Robin Bernstein
Biographic Data
| ID | 3613255 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robin Bernstein |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robin |
| FAMILY NAME | Bernstein |
| SIGNATURE | BERNSTEIN R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Department of Anthropology University of Colorado at Boulder Boulder Colorado USA |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 45 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Palaeoanthropology and the study of pre-adult fossil remains
The workshop advanced efforts to understand human evolution, particularly the selective pressures shaping patterns of growth and maturity across a broad range of hominin species
Addressing the growing fossil record of subadult hominins by reaching across disciplines
The field of paleoanthropology lacks a coherent methodology to study ontogeny in extinct hominins. During the past two decades in this field, several factors have served as an impetus to better define this subfield of study within human evolution. First is the increased recovery of immature hominin remains that span multiple genera-Australopithecus, Paranthropus, and Homo
Scriptive Things
Everyone Is Impressed: Slavery as a Tender Embrace from Uncle Tom’s to Uncle Remus’s Cabin
Tender Angels, Insensate Pickaninnies: The Divergent Paths of Racial Innocence
The Black-and-Whiteness of Raggedy Ann
I'm Very Happy to Be in the Reality-Based Community: Alison Bechdel'sFun Home, Digital Photography, and George W. Bush
This essay historicizes Alison Bechdel's 2006 graphic memoir Fun Home in the context of the presidency of George W. Bush. Bechdel created Fun Home from 1999 through 2005-dates that corresponded with Bush's campaign, election, and presidency. As Bechdel frequently laments in her serialized comic strip Dykes to Watch Out For, the Bush presidency posited truth as unknowable, facts as infinitely flexible, and faith as constitutive of reality. Fun Hom…
Utopian Movements: Nikki Giovanni and the Convocation Following the Virginia Tech Massacre
A seemingly impossible, utopian moment occurred on April 16, 2007 at the convocation following the mass shooting at Virginia Tech, in which student Seung-Hui Cho killed 32 students and faculty members. Nikki Giovanni, a luminary of the Black Arts Movement and a professor at Virginia Tech, read her stirring poem, "We Are Virginia Tech," to the capacity audience in Cassell Coliseum. At the poem's conclusion, the full house rose cheering and chanted…
Toward the Integration of Theatre History and Affect Studies: Shame and the Rude Mechs's The Method Gun
As affect studies has become increasingly central to performance studies and many other fields, a question has emerged: How can one historicize affect? This essay forges one answer through analysis of The Method Gun , a 2008 avant-garde theatrical piece created by the Austin-based company the Rude Mechs. The Method Gun simultaneously archives actors' historically specific feelings of shame, and reveals shame as a motor that powers much contempora…
Racial Innocence: Performing American Childhood from Slavery to Civil Rights
2013 Book Award Winner from the International Research Society in Children's Literature2012 Outstanding Book Award Winner from the Association for Theatre in Higher Education 2012 Winner of the Lois P. Rudnick Book Prize presented by the New England American Studies Association 2012 Runner-Up, John Hope Franklin Publication Prize presented by the American Studies Association2012 Honorable Mention, Distinguished Book Award presented by the Society…
Dances with Things
Proceeding from Robyn Wiegman's call for a transition from questions of “why” to “how” with regard to formations of race, this article proposes a heuristic, the “scriptive thing,” to analyze ways in which racial subjectivation emerges through everyday physical engagement with the material world. The term scriptive thing integrates performance studies and “thing theory” by highlighting the ways in which things prompt, structure, or choreograph beh…
Staging the Jew: The Performance of an American Ethnicity, 1860- 1920 (review)
Reviewed by: Staging The Jew: The Performance Of An American Ethnicity, 1860–1920 Robin Bernstein Staging The Jew: The Performance Of An American Ethnicity, 1860–1920. By Harley Erdman. New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 1997; pp. 224. Cloth $50.00, paper $19.95. In his lucid and engaging Staging the Jew: The Performance of an American Ethnicity, 1860–1920, Harley Erdman traces the changing ways in which both Jews and gentiles p…
Dances with Things
Proceeding from Robyn Wiegman's call for a transition from questions of “why” to “how” with regard to formations of race, this article proposes a heuristic, the “scriptive thing,” to analyze ways in which racial subjectivation emerges through everyday physical engagement with the material world. The term scriptive thing integrates performance studies and “thing theory” by highlighting the ways in which things prompt, structure, or choreograph beh…
Addressing the growing fossil record of subadult hominins by reaching across disciplines
The field of paleoanthropology lacks a coherent methodology to study ontogeny in extinct hominins. During the past two decades in this field, several factors have served as an impetus to better define this subfield of study within human evolution. First is the increased recovery of immature hominin remains that span multiple genera-Australopithecus, Paranthropus, and Homo
Palaeoanthropology and the study of pre-adult fossil remains
The workshop advanced efforts to understand human evolution, particularly the selective pressures shaping patterns of growth and maturity across a broad range of hominin species
I'm Very Happy to Be in the Reality-Based Community: Alison Bechdel'sFun Home, Digital Photography, and George W. Bush
This essay historicizes Alison Bechdel's 2006 graphic memoir Fun Home in the context of the presidency of George W. Bush. Bechdel created Fun Home from 1999 through 2005-dates that corresponded with Bush's campaign, election, and presidency. As Bechdel frequently laments in her serialized comic strip Dykes to Watch Out For, the Bush presidency posited truth as unknowable, facts as infinitely flexible, and faith as constitutive of reality. Fun Hom…
Utopian Movements: Nikki Giovanni and the Convocation Following the Virginia Tech Massacre
A seemingly impossible, utopian moment occurred on April 16, 2007 at the convocation following the mass shooting at Virginia Tech, in which student Seung-Hui Cho killed 32 students and faculty members. Nikki Giovanni, a luminary of the Black Arts Movement and a professor at Virginia Tech, read her stirring poem, "We Are Virginia Tech," to the capacity audience in Cassell Coliseum. At the poem's conclusion, the full house rose cheering and chanted…
Toward the Integration of Theatre History and Affect Studies: Shame and the Rude Mechs's The Method Gun
As affect studies has become increasingly central to performance studies and many other fields, a question has emerged: How can one historicize affect? This essay forges one answer through analysis of The Method Gun , a 2008 avant-garde theatrical piece created by the Austin-based company the Rude Mechs. The Method Gun simultaneously archives actors' historically specific feelings of shame, and reveals shame as a motor that powers much contempora…
Staging the Jew: The Performance of an American Ethnicity, 1860- 1920 (review)
Reviewed by: Staging The Jew: The Performance Of An American Ethnicity, 1860–1920 Robin Bernstein Staging The Jew: The Performance Of An American Ethnicity, 1860–1920. By Harley Erdman. New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 1997; pp. 224. Cloth $50.00, paper $19.95. In his lucid and engaging Staging the Jew: The Performance of an American Ethnicity, 1860–1920, Harley Erdman traces the changing ways in which both Jews and gentiles p…
Dances with Things
Proceeding from Robyn Wiegman's call for a transition from questions of “why” to “how” with regard to formations of race, this article proposes a heuristic, the “scriptive thing,” to analyze ways in which racial subjectivation emerges through everyday physical engagement with the material world. The term scriptive thing integrates performance studies and “thing theory” by highlighting the ways in which things prompt, structure, or choreograph beh…
Racial Innocence: Performing American Childhood from Slavery to Civil Rights
2013 Book Award Winner from the International Research Society in Children's Literature2012 Outstanding Book Award Winner from the Association for Theatre in Higher Education 2012 Winner of the Lois P. Rudnick Book Prize presented by the New England American Studies Association 2012 Runner-Up, John Hope Franklin Publication Prize presented by the American Studies Association2012 Honorable Mention, Distinguished Book Award presented by the Society…
Utopian Movements: Nikki Giovanni and the Convocation Following the Virginia Tech Massacre
A seemingly impossible, utopian moment occurred on April 16, 2007 at the convocation following the mass shooting at Virginia Tech, in which student Seung-Hui Cho killed 32 students and faculty members. Nikki Giovanni, a luminary of the Black Arts Movement and a professor at Virginia Tech, read her stirring poem, "We Are Virginia Tech," to the capacity audience in Cassell Coliseum. At the poem's conclusion, the full house rose cheering and chanted…
Toward the Integration of Theatre History and Affect Studies: Shame and the Rude Mechs's The Method Gun
As affect studies has become increasingly central to performance studies and many other fields, a question has emerged: How can one historicize affect? This essay forges one answer through analysis of The Method Gun , a 2008 avant-garde theatrical piece created by the Austin-based company the Rude Mechs. The Method Gun simultaneously archives actors' historically specific feelings of shame, and reveals shame as a motor that powers much contempora…
I'm Very Happy to Be in the Reality-Based Community: Alison Bechdel'sFun Home, Digital Photography, and George W. Bush
This essay historicizes Alison Bechdel's 2006 graphic memoir Fun Home in the context of the presidency of George W. Bush. Bechdel created Fun Home from 1999 through 2005-dates that corresponded with Bush's campaign, election, and presidency. As Bechdel frequently laments in her serialized comic strip Dykes to Watch Out For, the Bush presidency posited truth as unknowable, facts as infinitely flexible, and faith as constitutive of reality. Fun Hom…
Scriptive Things
Everyone Is Impressed: Slavery as a Tender Embrace from Uncle Tom’s to Uncle Remus’s Cabin
Tender Angels, Insensate Pickaninnies: The Divergent Paths of Racial Innocence
The Black-and-Whiteness of Raggedy Ann
Addressing the growing fossil record of subadult hominins by reaching across disciplines
The field of paleoanthropology lacks a coherent methodology to study ontogeny in extinct hominins. During the past two decades in this field, several factors have served as an impetus to better define this subfield of study within human evolution. First is the increased recovery of immature hominin remains that span multiple genera-Australopithecus, Paranthropus, and Homo
Palaeoanthropology and the study of pre-adult fossil remains
The workshop advanced efforts to understand human evolution, particularly the selective pressures shaping patterns of growth and maturity across a broad range of hominin species
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