in the USA. They argued that the hearings were a threat to the Constitution itself, a violation of the Fourteenth Amendment's equal protection clause and the First…
Cultural Studies
Cultural Studies Eng-Beng Lim, chair, Joshua Takano Chambers-Letson, and Lori Lopez Grace Hong's Death beyond Disavowal: The Impossible Politics of Difference (University of Minnesota Press, 2015) crosses disciplinary (de)limitations to model an Asian American studies project in intersectional, coalitional, and comparative terms. Our pick was guided by a sense of where Hong's book takes us in the field, and we think the suggested direction, at on…
After the Party
Winner, 2019 ATHE Outstanding Book Award, given by the Association for Theatre in Higher Education A new manifesto for performance studies on the art of queer of color worldmaking. After the Party tells the stories of minoritarian artists who mobilize performance to produce freedom and sustain life in the face of subordination, exploitation, and annihilation. Through the exemplary work of Nina Simone, Jorge Ignacio Cortiñas, Danh Vō, Felix Gonzal…
Political science (5 works) · Art (4 works) · History (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Asian American and Pacific Histories (3 works) · History (3 works) · Law (3 works)