Nadine George-Graves

Professor of Theater and Dance at the University of California, San Diego

Nadine George-Graves is an academic who works at the intersection of African American studies, gender studies, and dance and theater history.^[1] She holds the Naomi Willie Pollard Endowed Chair at Northwestern University with appointments in the Department of Performance Studies and Department of Theatre .^[2] She is also the executive co-editor of Dance Research Journal.^[3] She has a PhD in Theater and Drama from Northwestern University, and a BA in Philosophy and Theater Studies from Yale University.^[4]^[5]

Career

George-Graves formerly served as a professor of Theater and Dance, vice chair of the Department of Theater and Dance, and Acting Associate Dean for Arts and Humanities at the University of California, San Diego. She was also the previous chair of the Department of Dance and a professor of Theatre at The Ohio State University.

George-Graves is also the past president of the Congress on Research in Dance.^[6]^[7] She also served on the executive boards of the Lincoln Theatre in Columbus, Ohio, American Society for Theater Research, the Society of Dance History Scholars, the editorial boards of SDHS and Choreographic Practices, and is a founding member of the Collegium for African Diasporic Dance (CADD).

Creative projects

Her creative projects include Architectura, a dance theater piece inspired by architecture,^[8] about how we build our lives, Suzan-Lori Parks' Fucking A, and Topdog/Underdog.^[6]

Awards

She is a recipient of the 2021 Outstanding Scholarly Research in Dance Award from the Dance Studies Association and Dramaturg for Bessie Honoree Brother(hood) Dance! in 2020.^[9] In 2016 she received the Diversity Equity Inclusion Distinguished Teaching Award; in 2014 she received the Living Legacy Award from the Women's International Center.^[10]

Works

She is the author of a number of books and articles on African American theater and dance.^[6]

Books

The Royalty of Negro Vaudeville: The Whitman Sisters and the Negotiation of Race, Gender and Class in African American Theater 1900-1940, 2003, ISBN 0312225628^[11]
Urban Bush Women: Twenty Years of African American Dance Theater, Community Engagement, and Working It Out, 2012, ISBN 978-0-299-23554-3;^[12] 2012 Sally Banes Award honorable mention of the American Society for Theatre Research^[13]
(edited)George-Graves, Nadine, ed. (2015). The Oxford handbook of dance and theater. New York: Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199917495.001.0001. ISBN 9780199917495. 2016 Sally Banes Award honorable mention of the American Society for Theatre Research^[13]

Chapters

"'Just Like Being at the Zoo', Primitivity and Ragtime Dance", in: Ballroom, Boogie, Shimmy Sham, Shake: A Social and Popular Dance Reader, 2009, ISBN 025207565X, pp. 55–71

References

^ George-Graves, Nadine, ed. (2015). The Oxford handbook of dance and theater. New York: Oxford university press. p. xix. doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199917495.001.0001. ISBN 9780199917495.
^ "Nadine George-Graves". School of Communication - Northwestern University.
^ https://www.dancestudiesassociation.org/drj-submission-guidelines
^ "Nadine George-Graves". dance.osu.edu. Retrieved 2020-08-28.
^ Studio, Familiar (2020-08-28). "Dr. Nadine George Graves joins the Dance Research Journal…". DSA. Retrieved 2020-08-28.
^ ^a ^b ^c Nadine George-Graves, UCSD profile
^ "DSA - Board of Directors". www.cordance.org.
^ "Architectura by Nadine George-Graves". Theatre 167.
^ "Outstanding Scholarly Research". Dance Studies Association. Retrieved 4 June 2023.
^ "Women's International Center - Living Legacy Awards 2014". www.wic.org.
^
Reviews of The Royalty of Negro Vaudeville:
- Manifold, Gay (2001). "The Royalty of Negro Vaudeville: The Whitman Sisters and the Negotiation of Race, Gender, and Class in African American Theater, 1900-1940 (review)". Theatre Journal. 53 (4): 663–664. doi:10.1353/tj.2001.0120. ISSN 1086-332X. S2CID 201791970.
- Dinwiddie, Michael (January 2001). "The Royalty of Negro Vaudeville: The Whitman Sisters and the Negotiation of Race, Gender, and Class in African American Theater, 1900–1940, by Nadine George-Graves. 2000. New York: St. Martin's Press, xviii + 183 pp., photographs, appendices, notes, bibliography, index. $49.95 cloth". Dance Research Journal. 33 (2): 134–138. doi:10.2307/1477813. ISSN 1940-509X. JSTOR 1477813. S2CID 198788101.
- Lewis, Barbara (Winter 2003). "Resistance, Parody, and Double Consciousness in African American Theatre, 1895-1910/The Royalty of Negro Vaudeville: The Whitman Sisters and the Negotiation of Race, Gender, and Class in African American Theatre, 1900-1940/African American Performance and Theater History: A Critical Reader". Nineteenth Century Theatre and Film. 30 (2): 90–96 – via ProQuest.
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Reviews of Urban Bush Women:
- Cash, Debra (2011). "Work That Body". The Women's Review of Books. 28 (2): 26–28. ISSN 0738-1433. JSTOR 41331720.
- Kowal, Rebekah J. (2012). "Measuring a Choreographic Legacy in Humanitarian Terms: New Books on Pearl Primus and the Urban Bush Women". Dance Research: The Journal of the Society for Dance Research. 30 (2): 191–196. doi:10.3366/drs.2012.0047. ISSN 0264-2875. JSTOR 23326534.
- Das, Joanna Dee (2013). "Review of Urban Bush Women: Twenty Years of African American Dance Theater, Community Engagement, and Working It Out". Dance Research Journal. 45 (2): 145–148. doi:10.1017/S0149767713000089. ISSN 0149-7677. JSTOR 23524658. S2CID 193264779.
^ ^a ^b "Award Winner Archive - American Society For Theatre Research (ASTR)". www.astr.org.