Elise Morrison, Ph.D.
719 Lazy Lane, Bryan TX 77802 · emorrison@tamu.edu · 917-699-5751
EDUCATION
2011 Ph.D. in Theatre Arts and Performance Studies
Brown University
2000 B.A. in Theatre Arts, music, with honors
University of Oregon
PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS
2016-current Assistant Professor of Performance and Technology
Department of Performance Studies
Texas A&M University
2015-16 Director of Undergraduate Studies and Lecturer in Theater Studies
Yale University
2012-2015 Mellon Postdoctoral Associate in Interdisciplinary Performance Studies
Lecturer in Theater Studies and English
Yale University
2009-2012 Associate Director for Speaking Instructio
Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning
Preceptor in Expository Writing
Harvard University
PUBLICATIONS
Books
2016 Discipline and Desire: Surveillance Technologies in Performance. University of Michigan Press.
Journal Articles
2015 “Editorial Introduction: Surveillance society needs performance studies and arts practice.” International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media, 11.2.
2014 “Ambushed by Empathy: George Brant’s Grounded.” TDR/ The Drama Review, Winter 2014, Vol.58, No. 4 (T224): 163-169.
2013 “User-unfriendly: Surveillance Art as Participatory Performance.” Theater Magazine (Duke University Press) 43:3: 5-22.
2011 “Citizen Arrest: Surveillance Art and the Passerby.” International Journal of Performing Arts and Digital Media, 7.2 (Fall 2011): 239-257.
2007 “Staging the Streets: Mutability in a Military State.” Critical Planning: Special issue on Spatial Justice (Journal of UCLA Dept of Urban Planning), 14: 175-191.
Book Chapters
2012 “Witness Protection: Surveillance Technologies in Theatrical Productions.” Bastard or Playmate? Adapting Theatre, Mutating Media and Contemporary Performing Arts. “Theater Topics” series, ed. R. Vanderbeeken, B. De Backere, and C. Stalpaert, University of Amsterdam Press (2012): 122-143.
Edited Volumes
2015 Special Issue: “Surveillance Technologies in Performance.” International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media, 11.2
2012 Special Issue: “Digital Performance and Pedagogy.” International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media, 7.2, co-edited with Jennifer Parker-Starbuck.
Book Reviews
2016 Book Review. Performance and Media: Taxonomies for a changing field by Sarah Bay-Cheng, Jennifer Parker Starbuck, and David Saltz. TDR, Fall 2016 (forthcoming)
2012 Book Review: Cyborg Theatre: Corporeal/technological Intersections in Multimedia Performance by Jennifer Parker Starbuck. Contemporary Theatre Review. 22(3): 428-430.
2011 Book Review. Adrian Piper: Race, Gender, and Embodiment by John Parish Bowles, and Enacting Others: Politics of Identity in Eleanor Antin Nikki S. Lee, Adrian Piper, and Anna Deavere Smith by Cherise Smith. Theatre Annual, 64.
ACADEMIC AWARDS
2012, 2011 Certificate of Teaching excellence
Harvard University
2009-2010 Brown-Wheaton Faculty Teaching Fellowship
Brown University
2008-2009 Joukowsky Family Foundation Dissertation Research Gran
Brown University
2006-2007 Pembroke Interdisciplinary Seminar Fellowship
Brown University
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
2016 “‘Just wait until someone tries to cover those up!’ Creating Critical (Feminist) Spect-actors of Surveillance.” Keynote Presentation. Spectatorship in an Age of Surveillance: A Symposium at Bard College. September 22-23. Annandale-on-Hudson, NY.
2016 “Breaking the Fourth Wall of Biometric Surveillance: Brechtian Aesthetics in Surveillance Arts Activism.” Modern Language Association. January 7-10. Austin, TX.
2015 “Pass the Remote: Theatrical Responses to Digital Warfare.” Plenary Presentation. American Society for Theatre Research. November 4-8. Portland, OR.
2014 “Love’s Labours Leaked: Surveillance, Data, and the New Digital Dramaturgy.” In “Technology Performs” Working Group. American Society for Theatre Research. November 20-23. Baltimore, MD.
2013 “Fight or Flight: Consumerist Amnesia and Civilian Drone Art.” Performance Studies International. June 26-30. Palo Alto, CA.
2012 “From Street to School to Stage: A user-based taxonomy for multimedia performance practices.” In “Digital Histories and Taxonomic Shifts” Working Group. American Society for Theatre Research. November 1-4. Nashville, TN.
2011 “Crossing the Digital Divide: Arts-Activism and the Alienated Labor of Surveillance,” in “Economies of Mediated Performance” Working Group, at American Society for Theatre Research. November 17-20. Montreal, Canada.
2011 “Janet Cardiff and Surveillance Drag.” Association for Theatre in Higher Education. August 11-14. Chicago, IL.
2010 “Dances With Cameras: (Re)Choreographing the Surveillant Body.” Association for Theatre in Higher Education. August 3-6.
Los Angeles, CA.
2010 “Performing Citizen Arrests: Surveillance, Performance, and the Passerby.” Performance Studies international. June 9-13.
Toronto, Canada.
2009 “Trojan Horses: Surveillance Art as Public Intervention.” Performance Studies international. June 24-28. Zagreb, Croatia.
2009 “Witness Protection: Surveillance Technologies in Theatrical Performance.” Festival Of Original Theatre Conference. January. Toronto, Canada.
2007 “Camera Letters: Surveillance Art in Public Space.” Association for Theatre in Higher Education. August. New Orleans, LA.
2006 “Bandaged Space: Staging the Absent Body in Nuclear Warfare.” Association for Theatre in Higher Education. August.
Chicago, IL.
2006 “Uzbekistan 2005: Ambivalent Resistance and National Identity in a Military State.” Performance Studies International. June
14-18. London, UK.
2006 “Staging the Streets: Mutable Space in a Military State.” Space as a Category of Analysis: Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference, Brown University. April 7-8. Providence, RI.
PROFESSIONAL WORKSHOPS
2015 “Theater of the Classroom.” Conference on Teaching Excellence in Higher Education, University College Roosevelt.
June 22-26. Middelburg, The Netherlands.
2013 “Vocal and Physical Performance for Teachers.” Conference on Teaching Excellence in Higher Education, University College Roosevelt. June 10-14. Middelburg, The Netherlands.
CAMPUS TALKS/ WORKSHOPS
2015 “Empathy and Accountability: Theatrical Responses to Digital Warfare.” Performance Studies Working Group, Yale University. October 27. New Haven, CT.
2015 “Principles of Vocal and Physical Performance.” School of Management, Yale University. January 22, April 2. New Haven, CT.
2014 “Through the Looking Glass: Performing Gender in Surveillance Art.” Performance Studies Working Group, Yale University. February 25. New Haven, CT.
2013 “Theater of the Classroom.” Yale University Teaching and Learning Center. January 30-February 6. New Haven, CT.
2013 “Public Speaking for Librarians.” Sterling Library, Yale University. April 11. New Haven, CT.
2012 “Performing Citizen Arrest: Surveillance Art and the Passerby.” Performance Studies Working Group, Yale University. September 11. New Haven, CT.
2010 “Through the Looking Glass: Surveillance, Performance, and Culture.” Faculty Lunch Presentation Series, Wheaton College. April 6. Norton, MA.
2009 “Persuasive Communication and Leadership” Leadership Symposium, Brown University. October 7. Providence, RI.
2008 “Persuasive Communication and Environmental Leadership.” Environmental Leadership Institute, Brown University. August 2. Providence, RI.
2006-2009 “Gender, Communication, and Leadership Workshop.” Women and Leadership Institute, Brown University. July (Summer Session). Providence, RI.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Yale University
Feminist Theater and Performance (Fall 2015, Spring 2015)
Digital Media in Performance (Fall 2015, Spring 2013, Fall 2014)
Senior Production Seminar (Fall 2015)
Public Speaking Practicum (Fall 2014, Spring 2016)
Surveillance in Art and Life (Fall 2012)
Senior Thesis Independent Study in Computing and the Arts (Spring 2014)
Harvard University
Public Speaking Practicum (Spring 2011, Fall 2011, Spring 2012)
Multimodal Communication (Spring 2011, Fall 2011, Spring 2012)
Classroom of the Future (Spring 2011)
Theater of the Classroom (Fall 2011, Spring 2012)
Surveillance Performance and Culture (Fall 2010)
Senior Thesis Independent Study in Narrative in Rhetoric and Performance (Spring 2012)
Wheaton College
Intermediate Acting (Spring 2010)
Brown University
Script Analysis (Summer 2013)
Surveillance Performance and Culture (Fall 2009)
Theatre History for MFA Actors (Spring 2008)
Persuasive Communication (Summer 2007, 2008, 2010)
Development of Twentieth Century Theatre in the West – Teaching Assistant (Fall 2005)
Histories of World Theatre: 1500-1850 – Teaching Assistant (Spring 2006)
Perishable Theatre, Providence, RI
Introduction to Acting (Spring 2010, Fall 2010, Spring 2011, Fall 2011)
Intermediate Scene Study (Spring 2010, Fall 2010, Spring 2011, Fall 2011)
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
Associate Editor, International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media, Routledge. (2009 – present)
Convener, Performance Studies Working Group, Yale University. (2012 – 2016)
Secretary, Performance Studies Focus Group, Association for Theatre in Higher Education. (2009-2011)
UNIVERSITY SERVICE
Curriculum Committee, Performance Studies. Texas A&M University. 2016-2017.
Director of Undergraduate Studies, Theater Studies. Yale University. 2015-2016.
Standing Committee on Computing and the Arts, Yale University. 2015-2016.
PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS
American Society for Theatre Research
Association for Theatre in Higher Education
College Art Association
Performance Studies international
DEVISED PERFORMANCE WORK**
Zoologic April 2015; First Works Festival, Providence, RI.
(with Jamie Jewett, Luke DuBois, and LostWax Dance Theater)
Through the Looking Glass: A Surveillance Cabaret
October 2011; Sleeping Weazel Arts Collective, Boston, MA.
April 2012, Under Pressure Performance Studies Conference, Brown University.
LULU OSX April 2011; Resident Artist Showcase, Perishable Theatre, Providence, RI.
Smoke and Mirrors: A Mixed Media Cabaret
Sept 2008 – May 2010; bi-monthly graduate student cabaret at Brown University.
Jingle Belles and a Few Balls
December 2009, 2010, 2011; Holiday Burlesque Show, Perishable Theater, Providence, RI.
Mirror Stage June 2008, RISD, Providence, RI.
(with Michelle Carriger and Molly Flynn)
Cabaret Murderess September 2007, Brown University, Providence, RI.
(with Michelle Carriger and Molly Flynn)
Camera Letters: Through the Looking Glass
October 2006, New York, NY
Neo-Futurist Cabaret March 2002, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Louisville, KY
(with Greg Allen and ATL Acting Apprentice company)
**Full Theater Resume available by request
Professional References Available by request
