Craig Gingrich‐philbrook
Biographic Data
| ID | 4522427 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Craig Gingrich‐philbrook |
| GIVEN NAMES | Craig |
| FAMILY NAME | Gingrich‐philbrook |
| SIGNATURE | PHILBROOK C G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Southern Illinois University Carbondale |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 81 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 26 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Breathing, Watching, and Weeping under Surveillance
Reflecting on new materialisms and performance, the author uses autoethnography to link his bodily experience with the materiality of wool (including a childhood friend’s flock of sheep, yarn as a man who crochets, and his dead father’s coat) to a spontaneous, prereflective decision to “lean in” to one of Joseph Beuys’s felt suits on display in a museum
Plastic/Animal/Addiction
This essay traces the author's lifelong affection for plastic animals, ultimately describing it as participating in the demotion of animals to playthings and a dangerous contribution to plastic waste
Coming Unhinged
This story tells about an accident that occurred at the 2016 International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry. The first author presents her autoethnography of her partner's fall and her subsequent reaction. Then to complicate and deepen her telling, she crafts a second multivoiced account from the responses of eight people who were part of the event. The participants' stories are juxtaposed to tell a multivoiced tale and to theorize what happened i…
Manifesto
The author reflects on his return to the International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry after sitting out a year to protest the Salaita affair. He draws on the experiences of the drive and what it means to once again be face to face with colleagues he admires, doing the work of thinking critically about the pressure of the law on sentences as descriptions of pain, vulnerability, and outrage—staples of autoethnography—become subject to punitive rea…
We Listen Together
In this brief essay, the author responds to a performative panel of essays by students of Devika Chawla. He situates his reading of the event betwixt and between typical modes of performance studies research, demonstrating how the panelists reveal narrative's power to reflect on the layering of time, power and privilege, and ways of knowing
Just a bunch of therapy”
The author reflects on the legacy of Leland H. Roloff as a resource for challenging the dismissive speech act that a given performance is “just a bunch of therapy.” He offers three consequences of this dismissive
On the execution of the young giraffe, Marius, by the Copenhagen Zoo
The author uses the work of Dwight Conquergood and posthumanist analysis to frame the killing of the young giraffe, Marius, by the Copenhagen Zoo as an execution. In doing so, he deploys the work of Irus Braverman to demonstrate the imbrication of humans, animal others, and technology in discourses of management of biopower and breeding value to pose the queer observation that it is none of our obligation to breed in captivity.
Autoethnography in an Almond Grove
The author offers a deconstructive reading of the distinction between “analytic” and “evocative” autoethnography, situating it as a shibboleth that, while useful to many, is often performed in ways that resemble the homophobic “concern” about the consequences of equality. He situates this deconstruction within a larger tale about the almond grove at the edge of his grandparents’ property and a reflection on the confirmation his grandmother gave h…
Reprogramming the Stage
In this essay, we expand upon scholarly conversations concerning digital performance to demonstrate how performance studies’ current, primarily humanistic, paradigm for theorizing digital performance is due for an upgrade. We review how rigorous articulations of digital performance disrupt a hegemonic struggle between liveness and virtuality and suggest that ontologies associated with posthumanism may better serve performers, theorists, and audie…
Exit Strategy (For My Grandmother, Margaret Gingrich)
This autoethnographic essay, based upon the author's performance of the same name, details a nexus of political and personal events that fostered suicidal ideation in the face of religious homophobia, as well as how an artifact of his late grandmother's helped him move past that ideation. It uses the phrase 'exit strategy' in multiple ways to reveal the limits of thinking that resistance to oppression can ever rest
A Knock at the Door
The author uses his long experience with his departmental theatre as a way to consider Howard Barker's valorization of the theatre door and Herbert Blau's notion of the stage edge, particularly in relationship to the theme of this special issue: thresholds
A Counterweight to Silence
ACT UP as a Structure of Feeling
Web-Based Performance Praxis as a Willingness to Die
Removed, and Making Do
The author considers the metaphorical implications and productivity of identity erasure in blind review. Specifically, he notes the potential and limitations of gay identity erasure, as the practice relates to gay confessions featured in the poetry of Ragan Fox
I Love This Animal
Additional informationNotes on contributorsCraig Gingrich-PhilbrookCraig Gingrich-Philbrook is Associate Professor at the Southern Illinois University, Carbondale
Ambition Vs. Inflation in the Poetry of Jorie Graham
Jorie Graham's poetry and critical reception offer a means for considering the relationship between literature and autoperformance. This essay (1) identifies three themes in criticism of Graham, (2) illustrates how these themes collectively enact a “creative double bind” between ambition and inflation in the lived experience of poetic composition, and (3) argues that attention to this double bind offers a way to perceive the force of address that…
Autoethnography's Family Values
This essay outlines one trajectory through autoethnography's embattled terrain at a specific historical/personal moment. The essay begins with an appreciation of autoethnography, at least as compared to its positivist alternatives, but also articulates a suspicion of autoethnography's pursuit of legitimacy. Here, the author articulates the double bind between the epistemic and aesthetic demands of autoethnography and autoethnographic performance.…
Love's Excluded Subjects
This essay responds to Luce Irigaray's essentialist call for men and women to assume their proper places in love's division of labour. In it, I propose a queer reading of her call, resituating it as a confining aesthetic for solo performance
Revenge of the dead subject
This essay offers critique of the call to specify the context of autoperformance, as if this context were not a construction. Michael Bowman's Killing Dillinger is used as an exemplar of auto‐performance's ability to resist the dismissives that it “preaches to the converted” and “turns away from the other.”
Disciplinary Violation as Gender Violation
Journal Article Disciplinary Violation as Gender Violation: The Stigmatized Masculine Voice of Performance Studies Get access Craig Gingrich-Philbrook Craig Gingrich-Philbrook 1Craig Gingrich-Philbrook is acting associate dean of the School of Communication, Hofstra University. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Communication Theory, Volume 8, Issue 2, 1 May 1998, Pages 203–220, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468…
Autobiographical performance and carnivorous knowledge
Refreshment
The unnatural performative
BODIES THAT MATTER: ON THE DISCURSIVE LIMITS OF “SEX.” By Judith Butler. New York: Routledge, 1993; pp. xii‐288; $49.95; paper $15.95. CRUISING THE PERFORMATIVE: INTERVENTIONS INTO THE REPRESENTATION OF ETHNICITY, NATIONALITY, AND SEXUALITY. Edited by Sue‐Ellen Case, Philip Brett, and Susan Leigh Foster. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1995; pp. x‐259; $35.00; paper $15.95. PERFORMATIVITY AND PERFORMANCE. Edited by Andrew Parker and Eve Ko…
Good vibration” or domination
Performances in the mythopoetic men's movement are designed to restore a deep and essential masculinity theorized by Robert Bly and those who have written handbooks attempting to put Bly's theory into practice. Judith Butler's analysis of gender as performatively constituted by “stylized repetitions of acts” establishes that the masculinity Bly and others wish to restore does not occur prior to the performances they propose to achieve that restor…
Autoethnography's Family Values
This essay outlines one trajectory through autoethnography's embattled terrain at a specific historical/personal moment. The essay begins with an appreciation of autoethnography, at least as compared to its positivist alternatives, but also articulates a suspicion of autoethnography's pursuit of legitimacy. Here, the author articulates the double bind between the epistemic and aesthetic demands of autoethnography and autoethnographic performance.…
Coming Unhinged
This story tells about an accident that occurred at the 2016 International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry. The first author presents her autoethnography of her partner's fall and her subsequent reaction. Then to complicate and deepen her telling, she crafts a second multivoiced account from the responses of eight people who were part of the event. The participants' stories are juxtaposed to tell a multivoiced tale and to theorize what happened i…
Revenge of the dead subject
This essay offers critique of the call to specify the context of autoperformance, as if this context were not a construction. Michael Bowman's Killing Dillinger is used as an exemplar of auto‐performance's ability to resist the dismissives that it “preaches to the converted” and “turns away from the other.”
Disciplinary Violation as Gender Violation
Journal Article Disciplinary Violation as Gender Violation: The Stigmatized Masculine Voice of Performance Studies Get access Craig Gingrich-Philbrook Craig Gingrich-Philbrook 1Craig Gingrich-Philbrook is acting associate dean of the School of Communication, Hofstra University. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Communication Theory, Volume 8, Issue 2, 1 May 1998, Pages 203–220, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468…
Good vibration” or domination
Performances in the mythopoetic men's movement are designed to restore a deep and essential masculinity theorized by Robert Bly and those who have written handbooks attempting to put Bly's theory into practice. Judith Butler's analysis of gender as performatively constituted by “stylized repetitions of acts” establishes that the masculinity Bly and others wish to restore does not occur prior to the performances they propose to achieve that restor…
Ambition Vs. Inflation in the Poetry of Jorie Graham
Jorie Graham's poetry and critical reception offer a means for considering the relationship between literature and autoperformance. This essay (1) identifies three themes in criticism of Graham, (2) illustrates how these themes collectively enact a “creative double bind” between ambition and inflation in the lived experience of poetic composition, and (3) argues that attention to this double bind offers a way to perceive the force of address that…
Refreshment
The unnatural performative
BODIES THAT MATTER: ON THE DISCURSIVE LIMITS OF “SEX.” By Judith Butler. New York: Routledge, 1993; pp. xii‐288; $49.95; paper $15.95. CRUISING THE PERFORMATIVE: INTERVENTIONS INTO THE REPRESENTATION OF ETHNICITY, NATIONALITY, AND SEXUALITY. Edited by Sue‐Ellen Case, Philip Brett, and Susan Leigh Foster. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1995; pp. x‐259; $35.00; paper $15.95. PERFORMATIVITY AND PERFORMANCE. Edited by Andrew Parker and Eve Ko…
Reprogramming the Stage
In this essay, we expand upon scholarly conversations concerning digital performance to demonstrate how performance studies’ current, primarily humanistic, paradigm for theorizing digital performance is due for an upgrade. We review how rigorous articulations of digital performance disrupt a hegemonic struggle between liveness and virtuality and suggest that ontologies associated with posthumanism may better serve performers, theorists, and audie…
I Love This Animal
Additional informationNotes on contributorsCraig Gingrich-PhilbrookCraig Gingrich-Philbrook is Associate Professor at the Southern Illinois University, Carbondale
A Counterweight to Silence
Autobiographical performance and carnivorous knowledge
Books reviewed
SEMIOTICS OF VISUAL LANGUAGE. By Fernande Saint‐Martin. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1990; pp. xiv‐255. $38.00. METAPHOR & ART: INTERACTIONISM AND REFERENCE IN THE VERBAL AND NONVERBAL ARTS. By Carl R. Hausman. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1989; pp. xi‐238. $42.50. ENVISIONING INFORMATION. By Edward R. Tufte. Cheshire, CT: Graphics Press, 1990; pp. 9–126. $48.00. THE AUDIENCE. By Herbert Blau. Baltimore: Johns Hop…
Good vibration” or domination
Performances in the mythopoetic men's movement are designed to restore a deep and essential masculinity theorized by Robert Bly and those who have written handbooks attempting to put Bly's theory into practice. Judith Butler's analysis of gender as performatively constituted by “stylized repetitions of acts” establishes that the masculinity Bly and others wish to restore does not occur prior to the performances they propose to achieve that restor…
Refreshment
The unnatural performative
BODIES THAT MATTER: ON THE DISCURSIVE LIMITS OF “SEX.” By Judith Butler. New York: Routledge, 1993; pp. xii‐288; $49.95; paper $15.95. CRUISING THE PERFORMATIVE: INTERVENTIONS INTO THE REPRESENTATION OF ETHNICITY, NATIONALITY, AND SEXUALITY. Edited by Sue‐Ellen Case, Philip Brett, and Susan Leigh Foster. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1995; pp. x‐259; $35.00; paper $15.95. PERFORMATIVITY AND PERFORMANCE. Edited by Andrew Parker and Eve Ko…
Disciplinary Violation as Gender Violation
Journal Article Disciplinary Violation as Gender Violation: The Stigmatized Masculine Voice of Performance Studies Get access Craig Gingrich-Philbrook Craig Gingrich-Philbrook 1Craig Gingrich-Philbrook is acting associate dean of the School of Communication, Hofstra University. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Communication Theory, Volume 8, Issue 2, 1 May 1998, Pages 203–220, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468…
Autobiographical performance and carnivorous knowledge
Revenge of the dead subject
This essay offers critique of the call to specify the context of autoperformance, as if this context were not a construction. Michael Bowman's Killing Dillinger is used as an exemplar of auto‐performance's ability to resist the dismissives that it “preaches to the converted” and “turns away from the other.”
Love's Excluded Subjects
This essay responds to Luce Irigaray's essentialist call for men and women to assume their proper places in love's division of labour. In it, I propose a queer reading of her call, resituating it as a confining aesthetic for solo performance
Ambition Vs. Inflation in the Poetry of Jorie Graham
Jorie Graham's poetry and critical reception offer a means for considering the relationship between literature and autoperformance. This essay (1) identifies three themes in criticism of Graham, (2) illustrates how these themes collectively enact a “creative double bind” between ambition and inflation in the lived experience of poetic composition, and (3) argues that attention to this double bind offers a way to perceive the force of address that…
Autoethnography's Family Values
This essay outlines one trajectory through autoethnography's embattled terrain at a specific historical/personal moment. The essay begins with an appreciation of autoethnography, at least as compared to its positivist alternatives, but also articulates a suspicion of autoethnography's pursuit of legitimacy. Here, the author articulates the double bind between the epistemic and aesthetic demands of autoethnography and autoethnographic performance.…
Removed, and Making Do
The author considers the metaphorical implications and productivity of identity erasure in blind review. Specifically, he notes the potential and limitations of gay identity erasure, as the practice relates to gay confessions featured in the poetry of Ragan Fox
I Love This Animal
Additional informationNotes on contributorsCraig Gingrich-PhilbrookCraig Gingrich-Philbrook is Associate Professor at the Southern Illinois University, Carbondale
Web-Based Performance Praxis as a Willingness to Die
ACT UP as a Structure of Feeling
A Knock at the Door
The author uses his long experience with his departmental theatre as a way to consider Howard Barker's valorization of the theatre door and Herbert Blau's notion of the stage edge, particularly in relationship to the theme of this special issue: thresholds
A Counterweight to Silence
Exit Strategy (For My Grandmother, Margaret Gingrich)
This autoethnographic essay, based upon the author's performance of the same name, details a nexus of political and personal events that fostered suicidal ideation in the face of religious homophobia, as well as how an artifact of his late grandmother's helped him move past that ideation. It uses the phrase 'exit strategy' in multiple ways to reveal the limits of thinking that resistance to oppression can ever rest
Reprogramming the Stage
In this essay, we expand upon scholarly conversations concerning digital performance to demonstrate how performance studies’ current, primarily humanistic, paradigm for theorizing digital performance is due for an upgrade. We review how rigorous articulations of digital performance disrupt a hegemonic struggle between liveness and virtuality and suggest that ontologies associated with posthumanism may better serve performers, theorists, and audie…
On the execution of the young giraffe, Marius, by the Copenhagen Zoo
The author uses the work of Dwight Conquergood and posthumanist analysis to frame the killing of the young giraffe, Marius, by the Copenhagen Zoo as an execution. In doing so, he deploys the work of Irus Braverman to demonstrate the imbrication of humans, animal others, and technology in discourses of management of biopower and breeding value to pose the queer observation that it is none of our obligation to breed in captivity.
Autoethnography in an Almond Grove
The author offers a deconstructive reading of the distinction between “analytic” and “evocative” autoethnography, situating it as a shibboleth that, while useful to many, is often performed in ways that resemble the homophobic “concern” about the consequences of equality. He situates this deconstruction within a larger tale about the almond grove at the edge of his grandparents’ property and a reflection on the confirmation his grandmother gave h…
Manifesto
The author reflects on his return to the International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry after sitting out a year to protest the Salaita affair. He draws on the experiences of the drive and what it means to once again be face to face with colleagues he admires, doing the work of thinking critically about the pressure of the law on sentences as descriptions of pain, vulnerability, and outrage—staples of autoethnography—become subject to punitive rea…
We Listen Together
In this brief essay, the author responds to a performative panel of essays by students of Devika Chawla. He situates his reading of the event betwixt and between typical modes of performance studies research, demonstrating how the panelists reveal narrative's power to reflect on the layering of time, power and privilege, and ways of knowing
Just a bunch of therapy”
The author reflects on the legacy of Leland H. Roloff as a resource for challenging the dismissive speech act that a given performance is “just a bunch of therapy.” He offers three consequences of this dismissive
Coming Unhinged
This story tells about an accident that occurred at the 2016 International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry. The first author presents her autoethnography of her partner's fall and her subsequent reaction. Then to complicate and deepen her telling, she crafts a second multivoiced account from the responses of eight people who were part of the event. The participants' stories are juxtaposed to tell a multivoiced tale and to theorize what happened i…
Plastic/Animal/Addiction
This essay traces the author's lifelong affection for plastic animals, ultimately describing it as participating in the demotion of animals to playthings and a dangerous contribution to plastic waste
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