Rebecca Rossen
Assistant Professor — Ph.D.(2006), Northwestern University
Contact
- E-mail: r-rossen@austin.utexas.edu
- Phone: 512.232.7153
- Office: WIN 2.115
- Campus Mail Code: D3900
Biography
Biography
Rebecca Rossen (Ph.D., Northwestern University, 2006) is a dance historian and performance scholar who teaches in the Performance as Public Practice Program in the Department of Theatre and Dance, and is a faculty affiliate in the Center for Women’s and Gender Studies, the American Studies Department, and the Schusterman Center for Jewish Studies. Her current research, which focuses on Jewish identity in American modern and postmodern dance, also addresses the relationship between ethnicity, gender, and embodiment. Before beginning her academic life, Dr. Rossen was a dancer and choreographer whose numerous choreographic works have been presented nationally and internationally.
Courses Taught
In addition to dance history, Dr. Rossen teaches courses on ethnicity, gender, and sexuality in physical performance.
WGS 345 Gender and Sexuality in Physical Performance
WGS 393 Choreographing Gender, Dancing Desire
Select Publications
Dancing Jewish: Jewish Identity in American Modern and Postmodern Dance (book in progress, under contract with Oxford University Press).
“Dancing Jews and Jewesses: Jewishness, Ethnicity, and Exoticism in American Dance," in The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Ethnicity (London and New York: Oxford University Press, 2012).
“Uneasy Duets: Contemporary American Dances about Israel and the Mideast Crisis” (TDR: The Drama Review, Fall 2011)
“Chassidic Drag: Jewishness, Cross-Dressing, and Ethnic Ambiguity in the Modern Dances of Pauline Koner and Hadassah” (Feminist Studies, Summer 2011)
“Teaching History: Ruth St. Denis & Ted Shawn,” Dance Teacher Magazine 29:10 (October 2007): 120–24.
“Teaching History: Mary Wigman,” in Dance Teacher Magazine 29: 4 (April 2007): 74–79.
“The Jewish Man and His Dancing Shtick: Stock Characterization and Masculinity in Postmodern Dance,” in “You Should See Yourself!”: Jewish Identity and Postmodern American Culture (Rutgers University Press 2006).
“Moving Through the Interspace: Emio Greco/PC’s Orfeo ed Euridice,” Opera Quarterly 22: 1 (Winter 2006): 144–47.
