Stacy Holman Jones
Biographic Data
| ID | 79537 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stacy Holman Jones |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stacy Holman |
| FAMILY NAME | Jones |
| SIGNATURE | JONES S H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Monash University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8752-527X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 79 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 226 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 76 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Alive in Me
In an interview with Sarah Heying on the publication of her collection of poems Magnified in 2021, Minnie Bruce Pratt said, ‘my words and my actions have entered the current of struggle. They are alive in people. That’s all I want’ (2021). Writing beside and across Pratt and her body of work, I explore how life writing is not singular but relational and performative – a reaching across time, difference, and shared struggle that keeps words alive …
Feeling Our Way Forward
This paper outlines the understanding of imaginative agency – the confidence, capacity, and creativity to imagine plural and equitable collective futures and move toward them – through examples from workshop-based participatory research. It shows how emotions play a vital role in animating imaginative agency and enabling its affective and bodily complexity. This approach counters the common neglect of feelings as world-making forces in design pra…
Let Us Laugh Loudly Like Norman
In this short essay, we remember Norman Denzin, the “father of qualitative inquiry,” through performative and autoethnographic registers, modalities that sit within the Denzin-cemented streams of qualitative inquiry. We incorporate a rich array of words from leading scholars in autoethnography, performance, and narrative inquiry on Norman’s influence, leadership, and allyship. Finally, we weave a tapestry from Norman’s impact on us as people and …
Creative Ecologies in Borderline Personality Disorder Research
This article draws on the power of creative methods to call for a more collaborative, ecological approach to awareness, education, and research analysis of Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD). Drawing on affect theory and empirical research using a co-creation methodology, we advocate for the power of peer-directed support provision for those experiencing BPD. Through recognition and advocacy for this emerging area, the article advances the way…
Intersectionality, interdisciplinarity and mental health in education
Four Movements From Melbourne
This collaborative autoethnography invited and engaged 16 participants in a workshop to both explore and embody autoethnography as communal activity. Working in four groups, each group determined a prompt for reflection and remembrance, writing individually and sharing communally their diverse but interlocking cultural memory and practice
Being 'Here'/Being 'THERE' (An Ode to Tami SPRY, Mostly in Her Own Words)
The authors detail the profound impact that Tami Spry has had on their lives and their work, but through her words and embodiments. The essay/performance uses Spry's own words in part to elevate their documentation of her influence
Living Room
This essay is an account of creating a learning encounter for other artists. We write our becoming together, finding our way to do justice both to the fluidity of (our) process and to the fluidity of processes of "making good practice" to creatively care for the health and wellbeing of artists in a context of precarity. Our "creative-relational" inquiry frames the learning encounter and co-exists in the planning-testing-doing process we used to d…
The Starcraft of Intimacy
In this poetic autoethnographic essay, we explore how the object of the caravan is a site and home for the creation of queer subjectivities and relations with the more-than-human world. As a queer object of resistance, the caravan opens us up to both the beautiful and the monstrous in our worlds and ourselves. 1
Autoethnography and the Materials of Resistance
This short essay introduces a special section of short poetic essays that meditate on and around the idea of autoethnography and/as material resistance
Un/Masking Truth
This autoethnographic essay explores the effects of the US Supreme Court’s striking down Roe and Casey decisions on adoption and adopted children. In an effort to ‘unmask’ these effects, this essay seeks to create a transformative visions for living better in light of this decision
A creative ecological approach to supporting young people with mental health challenges in schools
Holistic and ecological approaches to mental health support have been identified by many as best-practice approaches for creating and sustaining well-being. Those who experience mental health challenges including, for example, Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD), often struggle to find adequate, sustainable and ongoing care from clinical settings, and recent research shows that additional strategies such as peer support programs, arts approache…
Wandering Fests
Based on a number of PhD workshops called Wandering Feasts, in collaboration between Monash University and Design School Kolding, this article explores academic writing as both a mode and a method of inquiry. The article both points to and performs five creative-relational orientations to alternative academic writing: Performativity in challenging dominant ways of knowing and representing knowledge in the academy; emergence as mindfully holding o…
Pandemic Puppy
This performative piece considers human-animal relations in pandemic and post(?) pandemic times, in particular the exponential increase in pet adoptions during the COVID-19 lockdowns and the subsequent spectacular rise in pet relinquishments and abandonments following the easing of lockdowns and restrictions. We consider Jack Halberstam's argument around the 'zombie humanism' of pet ownership in relation to Donna Haraway's ideas on human-animal k…
A Manifesto for Posthuman Creativity Studies
This article advances a manifesto for a posthuman creativity studies that highlights the emergent, collective, and ecological aspects of creativity, offering propositions that problematize any individualist or human-exceptionalist approach to the field. We attend to a range of extra/ordinary affects, encounters, and modalities for expanding creative possibilities in the 21st century. Beginning with a recognition that creativity must be rewilded f…
Autoethnography and the Importance of Working Collectively
Queering Movements, Activist Affect and Collective Autoethnography
This article considers the idea of activist affect, or when things—bodies, ideas, energies, even objects—come together, connected in what Gregg Seigworth and Melissa Gregg term “forces of encounter.” Kathleen Stewart argues that affect offers us broad-ranging ways of exploring “what happens to people, how force hits bodies, how sensibilities circulate and become ... collective.” Activist affect can range from intensities on the skin to the air of…
Handbook of Autoethnography
"The second edition of this seminal text in the field of autoethnography considers the development and establishing of a fast-moving discipline since the publication of the first edition. Seven of the original handbook chapters are revised; the rest are original contributions and exemplars from some of the most established scholars in the field. A substantially revised structure makes the thematic organisation easier to follow. Combining establis…
Massive and Microscopic
This essay uses several of the prompts from the Massive::Microscopic experiment as a jumping off point for considering how affect theory and critical autoethnography offer us a framework for understanding, creating, and acting together in the time of COVID. Through stories of cloud-watching, mindfulness meditation, and other encounters with atmospheres and movements, we connect individual experiences of the pandemic to Buddhist understandings of …
Wayfinding and Critical Autoethnography
The Empty Space and Creative-Relational Inquiry
This essay sketches the possibilities for creative-relational inquiry through the lens of theatre and performance, particularly the writings of Peter Brook and Tim Etchells on “the empty space” and through affect theory and nonrepresentational writing, particularly the work of Kathleen Stewart, Ken Gale, and Jonathan Wyatt
Beautiful radiant things
This essay considers what viewing performance as an affective encounter—an embodied experience of sensations and intensities—might mean for applied theatre. Using auto-theory, which joins personal narrative with theories of affect, new materialism and post-humanism, we write an affective encounter that catches up people and objects in relations of resonance. Specifically, we write how a caravan in visual artist Patricia Piccinini’s work The Coupl…
Introduction
Wayfinding and Critical Autoethnography
Queer Life of Things
In The Queer Life of Things: Performance, Affect, and the More-Than-Human, Anne M. Harris and Stacy Holman Jones offer readers a series of chapters united in their fascination with the animals, plants, and things with whom we share and compose our lives. Harris and Holman Jones pick up and follow bread-crumb trails of new materialist, posthumanist, affect, performance, and feminist theoretics as they explore contemporary life and world-making. Th…
Telling Stories
This essay focuses on intersections of reflexivity as both an orientation to research and a writing practice that brings together the method of autoethnography and the paradigm of queer theory. Taking seriously autoethnography's and queer theory's commitments to uncertain, fluid, and becoming subjectivities, multiple forms of knowledge and representations, and research as an agent of change, we write a series of reflexively queer personal texts. …
Living Bodies of Thought
There is a vital, yet often unrealized relationship between storytelling and critical approaches to autoethnography. Where autoethnography brings the personal, the concrete, and an emphasis on storytelling to our scholarship, it often leaves us wanting for clear and powerful theoretical frameworks for understanding how such stories help us write into or become the change we seek in the world. Critical theory provides us with such frameworks, thou…
(M)othering Loss
This piece explores how telling adoption stories—to and of birth mothers, adoptive mothers, and their children—perform both the failures of language and the pleasures of repeating and rewriting tales of birth and placement, of the fictions of families. I consider how adoption stories spin not only tales of loss and fractured identities but also open-ended narratives of self and parent-child relationships. I use the languages of adoption, feminist…
Kaleidoscope Notes
This work explores the meaning and experience of women's music within organizational and performative contexts. This work is also about the politics and passion of writing ethnography as a collage of field notes, poetry, song, conversation, interviews, theories, performances, and defenses. Join the author at The Club, a small, nonprofit, nonmain stream folk music venue and enter into this conversation with an ethnographer, per former, audience me…
Autoethnography
Autoethnography is a theoretical, methodological, and (primarily) textual approach that seeks to experience, reflect on, and represent through evocation the relationship among self and culture, individual and collective experience, and identity politics and appeals for social justice. In investigating these relationships, autoethnography fuses personal narrative and sociocultural exploration. Autoethnographic inquiry and writing has long been pra…
Living an Autoethnographic Activist Life
This brief article provides an introduction to this special section on autoethnography as an activist activity and way of life
Turning the Kaleidoscope, Re-Visioning an Ethnography
This article is a re-vision that the author began 2 years after writing an ethnography titled Kaleidoscope Notes: Writing Women's Music and Organizational Culture. This ethnography has taken up residence in her mind and heart. She is happy to have it there. However, there have always been questions lurking at edges of this happiness- questions about authorial positioning, questions about what it means to write an "alternative" ethnography. The pu…
Activist Affect
This brief essay considers what new materialist thought and affect theory in particular might bring to activist politics, particularly the need to sustain the energy and power of public assembly in the form of political marches into a movement that persists in and through time. We consider the site of both terrorist and activist acts not only as a public space-or stage-upon which both acts occur, but instead as public body that keeps the movement…
Monsters, desire and the creative queer body
In this essay, we return to the queer potential of the monstrous and extend it to the ‘invisibility’ and unintelligibility of non-binary trans* gender subjectivities and femme sexuality. In a text that moves between performative and expository prose – between two voices who speak to the rage, pride, and pleasure of monstrously queer gender identifications and sexualities – we write the power of being seen but not understood, of passing unnoticed,…
Torch
A torch song is a song about unrequited love. The torch song originated in Tin Pan Alley music publishing houses and flourished on post-World War I vaudeville and speakeasy stages in the performances of Edith Piaf, Libby Holman, Billie Holiday, Lee Wiley, and countless others. But just who is the torch singer? What are her history and her place in history? Might her performance move beyond a blind and narcissistic obsession with doomed love affai…
Feeling Fear, Feeling Queer
This essay considers what we are calling queer terror, an affective condition not limited to LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender) or other minoritarian subjects, and its relationship to fear, hate, and factionalism (or isolationism). That is, queer terror is both terror against queer subjects and a queering of terror culture itself. We ask whether, through the act and its viral media representations, queer terror creates minoritarian pu…
Undoing the Alphabet
This essay is written in and as a queer fugue-a series of themes and variations on grief, on loss and remembering, on the constitutive and dispossessing dance of relationality, and on the possibilities of becoming and forgiving. It is an essay about public mourning, queer relationships, being undone by death and language, and about making a case for recognizing unrecognized and unspeakable grief. It is an essay that recognizes the debts we owe to…
Burnt
This article responds to Phillip Auslander's call for performance studies scholars to engage analyses of popular music performances, particularly those that consider the performers themselves. The author takes Auslander's tripartite scheme for the performer-performance interaction as a starting point for looking at how torch singers and torch singing are heard, understood, fixed, loved, reviled, and dismissed. In contrast to musical performers an…
A creative ecological approach to supporting young people with mental health challenges in schools
Holistic and ecological approaches to mental health support have been identified by many as best-practice approaches for creating and sustaining well-being. Those who experience mental health challenges including, for example, Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD), often struggle to find adequate, sustainable and ongoing care from clinical settings, and recent research shows that additional strategies such as peer support programs, arts approache…
One for My Baby and One More for the Road
This essay considers Billie Holiday's performance of "One for My Baby," as an affective lamentation that both moves and creates movement-into another kind of relation, another kind of loving, another kind of bodily intensity. When Billie sings to the bartender, a proxy for an absent other and lost love, "I'm kind of a poet/And I got a lot of things to say/And when I'm gloomy, you simply gotta listen to me/Till it's all talked away . . . So make i…
Crimes Against Experience
Scott proposes that literary approaches offer us one way to read how identities are discursively constituted and understood as and of experience. She encourages us to read for and write how histories (personal, political, and social) are constructed and constructive. This article focuses on how difference, knowledge production, and witnessing produce identities as 'not something that was always already there simply waiting to be expressed, not so…
Emotional Space
Torch songs are standards-musical forms and formulas that recount the pain and suffering of unrequited love. But torch songs are also sites-interpretive spaces waiting to be filled by a performance. As such, torch singing is at once a product and producer of action-a site for concerted connection, deliberation, and contention. The resistive possibilities of a song of unrequited love are generated in the singing, in how a performance of a standard…
Women, musics, bodies, and texts
This essay grew out of my exploration of gesture as a conceptual rethinking of linguistic constructions of the body. There is, of course, the literal sense of gesture‐physical action that communicates cognitive and tactile knowledge. But there is also the gesture of subjectivity‐a forceful, pleasurable, and excessive experience‐in‐creation. This experience‐in‐creation is dramatically realized in the making of women's music. I use Julia Kristeva's…
Intersectionality, interdisciplinarity and mental health in education
Lost and Found
This essay revisits my earlier work on the intersections of adoption, relationships, performativity, and storytelling. Some years removed from adopting a child, learning about my grandmother's adoption, and writing how relationships are made in the performance of stories, I reconsider the power of texts that tell us into and out of being. Using pluralized voices-differences in form and mode of exchange and address-I write to show how identities a…
Creative Ecologies in Borderline Personality Disorder Research
This article draws on the power of creative methods to call for a more collaborative, ecological approach to awareness, education, and research analysis of Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD). Drawing on affect theory and empirical research using a co-creation methodology, we advocate for the power of peer-directed support provision for those experiencing BPD. Through recognition and advocacy for this emerging area, the article advances the way…
Wandering Fests
Based on a number of PhD workshops called Wandering Feasts, in collaboration between Monash University and Design School Kolding, this article explores academic writing as both a mode and a method of inquiry. The article both points to and performs five creative-relational orientations to alternative academic writing: Performativity in challenging dominant ways of knowing and representing knowledge in the academy; emergence as mindfully holding o…
An Invitation to Opening
An Invitation to Opening." Text and Performance Quarterly, 34(4), pp. 372–373 I would like to thank Heidi Rose and Chris McRae for their kind and helpful assistance in creating the Coming to Performance Studies special sections
Singing It the Way She Hears It
This introduction situates this special issue on Music and Performance Studies, providing a framework for the analysis of music through the lens of performance studies and offering a preview of the articles in the collection
Turning the Kaleidoscope, Re-Visioning an Ethnography
This article is a re-vision that the author began 2 years after writing an ethnography titled Kaleidoscope Notes: Writing Women's Music and Organizational Culture. This ethnography has taken up residence in her mind and heart. She is happy to have it there. However, there have always been questions lurking at edges of this happiness- questions about authorial positioning, questions about what it means to write an "alternative" ethnography. The pu…
Kaleidoscope Notes
This work explores the meaning and experience of women's music within organizational and performative contexts. This work is also about the politics and passion of writing ethnography as a collage of field notes, poetry, song, conversation, interviews, theories, performances, and defenses. Join the author at The Club, a small, nonprofit, nonmain stream folk music venue and enter into this conversation with an ethnographer, per former, audience me…
Self-esteem differences as a function of race and weight preoccupation
Women, musics, bodies, and texts
This essay grew out of my exploration of gesture as a conceptual rethinking of linguistic constructions of the body. There is, of course, the literal sense of gesture‐physical action that communicates cognitive and tactile knowledge. But there is also the gesture of subjectivity‐a forceful, pleasurable, and excessive experience‐in‐creation. This experience‐in‐creation is dramatically realized in the making of women's music. I use Julia Kristeva's…
Torch
A torch song is a song about unrequited love. The torch song originated in Tin Pan Alley music publishing houses and flourished on post-World War I vaudeville and speakeasy stages in the performances of Edith Piaf, Libby Holman, Billie Holiday, Lee Wiley, and countless others. But just who is the torch singer? What are her history and her place in history? Might her performance move beyond a blind and narcissistic obsession with doomed love affai…
Emotional Space
Torch songs are standards-musical forms and formulas that recount the pain and suffering of unrequited love. But torch songs are also sites-interpretive spaces waiting to be filled by a performance. As such, torch singing is at once a product and producer of action-a site for concerted connection, deliberation, and contention. The resistive possibilities of a song of unrequited love are generated in the singing, in how a performance of a standard…
(M)othering Loss
This piece explores how telling adoption stories—to and of birth mothers, adoptive mothers, and their children—perform both the failures of language and the pleasures of repeating and rewriting tales of birth and placement, of the fictions of families. I consider how adoption stories spin not only tales of loss and fractured identities but also open-ended narratives of self and parent-child relationships. I use the languages of adoption, feminist…
What Must Be Possible
I can't get a few phrases out of my head: moving forward, searching. ... I just need to write something, can't sleep. What are you writing about? You, me, ... mothers, you know. (Rose 291) It's Friday
Autoethnography
Autoethnography is a theoretical, methodological, and (primarily) textual approach that seeks to experience, reflect on, and represent through evocation the relationship among self and culture, individual and collective experience, and identity politics and appeals for social justice. In investigating these relationships, autoethnography fuses personal narrative and sociocultural exploration. Autoethnographic inquiry and writing has long been pra…
Crimes Against Experience
Scott proposes that literary approaches offer us one way to read how identities are discursively constituted and understood as and of experience. She encourages us to read for and write how histories (personal, political, and social) are constructed and constructive. This article focuses on how difference, knowledge production, and witnessing produce identities as 'not something that was always already there simply waiting to be expressed, not so…
Burnt
This article responds to Phillip Auslander's call for performance studies scholars to engage analyses of popular music performances, particularly those that consider the performers themselves. The author takes Auslander's tripartite scheme for the performer-performance interaction as a starting point for looking at how torch singers and torch singing are heard, understood, fixed, loved, reviled, and dismissed. In contrast to musical performers an…
Singing It the Way She Hears It
This introduction situates this special issue on Music and Performance Studies, providing a framework for the analysis of music through the lens of performance studies and offering a preview of the articles in the collection
Lost and Found
This essay revisits my earlier work on the intersections of adoption, relationships, performativity, and storytelling. Some years removed from adopting a child, learning about my grandmother's adoption, and writing how relationships are made in the performance of stories, I reconsider the power of texts that tell us into and out of being. Using pluralized voices-differences in form and mode of exchange and address-I write to show how identities a…
Telling Stories
This essay focuses on intersections of reflexivity as both an orientation to research and a writing practice that brings together the method of autoethnography and the paradigm of queer theory. Taking seriously autoethnography's and queer theory's commitments to uncertain, fluid, and becoming subjectivities, multiple forms of knowledge and representations, and research as an agent of change, we write a series of reflexively queer personal texts. …
An Opening to Dream
Review Article| March 01 2014 An Opening to Dream Stacy Holman Jones Stacy Holman Jones Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Departures in Critical Qualitative Research (2014) 3 (1): 1–5. https://doi.org/10.1525/dcqr.2014.3.1.1 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Ico…
Thresholds of the Unforeseen
Research Article| June 01 2014 Thresholds of the Unforeseen Stacy Holman Jones Stacy Holman Jones Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Departures in Critical Qualitative Research (2014) 3 (2): 89–92. https://doi.org/10.1525/dcqr.2014.3.2.89 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permiss…
The Performance Space
Additional informationNotes on contributorsStacy L. Holman Jones Stacy L. Holman Jones is Associate Professor in the Department of Communication Studies and co-director of the CSUN Performance Ensemble at California State University, Northridge
Coming to Performance Studies
Additional informationNotes on contributorsStacy L. Holman JonesStacy L. Holman Jones is Associate Professor in the Department of Communication Studies and co-director of the CSUN Performance Ensemble at California State University, Northridge
Coming to Performance Studies
I” and “You”
Research Article| December 01 2014 “I” and “You”: Seeking Bodies, Spirits, Selves, and Recognition Stacy Holman Jones Stacy Holman Jones Stacy Holman Jones is Professor in the Department of Communication Studies, Associate Chair, Graduate Coordinator, and Co-Director of the Performance Ensemble at California State University, Northridge. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Correspondence to: Stacy Holman Jone…
The Ethics, Aesthetics, and Politics of Creativity in Research
Research Article| September 01 2014 The Ethics, Aesthetics, and Politics of Creativity in Research Anne Harris, Anne Harris Anne Harris is Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Education at Monash University, and an interdisciplinary researcher at the intersection of cultural, sexual, and gender diversities, including the ways in which creativity, the arts, and digital media can be used for educational and social change. She is an Australian Research…
An Invitation to Opening
An Invitation to Opening." Text and Performance Quarterly, 34(4), pp. 372–373 I would like to thank Heidi Rose and Chris McRae for their kind and helpful assistance in creating the Coming to Performance Studies special sections
Coming to Performance Studies
Exploring ideas of home as a location of and for thought, action, and political praxis, this issue's Performance Space contains both a Performance in Review and the second installment of Coming to
Undoing the Alphabet
This essay is written in and as a queer fugue-a series of themes and variations on grief, on loss and remembering, on the constitutive and dispossessing dance of relationality, and on the possibilities of becoming and forgiving. It is an essay about public mourning, queer relationships, being undone by death and language, and about making a case for recognizing unrecognized and unspeakable grief. It is an essay that recognizes the debts we owe to…
The Dreamer, the Dreaming, the Dream
In “Seeing Gender,” anarchist novelist, poet, and playwright Kathy Acker tells us that when she was a child, the only thing she wanted to be was a pirate.1 Pirates could send men down the plank, see the sights on the high seas, and swing from the yardarms. Pirates could be who they wanted to be. Acker tells us that pirates could be and do these things because pirates lived in books and, just as importantly, pirates were not girls wearing girdles …
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