Kimberlee Pérez
Biographic Data
| ID | 3681280 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kimberlee Pérez |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kimberlee |
| FAMILY NAME | Pérez |
| SIGNATURE | PEREZ K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Massachusetts Amherst |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 28 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
What performance/studies does (now)
Loneliness in a beautiful place”
Queer Intercultural Communication
Staging the family unfamiliar
Queer personal narratives that include family storytelling draw attention to normative conventions that produce queer family members’ sexuality as a “stage” through which they pass. Simultaneously, queer personal narratives call on nonnormative discourses to generate queer worldmaking sites of kinship and belonging. In this essay, I look to the ways D’Lo’s Ramble-Ations: A One D’Lo Show uses personal narrative and family storytelling to stage ref…
Letters
Research Article| June 01 2017 Letters Craig Gingrich Philbrook; Craig Gingrich Philbrook Craig Gingrich-Philbrook, PhD, is a professor in the Department of Communication Studies at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale. He teaches primarily in the areas of performance studies, autoethnography, and queer theory. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Kimberlee Pérez Kimberlee Pérez Kimberlee Pérez, PhD, is currently assista…
In the Wake of “The Violence of Heteronormativity”
Research Article| June 01 2017 In the Wake of “The Violence of Heteronormativity”: Reflecting on, Contending with Affective Remains Kimberlee Pérez; Kimberlee Pérez Kimberlee Pérez, PhD, is currently assistant professor in performance studies in the Department of Communication at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. She performs, researches, and teaches in the areas of performance, and queer and feminist of color studies. Her interests includ…
I Also Want More
Discussion| October 01 2016 I Also Want More Kimberlee Pérez Kimberlee Pérez Kimberlee Pérez, PhD, is currently assistant professor in performance studies in the Department of Communication at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. She performs, researches, and teaches in the areas of performance, and queer and feminist of color studies. Her interests include the politics of belonging and coalition, intimacy, personal narrative, and solo perfor…
You Can Get Anything You Want
I don’t like men. I thought I’d actually begin and end there. Walk in, say, “I don’t like men” and walk out. Like Arlo Guthrie, in “Alice’s Restaurant.” “You can get anything you want at Alice’s Restaurant.” The “Alice’s Restaurant” anti-massacre movement where “all you got to do to join is sing it the next time it comes around on the guitar.” I mean, we could, like the song—walk into the shrink’s office. Fifty people a day walk into the shrink’s…
Performance and Politics
Tim Miller is an artist, activist, and teacher who, through text and performance, creates awareness and initiates change on matters related to gay male culture, American patriotism, and civil liberties. The material from the interview has been edited and organized around four themes: marriage equality for gay men and lesbians in the United States, the evolution of his work over the past 35 years, relationships between performing and teaching, and…
Performing Queer Latinidad
Latinidad moves as a discourse with an ever-changing point of reference. Across mainstream, counterpublic, and academic representations, latinidad is deployed in ways that hail different ethnic, na
The Edges of Performance
Access and Accessibility
Queerness May Have Dodged a Bullet
Julia Johnson, Kimberlee Pérez, Queerness May Have Dodged a Bullet: Jodie Foster's Neoliberal “Coming-Out” Rhetoric and the Politics of Visibility, QED: A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking, Vol. 1, No. 1, “Chelsea Manning's Queer Discontents“ (Spring 2014), pp. 199-208
Sounding Like a No-No
Still Political
“Still Political” explores the politics of hair. Through interdisciplinary exploration and diverse methodologies that interweave and span personal narrative, autoethnography, performative writing, and collaborative performance, the pieces in this forum meditate on and question body/hair politics. Individually and collectively, through the sites of their bodies and experiences, the authors probe themes that include history, the academy, intimate a…
A Mexican Who Looks Like You”
“I never met a Mexican who looks like you.”OK.“I never met a Mexican who looks like you.”This is but one variation on what is at this point in my life not an unfamiliar declaration. Directive. Disc
Answering the Call
This paper explores the daily, psychic journeys Indian call center agents undergo as they 'virtually migrate' between India and the US. A thin cable that runs half way around the globe bridges the 'here' and the 'there', connecting agents to faraway customers in real time. The new time-space relations generated by this virtual contact create conditions for these workers to undergo a global 'migration' from India and to America, even as their bodi…
Answer the Call
Answer the Call explores the daily, psychic journeys Indian call center agents undergo as they virtually migrate between India and the U.S. The new time-space relations generated by this virtual contact create conditions for these workers to undergo a global "migration" from India and to America, even as their bodies remain bounded within the national homeland. This temporal arrangement displaces them from the daily rhythms of Indian life, genera…
Here, and Not Yet Here
To start this dialogue, guest editor Karma R. Chávez posed a series of general and unbinding questions to participants about the meanings of queer theory and its relationship with questions of culture. The dialogue unfolded over the course of three weeks in an online forum and covered several important themes. First, participants engaged questions surrounding the meaning of queer, and its relationship to different cultural and linguistic contexts…
When We Call One Another by Our Names
Potentialities and Ambivalences in the Performance of Queer Decorum
Treading Across Lines in the Sand
For all bodies, performance can be a site to untangle and grapple with one's place within hegemonic structures. Our bodies, the bodies of a WHITE-JEW-GAY-GUY and a BROWN-DYKE-GIRL, come to the stage to negotiate possibilities of joining our differently situated queer subjectivities through the process of generating and performing collaborative personal narrative. Through understanding, grounding, and interrupting the politics of our relation we d…
Belonging, Bridges, and Bodies
Feminists' negotiations of academic spaces are often facilitated by allies who act as bridges for us. We interviewed three pairs of women who are friends, colleagues, or partners and analyzed their stories for notions of how they were enacting bridgework for each other within the context of fluid identities, and shifting power relationships. We find that bridgework happens primarily along three axes in these relationships: bridging to community, …
Treading Across Lines in the Sand
For all bodies, performance can be a site to untangle and grapple with one's place within hegemonic structures. Our bodies, the bodies of a WHITE-JEW-GAY-GUY and a BROWN-DYKE-GIRL, come to the stage to negotiate possibilities of joining our differently situated queer subjectivities through the process of generating and performing collaborative personal narrative. Through understanding, grounding, and interrupting the politics of our relation we d…
When We Call One Another by Our Names
Here, and Not Yet Here
To start this dialogue, guest editor Karma R. Chávez posed a series of general and unbinding questions to participants about the meanings of queer theory and its relationship with questions of culture. The dialogue unfolded over the course of three weeks in an online forum and covered several important themes. First, participants engaged questions surrounding the meaning of queer, and its relationship to different cultural and linguistic contexts…
Potentialities and Ambivalences in the Performance of Queer Decorum
In the Wake of “The Violence of Heteronormativity”
Research Article| June 01 2017 In the Wake of “The Violence of Heteronormativity”: Reflecting on, Contending with Affective Remains Kimberlee Pérez; Kimberlee Pérez Kimberlee Pérez, PhD, is currently assistant professor in performance studies in the Department of Communication at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. She performs, researches, and teaches in the areas of performance, and queer and feminist of color studies. Her interests includ…
The Edges of Performance
Still Political
“Still Political” explores the politics of hair. Through interdisciplinary exploration and diverse methodologies that interweave and span personal narrative, autoethnography, performative writing, and collaborative performance, the pieces in this forum meditate on and question body/hair politics. Individually and collectively, through the sites of their bodies and experiences, the authors probe themes that include history, the academy, intimate a…
A Mexican Who Looks Like You”
“I never met a Mexican who looks like you.”OK.“I never met a Mexican who looks like you.”This is but one variation on what is at this point in my life not an unfamiliar declaration. Directive. Disc
Answering the Call
This paper explores the daily, psychic journeys Indian call center agents undergo as they 'virtually migrate' between India and the US. A thin cable that runs half way around the globe bridges the 'here' and the 'there', connecting agents to faraway customers in real time. The new time-space relations generated by this virtual contact create conditions for these workers to undergo a global 'migration' from India and to America, even as their bodi…
Belonging, Bridges, and Bodies
Feminists' negotiations of academic spaces are often facilitated by allies who act as bridges for us. We interviewed three pairs of women who are friends, colleagues, or partners and analyzed their stories for notions of how they were enacting bridgework for each other within the context of fluid identities, and shifting power relationships. We find that bridgework happens primarily along three axes in these relationships: bridging to community, …
Potentialities and Ambivalences in the Performance of Queer Decorum
Treading Across Lines in the Sand
For all bodies, performance can be a site to untangle and grapple with one's place within hegemonic structures. Our bodies, the bodies of a WHITE-JEW-GAY-GUY and a BROWN-DYKE-GIRL, come to the stage to negotiate possibilities of joining our differently situated queer subjectivities through the process of generating and performing collaborative personal narrative. Through understanding, grounding, and interrupting the politics of our relation we d…
Answer the Call
Answer the Call explores the daily, psychic journeys Indian call center agents undergo as they virtually migrate between India and the U.S. The new time-space relations generated by this virtual contact create conditions for these workers to undergo a global "migration" from India and to America, even as their bodies remain bounded within the national homeland. This temporal arrangement displaces them from the daily rhythms of Indian life, genera…
Here, and Not Yet Here
To start this dialogue, guest editor Karma R. Chávez posed a series of general and unbinding questions to participants about the meanings of queer theory and its relationship with questions of culture. The dialogue unfolded over the course of three weeks in an online forum and covered several important themes. First, participants engaged questions surrounding the meaning of queer, and its relationship to different cultural and linguistic contexts…
When We Call One Another by Our Names
Queerness May Have Dodged a Bullet
Julia Johnson, Kimberlee Pérez, Queerness May Have Dodged a Bullet: Jodie Foster's Neoliberal “Coming-Out” Rhetoric and the Politics of Visibility, QED: A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking, Vol. 1, No. 1, “Chelsea Manning's Queer Discontents“ (Spring 2014), pp. 199-208
Sounding Like a No-No
Still Political
“Still Political” explores the politics of hair. Through interdisciplinary exploration and diverse methodologies that interweave and span personal narrative, autoethnography, performative writing, and collaborative performance, the pieces in this forum meditate on and question body/hair politics. Individually and collectively, through the sites of their bodies and experiences, the authors probe themes that include history, the academy, intimate a…
A Mexican Who Looks Like You”
“I never met a Mexican who looks like you.”OK.“I never met a Mexican who looks like you.”This is but one variation on what is at this point in my life not an unfamiliar declaration. Directive. Disc
Answering the Call
This paper explores the daily, psychic journeys Indian call center agents undergo as they 'virtually migrate' between India and the US. A thin cable that runs half way around the globe bridges the 'here' and the 'there', connecting agents to faraway customers in real time. The new time-space relations generated by this virtual contact create conditions for these workers to undergo a global 'migration' from India and to America, even as their bodi…
You Can Get Anything You Want
I don’t like men. I thought I’d actually begin and end there. Walk in, say, “I don’t like men” and walk out. Like Arlo Guthrie, in “Alice’s Restaurant.” “You can get anything you want at Alice’s Restaurant.” The “Alice’s Restaurant” anti-massacre movement where “all you got to do to join is sing it the next time it comes around on the guitar.” I mean, we could, like the song—walk into the shrink’s office. Fifty people a day walk into the shrink’s…
Performance and Politics
Tim Miller is an artist, activist, and teacher who, through text and performance, creates awareness and initiates change on matters related to gay male culture, American patriotism, and civil liberties. The material from the interview has been edited and organized around four themes: marriage equality for gay men and lesbians in the United States, the evolution of his work over the past 35 years, relationships between performing and teaching, and…
Performing Queer Latinidad
Latinidad moves as a discourse with an ever-changing point of reference. Across mainstream, counterpublic, and academic representations, latinidad is deployed in ways that hail different ethnic, na
The Edges of Performance
Access and Accessibility
I Also Want More
Discussion| October 01 2016 I Also Want More Kimberlee Pérez Kimberlee Pérez Kimberlee Pérez, PhD, is currently assistant professor in performance studies in the Department of Communication at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. She performs, researches, and teaches in the areas of performance, and queer and feminist of color studies. Her interests include the politics of belonging and coalition, intimacy, personal narrative, and solo perfor…
Letters
Research Article| June 01 2017 Letters Craig Gingrich Philbrook; Craig Gingrich Philbrook Craig Gingrich-Philbrook, PhD, is a professor in the Department of Communication Studies at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale. He teaches primarily in the areas of performance studies, autoethnography, and queer theory. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Kimberlee Pérez Kimberlee Pérez Kimberlee Pérez, PhD, is currently assista…
In the Wake of “The Violence of Heteronormativity”
Research Article| June 01 2017 In the Wake of “The Violence of Heteronormativity”: Reflecting on, Contending with Affective Remains Kimberlee Pérez; Kimberlee Pérez Kimberlee Pérez, PhD, is currently assistant professor in performance studies in the Department of Communication at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. She performs, researches, and teaches in the areas of performance, and queer and feminist of color studies. Her interests includ…
Staging the family unfamiliar
Queer personal narratives that include family storytelling draw attention to normative conventions that produce queer family members’ sexuality as a “stage” through which they pass. Simultaneously, queer personal narratives call on nonnormative discourses to generate queer worldmaking sites of kinship and belonging. In this essay, I look to the ways D’Lo’s Ramble-Ations: A One D’Lo Show uses personal narrative and family storytelling to stage ref…
Queer Intercultural Communication
Loneliness in a beautiful place”
What performance/studies does (now)
Sociology (17 works) · Gender Studies (12 works) · Queer (12 works) · Gender Studies (11 works) · Art (10 works) · Computer Science (10 works) · Political science (10 works) · Politics (10 works) · Media studies (9 works) · Aesthetics (8 works)