Kimberly Powell
Biographic Data
| ID | 3638775 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kimberly Powell |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kimberly |
| FAMILY NAME | Powell |
| SIGNATURE | POWELL K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Pennsylvania State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6144-1438 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 94 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Becoming intercultural: Cultural mapping for language teacher professional development
This article examines how cultural mapping supports intercultural learning among EFL teachers in South Korea and Taiwan during a 16-week virtual professional development (PD) program. Data included interviews, reflective journals, mapping artifacts, and video-recorded online meetings. Findings show that cultural mapping encouraged teachers to critically reflect on their understanding of culture and interculturality, transforming their teaching as…
Walking the Map
In this article, I discuss how walking as mapping serves as a method for observing and disrupting spatial geopolitics, opening possibilities for alternative systems of living. I explore three theoretical perspectives-posthumanism, Indigenous and decolonializing theories of land, and Black geography-that, while distinct, nonetheless share some overlapping characteristics: the recognition and contestation of knowledge systems, the turn toward a rel…
Refrains for More-Than-Human Intimacy: Mutual Inclusion With a Canine Difference
In my article, I speculate on intimacy that embraces uncertainty, difference, and/in more-than-human relations. An intimacy that embraces uncertainty is what Massumi characterizes as 'indiscernable expression'-that which may not be clearly perceived-through play and walking encounters with humans and dogs. That which differs from itself has preoccupied my relationship with my dog and provides an occasion to think with intimacy toward humans and a…
Embodying Moral Discourses Through Arts-Based Methodologies: Poetry, Visual Arts, Movement, Sounds, and Performance
Multimodal Mapmaking: Working Toward an Entangled Methodology of Place
This article addresses mapmaking as a multimodal method and lens for place-based ethnographic inquiry. I describe three contexts drawn from my research on and teaching of mapmaking. Drawing from my own sense-making of mapping as an embodied phenomenon, I discuss how the fields of sensory and materialist studies might expand the interpretive possibilities of multimodal ethnography as an epistemological and ontological lens involving the entangleme…
Breathing Photography: Prosthetic Encounters in Research-Creation
In this article, I write performatively about an artistic practice known as carbon photo printing as a prosthetic space where embodied encounters of images, memory, personal reflection, poetic refrains, materials, creation, and research are brought together in contiguous relation. Drawing primarily from Charles Garoian's theory of art and research prosthesis and from Brian Massumi's theories of semblance and research-creation, I describe processe…
Making Sense of Place: Mapping as a Multisensory Research Method
This article argues for the importance of mapping as a multisensory research method in terms of its ability to evoke relationships between place, lived experience, and community. Based on an interdisciplinary summer research course for graduate and undergraduate students that focused on the analysis and design of appropriate development strategies for the El Chorrillo neighborhood in Panama City, Panama, the author describes a research project th…
Drumming Against the Quiet: The Sounds of Asian American Identity in an Amorphous Landscape
Drawing largely from the realm of performance theory, critical race theory, and Asian American studies, the author examines the ways in which performance, performativity, and the cooptation of aesthetic forms constitute and disrupt racial identity categories. In this article, the author focuses on the growing contemporary artistic practice of taiko drumming and its role in Asian American identity politics. As an artist-researcher, the author uses…
The Apprenticeship of Embodied Knowledge in a Taiko Drumming Ensemble
Special Series on Arts-Based Educational Research: Art In Science
This article presents the results of a study of artistry in the practice of research in the social sciences. Traditionally, science and art have been regarded as complementary, one dealing with the expression of feeling, the other with the pursuit of truth. Art, it is widely believed, is largely ornamental in life—nice but not necessary; science is critical to the future. Yet science has a personal side as well as a public one. What is the person…
Making Sense of Place: Mapping as a Multisensory Research Method
This article argues for the importance of mapping as a multisensory research method in terms of its ability to evoke relationships between place, lived experience, and community. Based on an interdisciplinary summer research course for graduate and undergraduate students that focused on the analysis and design of appropriate development strategies for the El Chorrillo neighborhood in Panama City, Panama, the author describes a research project th…
Special Series on Arts-Based Educational Research: Art In Science
This article presents the results of a study of artistry in the practice of research in the social sciences. Traditionally, science and art have been regarded as complementary, one dealing with the expression of feeling, the other with the pursuit of truth. Art, it is widely believed, is largely ornamental in life—nice but not necessary; science is critical to the future. Yet science has a personal side as well as a public one. What is the person…
Drumming Against the Quiet: The Sounds of Asian American Identity in an Amorphous Landscape
Drawing largely from the realm of performance theory, critical race theory, and Asian American studies, the author examines the ways in which performance, performativity, and the cooptation of aesthetic forms constitute and disrupt racial identity categories. In this article, the author focuses on the growing contemporary artistic practice of taiko drumming and its role in Asian American identity politics. As an artist-researcher, the author uses…
Multimodal Mapmaking: Working Toward an Entangled Methodology of Place
This article addresses mapmaking as a multimodal method and lens for place-based ethnographic inquiry. I describe three contexts drawn from my research on and teaching of mapmaking. Drawing from my own sense-making of mapping as an embodied phenomenon, I discuss how the fields of sensory and materialist studies might expand the interpretive possibilities of multimodal ethnography as an epistemological and ontological lens involving the entangleme…
Breathing Photography: Prosthetic Encounters in Research-Creation
In this article, I write performatively about an artistic practice known as carbon photo printing as a prosthetic space where embodied encounters of images, memory, personal reflection, poetic refrains, materials, creation, and research are brought together in contiguous relation. Drawing primarily from Charles Garoian's theory of art and research prosthesis and from Brian Massumi's theories of semblance and research-creation, I describe processe…
Embodying Moral Discourses Through Arts-Based Methodologies: Poetry, Visual Arts, Movement, Sounds, and Performance
Special Series on Arts-Based Educational Research: Art In Science
This article presents the results of a study of artistry in the practice of research in the social sciences. Traditionally, science and art have been regarded as complementary, one dealing with the expression of feeling, the other with the pursuit of truth. Art, it is widely believed, is largely ornamental in life—nice but not necessary; science is critical to the future. Yet science has a personal side as well as a public one. What is the person…
The Apprenticeship of Embodied Knowledge in a Taiko Drumming Ensemble
Drumming Against the Quiet: The Sounds of Asian American Identity in an Amorphous Landscape
Drawing largely from the realm of performance theory, critical race theory, and Asian American studies, the author examines the ways in which performance, performativity, and the cooptation of aesthetic forms constitute and disrupt racial identity categories. In this article, the author focuses on the growing contemporary artistic practice of taiko drumming and its role in Asian American identity politics. As an artist-researcher, the author uses…
Making Sense of Place: Mapping as a Multisensory Research Method
This article argues for the importance of mapping as a multisensory research method in terms of its ability to evoke relationships between place, lived experience, and community. Based on an interdisciplinary summer research course for graduate and undergraduate students that focused on the analysis and design of appropriate development strategies for the El Chorrillo neighborhood in Panama City, Panama, the author describes a research project th…
Breathing Photography: Prosthetic Encounters in Research-Creation
In this article, I write performatively about an artistic practice known as carbon photo printing as a prosthetic space where embodied encounters of images, memory, personal reflection, poetic refrains, materials, creation, and research are brought together in contiguous relation. Drawing primarily from Charles Garoian's theory of art and research prosthesis and from Brian Massumi's theories of semblance and research-creation, I describe processe…
Multimodal Mapmaking: Working Toward an Entangled Methodology of Place
This article addresses mapmaking as a multimodal method and lens for place-based ethnographic inquiry. I describe three contexts drawn from my research on and teaching of mapmaking. Drawing from my own sense-making of mapping as an embodied phenomenon, I discuss how the fields of sensory and materialist studies might expand the interpretive possibilities of multimodal ethnography as an epistemological and ontological lens involving the entangleme…
Embodying Moral Discourses Through Arts-Based Methodologies: Poetry, Visual Arts, Movement, Sounds, and Performance
Refrains for More-Than-Human Intimacy: Mutual Inclusion With a Canine Difference
In my article, I speculate on intimacy that embraces uncertainty, difference, and/in more-than-human relations. An intimacy that embraces uncertainty is what Massumi characterizes as 'indiscernable expression'-that which may not be clearly perceived-through play and walking encounters with humans and dogs. That which differs from itself has preoccupied my relationship with my dog and provides an occasion to think with intimacy toward humans and a…
Walking the Map
In this article, I discuss how walking as mapping serves as a method for observing and disrupting spatial geopolitics, opening possibilities for alternative systems of living. I explore three theoretical perspectives-posthumanism, Indigenous and decolonializing theories of land, and Black geography-that, while distinct, nonetheless share some overlapping characteristics: the recognition and contestation of knowledge systems, the turn toward a rel…
Becoming intercultural: Cultural mapping for language teacher professional development
This article examines how cultural mapping supports intercultural learning among EFL teachers in South Korea and Taiwan during a 16-week virtual professional development (PD) program. Data included interviews, reflective journals, mapping artifacts, and video-recorded online meetings. Findings show that cultural mapping encouraged teachers to critically reflect on their understanding of culture and interculturality, transforming their teaching as…
Sociology (9 works) · Art (7 works) · Aesthetics (5 works) · Epistemology (5 works) · Geographies of human-animal interactions (5 works) · Visual arts (5 works) · Anthropology (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Embodied cognition (3 works) · Ethnography (3 works)