Publications & Presentations

BOOKS


Fraleigh, Sondra and Shannon Rose Riley, eds. Geographies of Us: Ecosomatic Essays and Practice Pages. New York & London: Routledge, Studies in Theatre, Ecology and Performance Series, 2024.

Riley, Shannon Rose.  Performing Race and Erasure: Cuba, Haiti, & US Culture, 1898-1940, Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History Series, New York and Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan/Springer, 2016. 

Riley, Shannon Rose and Lynette Hunter, eds. Mapping Landscapes for Performance as Research: Scholarly Acts and Creative Cartographies. New York and Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.

 

CHAPTERS


Fraleigh, Sondra and Shannon Rose Riley, “Introduction: Locating Geographies of Us,” Geographies of Us: Ecosomatic Essays and Practice Pages. Eds. S. Fraleigh and S.R. Riley. New York & London: Routledge, Studies in Theatre, Ecology and Performance Series, 2024, 1-13.

Riley, Shannon Rose. “A Critical Ecosomatics: Cultivating Awareness and Imagination,” in Geographies of Us: Ecosomatic Essays and Practice Pages. Chapter 1. Eds. S. Fraleigh and S.R. Riley. New York & London: Routledge, Studies in Theatre, Ecology and Performance Series, 2024, 17-35.

_____. “Moving with Cats,” Geographies of Us: Ecosomatic Essays and Practice Pages. Chapter 8. Eds. S. Fraleigh and S.R. Riley. New York & London: Routledge, Studies in Theatre, Ecology and Performance Series, 2024, 158-182.

Riley, Shannon Rose and Lynette Hunter. “Introduction.” Mapping Landscapes for Performance as Research: Scholarly Acts and Creative Cartographies, Eds. S.R. Riley and L. Hunter. New York and Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014/2009, xv-xxiv. 

Riley, Shannon Rose. “Lab/Studio.” Mapping Landscapes for Performance as Research: Scholarly Acts and Creative Cartographies, Eds. S.R. Riley and L. Hunter. New York and Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014/2009, 137-141.

_____.  “Miss Translation Goes to Cuba: Performance as Research toward a Performative Ethnography.” Mapping Landscapes for Performance as Research: Scholarly Acts and Creative Cartographies, Eds. S.R. Riley and L. Hunter.  New York and Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014/2009, 214-222.

_____.  “Why Performance as Research?—a U.S. Perspective.” Practice as Research in the Arts: Principles, Protocols, Pedagogies, Resistances. Ed., Robin Nelson, New York and Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013, 175-87.

_____.  “Kathy Goes to Haiti: Sex, Race, and Occupation in Kathy Acker’s Voodoo Travel Narrative.”  Kathy Acker and Transnationalism. Eds. Polina Mackay and Kathryn Nicol, Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009, 29-49. 

 

PEER-REVIEWED JOURNAL ARTICLES


Riley, Shannon Rose, P. Michael Grego, and travis. “ONO Epistemologies: Resounding the ‘bleeding haints,’” Performance Matters special issue: Sound Acts, Part 1. Vol. 6, Iss. 2 (Winter 2020): 60-69. NB: download PDF to play embedded sound files. https://performancematters-thejournal.com/index.php/pm/article/view/301        

Riley, Shannon Rose. “Mistaken Identities, Miscegenation, & Missing Origins: The Curious Case of Haiti.” Performing Arts Resources, Special Issue: A Tyranny of Documents: The Performing Arts Historian as Film Noir Detective, Volume 28 (Winter 2011): 252-262.

_____.  “Racing the Archive: Will the Real William DuBois Please Stand Up?” English Language Notes (ELN) 45.1 (Spring/Summer 2007): 103-110.  Peer-reviewed Article.

_____.  “Embodied Perceptual Practices: Towards an Embrained and Embodied Model of Mind for Use in Actor Training and Rehearsal.” Theatre Topics 14.2 (2004): 445-71. Peer-reviewed Article.

 

OP-EDs


Riley, Shannon Rose. “Democracy May Be on the Wane This Midterm Election Day; Perhaps It Never Existed in the U.S.” Commentary. The Hill Reporter, November 17, 2022. 

 

CREATIVE NON-FICTION & FICTION


Riley, Shannon Rose. “The Ten Years War,” Uprooting: Surviving Cycles of Domestic Abuse. McCutcheon, Jade Rosina and Kristin Thomas, eds., Portland, OR: The Poetry Box Press, September 2023.

_____.  “The Ten Years War,” Uprooting: Surviving Cycles of Domestic Abuse. McCutcheon, Jade Rosina and Kristin Thomas, eds., Salem, OR: ABC Printers, 2022. Published as a fundraiser for Sable House, Oregon.

_____.  “Loving a Hornworm in End-Times: Connecting to the Small in Nature,” Catamaran Literary Reader, Vol. 8, Iss. 1 (#28), Spring 2020, 75-80. Creative nonfiction in acclaimed print literary journal; archived online: https://static1.squarespace.com/static/50a3e7b0e4b0216a96954b82/t/60297d656bde4077e06461b0/1613331822698/Loving+a+Hornworm+in+End+Times+-.pdf      

_____.  “Shh,” Karen Gutfreund, ed., San Francisco: Northern California Women’s Caucus for Art. 2019, invited peer-reviewed short fiction, p 106. https://issuu.com/mrpotani/docs/f213_catalog_for_issuu        

_____.  “Juror Statement.” F*ck U! In the Most Loving Way​, Karen Gutfreund, ed., San Francisco: Northern California Women’s Caucus for Art. 2017, 90-91.

 

REVIEWS


Riley, Shannon Rose.  “Trumpets in the Mountains: Theater and the Politics of National Culture in Cuba by Laurie A. Frederik; Cuba Inside Out: Revolution and Contemporary Theatre by Yael Prizant.” Books review. TDR: The Drama Review, 59:2 (Summer 2015): 170-73. Books review in leading peer-reviewed journal.

_____.  “Almanacs, Street Names, and Symbolic Gestures: Producing the Cuban Nation in Daily Life: a Book Review of A Cultural History of Cuba During the US Occupation, 1898-1902 by Marial Utset (U of North Carolina Press).” Book review. The Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, 12.2 (April 2013): 273-76. Book review in peer-reviewed journal.

_____.  “Alice Neel and Who’s Afraid of Kathy Acker.” Films review. Films for the Feminist Classroom, 4.1 (Spring Summer 2012), http://www.signs.rutgers.edu/rev_Shannon_Rose_Riley_4-1.html.

_____.  “Horizon.” Performance review. Baylor Journal of Theatre and Performance 3.1 (2006): 101-105.