Books

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Liveness: Performance in a Mediatized Culture, Second Edition. Abingdon, New York: Routledge, 2008.

Theory for Performance Studies: A Student's Guide. Abingdon, New York: Routledge, 2007.
Adapted from Timothy K. Beal and William E. Deal, Theory for Religious Studies (Routledge, 2004).

Performing Glam Rock: Gender and Theatricality in Popular Music. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2006.

Liveness: Performance in a Mediatized Culture. London, New York: Routledge, 1999.

From Acting to Performance: Essays in Modernism and PostModernism. London, New York: Routledge, 1997.

Presence and Resistance: Postmodernism and Cultural Politics in Contemporary American Performance. Theatre: Theory/Text/Performance. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1992.

The New York School Poets as Playwrights: O'Hara, Ashbery, Koch, Schuyler and the Visual Arts. Literature and the Visual Arts: New Foundations, Vol. 3. New York: Peter Lang, 1989.

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Edited Volumes

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Bodies in Commotion: Performance and Disability (co-edited with Carrie Sandahl). Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2005.

Performance: Critical Concepts in Literary and Cultural Studies. Four volumes. London: Routledge, 2003.

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Essays in Performance

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"AnimalCam: Ocularcentrism and Non-Human Performance," in A Performance Cosmology, ed. Judie Christie, Richard Gough, and Daniel Watt. London, New York: Routledge, 2006.

"The Performativity of Performance Art Documentation," Performing Arts Journal, 84, September 2006.

"At the Listening Post, or, Do Machines Perform?" International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media, Vol. 1, No. 1, 2005.

"Live from Cyberspace, or, I was sitting at my computer this guy appeared he thought I was a bot," Performing Arts Journal, January 2002.

"Liveness, Mediatization, and Intermedial Performance," Degrés: Revue de synthèse à orientation sémiologique [Belgium], No. 101, Spring 2000.

"Tee Vee's Playhouse: Live Performance in a Mediatized Culture," Aura: Film Studies Journal [Sweden], Vol. 6, No. 1, 2000.

"Against Ontology: Making Distinctions between the Live and the Mediatized," Performance Research, Autumn 1997

"Legally Live: Performance In/Of the Law," TDR: The Journal of Performance Studies Summer 1997.

"Orlan's Theatre of Operations," Theatre Forum, Spring 1995.

"'Brought to You by Fem-Rage': Stand-up Comedy and the Politics of Gender," Acting Out: Feminist Performances, ed. Lynda Hart and Peggy Phelan. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1993.

"Intellectual Property Meets the Cyborg: Performance and the Cultural Politics of Technology," Performing Arts Journal, January 1992.

"Going with the Flow: Performance Art and Mass Culture," TDR: The Journal of Performance Studies, January 1992.

"Toward a Concept of the Political in Postmodern Theatre," Theatre Journal, March 1987.

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Essays in Music/Performance

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"Music as Performance: Living in the Immaterial World," Theatre Survey, Vol. 47, No. 2, Fall 2006.

"Musical Personae," TDR: The Journal of Performance Studies, Vol. 50, No. 1, Spring 2006.

"I Wanna Be Your Man: Suzi Quatro's Musical Androgyny," Popular Music, Vo. 23, No. 1, 2004.

"Good Old Rock and Roll: Performing the 1950s in the 1970s," Journal of Popular Music Studies, Vol. 15, No. 2, 2003.

"Performance Analysis and Popular Music: A Manifesto," Contemporary Theatre Review, Vol. 14, No. 1, 2004.

"Looking at Records," TDR: The Journal of Performance Studies, Vol. 45, No. 1, Spring 2001.

"Fluxus Art-Amusement: The Music of the Future?" [revised and expanded version], Contours of the Theatrical Avant-Garde: Performance and Textuality, ed. James Harding. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2000.

"Seeing Is Believing: Live Performance and the Discourse of Authenticity in Rock Culture," Literature and Psychology: a journal of psychoanalytic and cultural criticism, Vol. 44, No. 4, 1998.

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Art Writing

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"Matt Bryans: Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, GA" ArtForum, March 2007.

"Kalup Linzy: Romo Gallery, Atlanta, GA" ArtForum, October 2006.

"Joe Sola: Atlanta College of Art Gallery, Atlanta, GA" ArtForum, April 2006.

"David Haines and Joyce Hinterding: ArtSpace, Sydney, Australia" ArtForum, October 2005.

"Claire Corey: Solomon Projects, Atlanta, GA" ArtForum, March 2005.

"John Largaespada: Atlanta College of Art Gallery" ArtForum, January 2005.

"Chris Vereen: Atlanta Contemporary Art Center" ArtForum, November 2004.

"Hussein Chalayan: Istanbul Museum of Contemporary Art, Istanbul, Turkey" ArtForum, November 2004.

"The Biennale and its Discontents" Performing Arts Journal, Vol. 76, 2004.

"Mixing the Colors: iona rozeal brown's recent work looks at Japan's appropriation of hip hop" Art Papers, May/June 2004.

"Anne Truitt: Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University, Atlanta, GA" ArtForum, May 2004.

"Samuel Mockbee and the rural studio; Birmingham Museum of Art - Birmingham, Al" ArtForum, January 2004.

"Behind the Scenes: Gregor Schneider's Totes Haus ur" Performing Arts Journal, Vol. 75, 2003.

"Melik Ohanian: Atlanta College of Art Gallery - Atlanta" ArtForum, May 2003.

"Darren Murray - Reviews Dublin" ArtForum, December 2002.

"'Il Respiro Nacosto Delle Cose': Studio La Citta, Verona Italy" ArtForum, April 2002.

"Bertozzi & Casoni: Cardi & Co - Milan" ArtForum, March 2002.

"Jim Waters: Kiang Gallery - Atlanta" ArtForum, January 2002.

"Beatriz Milhazes: Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, AL" ArtForum, November 2001.

"Gretchen Hupfel" ArtForum, April 2001.

"Jessica Diamond - Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, AL" ArtForum, February 2001.

"Cathy De Monchaux" ArtForum, November 2000.

"Kojo Griffin" ArtForum, September 2000.

"Laurie Anderson - Spoleto Festival USA" ArtForum, October 1999.

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Interviews with Philip Auslander

Radio Interview on The Beat, KUOW, Seattle, 1 November 2005 (audio).

Radio Interview on Sunday Morning, The Australian Broadcasting Corporation, 29 May 2005 (audio).

""After Liveness: An E-Interview," Performance Paradigm: A Journal of Performance & Contemporary Culture, No. 1, March 2005.

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Philip Auslander Interviews Willem Dafoe

"Task and Vision: Willem Dafoe in L.S.D." in Acting (Re)Considered, ed. Philip B. Zarrilli. London, New York: Routledge, 1995.

"Task and Vision Revisited: Two Conversations with Willem Dafoe (1984/2002)" in The Wooster Group and Its Traditions ed. Johan Callens. Bern: Peter Lang/Presses Interuniversitaires Européennes, 2004.

Video Clip from 2002 Interview

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