Janelle is Associate Dean for Graduate Studies as well as
Professor of Drama at UCI. She is also President of the
International
Federation for Theatre Research. She is Series Editor,
together with Brian Singleton of Trinity College Dublin,
of Studies in International Performance, a book
series for Palgrave/Macmillan. Among her current research
projects is the multicampus research group on International
Performance and Culture involving six UC campuses, of which
she is Principal Investigator. For the past ten years, she
has been a core faculty member of the International Center
for Advanced Theatre Research at the University of Helsinki.
Professor
Reinelt teaches one Ph.D. seminar each year. Since coming
to UCI in 2001, she has taught “Post-Marxist British
Theory and Theatre,” “Theatricality and Performativity,”
and “The Promise of Documentary.” In 2006, she
will teach a seminar on “The Politics of Contemporary
British Theatre,” one of her specialties.
In
2003, she was the second senior scholar invited to contribute
an “Auto-Archive” (an intellectual autobiography)
to Theatre Journal, in a continuing series highlighting
the leading scholars in the field.
Sample
Publications
- Gender
in Cultural Performances ,ed. Renate Gahn. Wissenchaftlicher
Verlag Berlin, 2006.
(A publication resulting from my guest professorship in
gender studies at University of Mainz in 2002)
-
The Cambridge Companion to Modern British Women Playwrights,
co-editor Elaine Aston, Cambridge University Press, 2000.
-
Crucibles of Crisis: Social Change and Performance,
University of Michigan Press, 1996
- “Theatre
and Politics: Encountering Badiou,” Performance
Research special issue on Civility, Vol. 9, No. 4,
2004, 87-94.
- “Politics,
Playwriting, Postmodernism: An Interview with David Edgar,”
Contemporary Theatre Review, Vol. 14, No. 4,
2004, 42-53.
- “Principles
and Pragmatics in Political Theatre: David Edgar’s
Continental Divide,” with Gerald Hewitt,
Theatre Forum 25 (summer/fall), 2004, 3-14.
- “The
Prisoner’s Dilemma: Game Theory, Conflict Resolution,
and the New Europe,” with Gerald Hewitt, Contemporary
Theatre Review, Vol. 13, No.2, 2003, 41-55.
- “Public
Discourse as Performance: The Art of Anna Deavere Smith,”
trans. Into Polish as “Publiczny Dyakura w Formie
Scenicznej,” Didaskalia 2003/53, 110-114.
- “The
Politics of Discourse: Performativity Meets Theatricality,”
Substance, special issue on Theatricality, Edited
by Josette Féral, Vol 31, Nos 2 & 3, 2002,
201-215
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