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Biography

Shannon Rose Riley is an interdisciplinary artist and scholar. She has a PhD in Performance Studies and Critical Theory from the University of California, Davis (2006), an MFA in Studio Art (Performance, Video, Installation) from Tufts University and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (1998), a BFA in Sculpture and Art History from Maine College of Art (1995) as well as broad undergraduate training in the arts and humanities at the University of Notre Dame, University of Colorado, Boulder, and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She is also a Registered Somatic Movement Educator and Therapist with ISMETA. Riley is the author of Performing Race and Erasure: Cuba, Haiti, & US Culture, 1898-1940 (Palgrave, 2016). She is co-editor, with Sondra Fraleigh, of Geographies of Us: Ecosomatic Essays and Practice Pages (Routledge, 2024)) and co-editor, with Lynette Hunter, of Mapping Landscapes for Performance as Research: Scholarly Acts and Creative Cartographies (Palgrave, 2009). Her visual and performance works have been exhibited/staged internationally at numerous venues, including the ICA (Portland ME), Mobius (Boston), Randolph Street Gallery and Artemisia Gallery (Chicago), the Cushwa-Leighton Library (Notre Dame IN), Performance Studies International (PSi) in Mainz Germany (2001) and Stanford (2013), the Festival Nacional de Pequeño Formato (Santa Clara Cuba, 2006) and Month of Performance Art-Berlin (2013). She performs and records with the Chicago-based group, ONO. Their latest album, Red Summer, (May 2020) is on American Dreams Records. Riley is a Professor of Creative Arts and Humanities and the Director of the Dance Program at San José State University.

Activities

Employment (6)

San José State University: San José, CA, US

2008 to present | Professor (Humanities, Creative Arts Program)
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Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts: Portland, ME, US

2007 to present | Affiliated Faculty/Dissertation Director
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Saint Mary's College at Notre Dame: Notre Dame, IN, US

2006 to 2008 | CWIL Postdoctoral Fellow (Center for Women's Intercultural Leadership/Comm Studies/Performance Studies)
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Maine College of Art: Portland, ME, US

1998 to 2002 | Dean of Students (Student Services)
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Maine College of Art: Portland, ME, US

1998 to 2002 | Adjunct Professor (Art History and New Media)
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Maine College of Art: Portland, US

1998-01 to 1998-07 | Assisant to the Director of Graduate Studies (Graduate Studies)
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Education and qualifications (3)

University of California Davis: Davis, California, US

2002 to 2006 | PhD (Performance Studies & DE in Critical Theory)
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Tufts University/School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston: Medford and Boston, MA, US

1995 to 1998 | MFA (Studio Art)
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Maine College of Art: Portland, ME, US

1992 to 1995 | BFA (Sculpture & Art History)
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Professional activities (12)

International Somatic Movement Education and Therapy Association: Troy, New York, US

2021 to present
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The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi: Baton Rouge, LA, US

2017 to present | faculty member
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Centre for Imaginative Ethnography: Vancouver, CA

2016 to present | Member
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San José State University Academic Senate: San José , CA, US

2012 to present | Senator
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Canada Foundation for Innovation: ON, ON, CA

2020 to 2020 | Reviewier for Funding Proposal (John R. Evans Leaders Fund)
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CSU Chancellor's Doctoral Incentive Program: Long Beach, CA, US

2018 to 2020 | Faculty Mentor
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American Society for Theatre Research: Santa Cruz, CA, US

2006 to 2018 | professional member
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Canada Research Chairs: Ottawa, Ontario, CA

2016 to 2017 | Reviewer of Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Social Practice (Visual and Media Arts)
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Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC): Ottawa, CA

2015 to 2016 | Project Evaluator (Insight Grants Program)
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Alexander Street Press: Alexandria, VA, US

2008 to 2014 | Editorial Board Member (Black Drama: 1850 to the Present, Second Edition)
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Sam Houston State University: Huntsville, TX, US

2004 to 2004 | Choreography Residency (Dept. of Theatre & Dance)
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C-Scape Dune Shack Residency: Provincetown, MA, US

2001-05 to 2001-07 | artist-in-residence
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Works (50)

A Critical Ecosomatics: Cultivating Awareness and Imagination

Geographies of Us: Ecosomatic Essays and Practice Pages
2024 | Book chapter
Contributors: Shannon Rose Riley
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Geographies of Us: Ecosomatic Essays and Practice Pages

Routledge
2024 | Book
Contributors: Shannon Rose Riley; Sondra Fraleigh
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Introduction: Locating Geographies of Us

Geographies of Us: Ecosomatic Essays and Practice Pages
2024 | Book chapter
Contributors: Shannon Rose Riley; Sondra Fraleigh
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Moving with Cats

Geographies of Us: Ecosomatic Essays and Practice Pages
2024 | Book chapter
Contributors: Shannon Rose Riley
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Moving through The Campus Tree Project

Expanding Education through Somatic Practices, Eastwest Somatics Institute
2024-02-10 | Conference paper
Contributors: Shannon Rose Riley
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Entangled Roots: Movement in Depth and Exquisite Eco-Somas

Performing Nature: Color Country Conference," Eastwest Somatics Institute
2023-05 | Conference paper
Contributors: Shannon Rose Riley
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Movement in Depth and Exquisite Eco-Somas

“Performing Nature: Color Country Conference” international conference organized by Eastwest Somatics Institute
2023-05 | Other
Contributors: Shannon Rose Riley; Sara Pfeifle Gallo
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Moving with Cats

Color Canyons (Eastwest Somatics Institute Network Conference)
2022-05-16 | Conference paper
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Shannon Rose Riley

Ecosomatic/s in the Anthropocene: Attending to the More-than-Human

Somatics in Nature (Eastwest Somatics Institute)
2021-10-17 | Conference paper
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Shannon Rose Riley

ONO presents Russell Atkins' "The Corpse"

Eclogues Radio
2021-02-25 | Artistic performance
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ONO Epistemologies—Resounding the “Bleeding Haints”

Performance Matters
2021-01-30 | Journal article
Contributors: Shannon Rose Riley; travis; P Michael Grego
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“Kongo” and “Mercy,” limited edition 12” pressed vinyl (ONO)

Cincinnati: Whited Sepulchre Records
2020-06-01 | Artistic performance
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Red Summer (ONO)

American Dreams Records
2020-05-01 | Artistic performance
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Loving a Hornworm in End-Times: Connecting to the Small in Nature

Catamaran Literary Reader
2020-02 | Journal article
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F*ck U! In the Most Loving Way: The Making of a National Feminist Art Exhibition

Mido Lee (Northern California Women’s Caucus for Art)
2019 | Artistic performance
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Shh

F213 Catalog Karen Gutfreund, ed., San Francisco: Northern California Women’s Caucus for Art
2019 | Book chapter
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Shannon Rose Riley

I Dream of Sodomy (ONO)

Cold Moon Records
2018 | Artistic performance
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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
2017 | Book chapter
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Shannon Rose Riley

ONO Epistemologies: resounding the ‘bleeding haints’

American Society of Theatre Research (ASTR), Atlanta
2017-11 | Conference paper
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Custodians of the Passage: Watery Dreams and Dangerous Crossings

XXXV International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA), Lima Peru
2017-04 | Conference paper
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Cuba, Haiti, and the USA: Performing Race, Nation, and Empire, 1898-1940

University Scholar Series, San José State University
2017-03-22 | Lecture/speech
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Performing Race and Erasure: Cuba, Haiti, and US Culture, 1898-1940

Palgrave Macmillan
2016 | Book
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Crossing the Windward Passage: an installation in process

Society for Applied Anthropology (SFAA) conference, Vancouver, BC
2016-04 | Conference paper
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Spooks (ONO)

Moniker Records
2015 | Artistic performance
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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.

TDR: The Drama Review, 59:2 (Summer 2015): 170-73.
2015 | Book review
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Diegesis (ONO)

Moniker Records
2014 | Artistic performance
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Mis(s) Translation in the Field

American Anthropological Association (AAA), Washington DC
2014 | Conference paper
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Lo trans-revolucionario que se repite: cruzando el Pasaje de Barlovento entre Cuba y Haití

"Cuba Trasatlántica: Congreso internacional de estudios culturales, interdisciplinarios y transatlánticos," organized by the Transatlantic Studies Group of the University of Havana, the University of Granada, and the Transatlantic Project of Brown University, with the co-sponsorship of the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Cuba, Havana, Cuba
2013 | Conference paper
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Why performance as research? A US perspective

Practice as Research in the Arts: Principles, Protocols, Pedagogies, Resistances
2013 | Book chapter
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2-s2.0-84991566131

Contributors: Riley, S.R.
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Shannon Rose Riley via Scopus - Elsevier

Nicole Returns to Dallas: Post-tenure Performance as Research and Gentlemen’s Clubs in the Naked Empire

American Society for Theatre Research (ASTR), Dallas, TX
2013-11 | Conference paper
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Shannon Rose Riley

crisis—perform—repeat, excerpt (solo performance art)

2013-06-29 | Artistic performance
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Ich bin ein Berliner: Miss Translation goes to Berlin (performance art collaboration)

Month of Performance Art, Berlin
2013-05 | Artistic performance
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Lie-in (Lion) (performance collaboration)

Month of Performance Art, Berlin
2013-05 | Artistic performance
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Shannon Rose Riley

Book Review of A Cultural History of Cuba During the US Occupation, 1898-1902 by Marial Utset (U of North Carolina Press).”

The Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, 12.2 (April 2013): 273-76.
2013-04 | Book review
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crisis—perform—repeat (solo performance art)

Northern California Performance Platform, UC Davis
2013-04-12 | Artistic performance
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Albino (ONO)

Moniker Records
2012 | Artistic performance
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Interracial Collaboration and Un-American Haiti

American Society of Theatre Research (ASTR), Nashville TN
2012 | Conference paper
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Cruzando el pasaje de Barlovento: una geografía negra

32nd Festival del Caribe/Fiesta del Fuego, Santiago de Cuba, Cuba, July 3-9, 2012
2012-07-04 | Conference paper
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Mistaken Identities, Miscegenation, & Missing Origins: The Curious Case of 'Haiti'

A Tyranny of Documents: The Performing Arts Historian as Film Noir Detective (Performing Arts Resources, Vol. 28)
2011 | Journal article
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Kathy Goes to Haiti: Sex, Race, and Occupation in Kathy Acker's Voodoo Travel Narrative

2009 | Book
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3998978

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Shannon Rose Riley via MLA International Bibliography

Lab/studio

Mapping Landscapes for Performance as Research: Scholarly Acts and Creative Cartographies
2009 | Book chapter
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2-s2.0-85015958487

Contributors: Riley, S.R.
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Shannon Rose Riley via Scopus - Elsevier

Mapping landscapes for performance as research: Scholarly acts and creative cartographies

Mapping Landscapes for Performance as Research: Scholarly Acts and Creative Cartographies
2009 | Book
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2-s2.0-85015928753

Contributors: Riley, S.R.; Hunter, L.
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Shannon Rose Riley via Scopus - Elsevier

Miss translation USA goes to cuba: Performance as research toward a performative ethnography

Mapping Landscapes for Performance as Research: Scholarly Acts and Creative Cartographies
2009 | Book chapter
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2-s2.0-84255205148

Contributors: Riley, S.R.
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Shannon Rose Riley via Scopus - Elsevier

Imagi-Nations in Black and White: Cuba, Haiti, and the Performance of Difference in U.S. National Projects, 1898-1940

2007 | Journal article
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6410881

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Shannon Rose Riley via MLA International Bibliography

Racing the Archive: Will the Real William DuBois Please Stand Up?

2007 | Journal article
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6350997

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Shannon Rose Riley via MLA International Bibliography
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Embodied Perceptual Practices: Towards an Embrained and Embodied Model of Mind for Use in Actor Training and Rehearsal

2004 | Journal article
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6213663

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Shannon Rose Riley via MLA International Bibliography

Who is Speaking?

International Association of Philosophy and Literature (IAPL), SUNY Stonybrook
2000 | Conference paper
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Shannon Rose Riley

Cyberdolly & me: The Ritual Construction of Power Tools (solo multimedia performance)

Love Machine Group Show, Fine Arts Cinema, Portland ME (curated by Michael Whittaker)
1999 | Artistic performance
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Reports from the Interior/Reports from the Surface (solo exhibition/three-week-long durational performance)

Mobius, Boston MA
1999-06 | Artistic performance
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The Reconstruction of Monological Perspectives: Postmodernism and the Expanding Discourses of Art and Medical Science

American Association of Higher Education (AAHE), Washington, DC
1995 | Conference paper
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