JILL LANE is Assistant Professor in the Department of Comparative Studies at the Ohio State University, where she teaches courses on cultural production in relation to the histories of colonialism, neocolonialism, and contemporary neoliberalism. Her research focuses on transnational perspectives on performance in the Americas; her current book project is Blackface Cuba: racial impersonation, national desire, and anticolonial performance, 1840-1898. She is co-editor with Peggy Phelan of The Ends of Performance (New York University Press, 1998). She earned her Ph.D. in Performance Studies at NYU in 2000.
 
 

JILL MEREDITH LANE
Assistant Professor
Comparative Studies in the Humanities
The Ohio State University
308 Dulles Hall, 230 West 17th Avenue
Columbus, OH 43210 USA
614.688.0121, lane.192@osu.edu

EMPLOYMENT

Assistant Professor, Comparative Studies in the Humanities, The Ohio State University. Fall 2000-present. Courses:
Performance and Politics: Staging Nations. Graduate seminar, taught in conjunction with the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics in the Americas, Fall 2001.
Globalization and Culture, Senior capstone course.
Introduction the Humanities, ("Representations"), Freshman Honors Seminar.
Transnationalism and culture in the Americas. Undergraduate gateway course.
Faculty, Center for Folklore Studies, OSU.

Adjunct Instructor, Department of Drama, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University, Fall 1997-Spring 2000. Courses:
Latin American Theatre, Spring 1999, Spring 2000. New Course.
Introduction to Theatre Studies, Spring 1999.
Modern Irish Drama, Fall 1997. New course.

EDUCATION

Ph.D., New York University, Performance Studies. May 2000.
Dissertation: Anticolonial Blackface: The Teatro Bufo and the Arts of Racial Impersonation, Cuba 1840-1895. Committee: José Muñoz (director), Diana Taylor, Peggy Phelan, Joseph Roach, Ada Ferrer.
Ph.D. Coursework, University of California, Santa Barbara, Dramatic Arts, 1992-93.
M.A., Brown University, Theatre Arts, May 1991.
MA Thesis: Reclaiming the Catalan Stage: Albert Boadella and Els Joglars. Spencer Golub (director).
B.A., Brown University, Comparative Literature (Spanish, Italian, and English literature), Dec. 1989. Magna Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa.

PUBLICATIONS

Books:
In progress: Blackface Cuba: racial impersonation, national desire, and anticolonial performance, 1840-1898.

Co-editor, The Ends of Performance, with Peggy Phelan. New York: New York University Press, 1998.

Articles:
"Reverend Billy: protest, preaching, postindustrial flânerie" forthcoming from TDR: The Journal of Performance Studies.
"Blackface Nationalism, Havana, 1868" requested for inclusion in Diaspora, Performance, and the Politics of Home, ed. Loren Kruger, forthcoming 2002.
"Cubans on the Moon, and other imagined communities." In Fabulous and Funny: Comedy, Fantasy and Colonialism, ed. Graeme Harper, forthcoming, Continuum (UK), 2001.
"Blackface Nationalism, Cuba 1840-1868," Theatre Journal 50 (1998) 21-38. Won the 1999 Errol Hill Award from the American Society of Theatre Research (ASTR) for best writing in African American theatre.
"On Colonial Forgetting: The Conquest of New Mexico and its Historia" in The Ends of Performance, New York: NYU Press, 1998: 52-69.
"Albert Boadella and the Comedy of Catalan Cultural Politics," Journal of Dramatic Theory & Criticism, XI:I (Fall 1996): 81-100.

Editor, special issue, "10th Anniversary Issue" Women & Performance: A Journal of Feminist Theory Vol. 7:1 (Winter) 1994.

PRESENTATIONS

Invited lectures:
(planned) "Framing performance in Latin America" Wexner Center Gallery talk, Columbus, Ohio, in association with the exhibit, "Hélio Oiticica: Quasi-cinemas," 9 November 2001.
"Labor, alien and otherwise." On the panel, "Praxis: Traction and Historicization," at the Women and Theatre Conference ("Practically Visionary: Re-Placing Women and Theater"), 30 July-1 August 2000.
"Cuban Rhythm, Transracial Bodies," invited talk for the symposium, "Doing Memory: Performing Legacies of Imperialism," Cornell University, March 30-April 1, 2000.

Paper presentations:
(accepted) "Digital Zapatistas: undoing global influence with Ricardo Dominguez and the Electronic Disturbance Theatre," American Theatre and Drama Society panel, Modern Language Association Convention, 27-30 December 2001, New Orleans, LA.
(accepted) "Seduction, race, and national rhythm: the Cuban danzón," Congress on Research in Dance (CORD) annual conference, "Transmigratory Moves: Dance in Global Circulation," New York City, 26-28 October 2001.
"On Fraternidad: Cuban black/face publics, 1890-94," Hemispheric Institute seminar, "Performance and Politics in the Americas: Memory, Atrocity and Resistance," 14-23 June 2001, Monterrey, Mexico.
"Reverend Billy: Mimesis and the dialectics of (not) shopping," on the panel "Performance contra Globalization," (panel organizer/moderator), 7th annual Performance Studies international conference, Mainz, Germany, 28 March-1 April, 2001.
"Rhythm, race, and the national secret," Hemispheric Institute conference, "Performance and Politics in the Americas," Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 7-9 July 2000.
"Staging Colonial 'Encounter,'" on the panel "Performance and Conquest in the Americas" (panel organizer/moderator), Performance Studies international 2000, Tempe, Arizona, March 9-12, 2000.
"Cubans on the Moon and other fantastic cartographies," American Society for Theatre Research annual convention, "Geographies of Performance," Minneapolis, November 11-13, 1999.
Welcome address, "Theatres of Death," Fourth Annual Performance Studies Conference, Graduate Center of the City of New York, New York City, 12 & 13 March 1998.
"Racial Impersonation and Cuba's Anticolonial Wars" on the panel "Racial Identity," The First CRI (Cuban Research Institute) Conference on Cuban and Cuban-American Studies, Florida International University, 9-11 October 1997.
"Fictions of a Black(face) Ethnographer: Cuba's Creto Gangá" on the panel "Between Performance and Anthropology" at the "Shaping Anthropologies" Conference, New School for Social Research, New York City, 21& 22 February 1997.
"Blackface and the Politics of Mestizaje: the Cuban Teatro Bufo" on the panel "The Counterfeit Currency of Blackface Minstrelsy," Association of Theatre in Higher Education, New York City, 7-10 August 1996.
"Blackface Nationalism, Havana 1868" on the panel "Africa and the Black Atlantic," 2nd Annual Performance Studies Conference, Northwestern University, March 1996.
"Els Joglars: Political Puppets and Spain's Transition Years (1970-1982)" Interdisciplinary Humanities Center Junior Fellows Conference, UCSB, September 1992.

SERVICE
Advisory Board, The Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics, New York University/Ford Foundation. May 2000-present.
Advisory Board, Women & Performance: A Journal of Feminist Theory. September 1997-present.
Performance Studies international, Conference Advisory Committee, April 2001-present.
Performance Studies international, Chair, non-conference activities committee, April 1997-1998; committee member, 1999-2001.
Editorial Board Member, Women & Performance: A Journal of Feminist Theory. January 1994-September 1997
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