Jacqueline Shea Murphy
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Jacqueline Shea Murphy, Assistant Professor, College of
Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences, Dance
1979 Princeton University)
Office: ARTS Bldg. 107
Phone: (909) 787-3988
Fax: (909) 787-5461
E-mail: jacqueline.sheamurphy@ucr.edu |
Degrees
PhD English 2000 UC Berkeley
Biography
Jacqueline Shea Murphy is Assistant Professor in the Dance
department at UCR, where she teaches courses in dance history
and theory. She is co-editor of the collection Bodies of the
Text: Dance as Theory, Literature as Dance, (Rutgers UP, 1995).
. Her article “Lessons in Dance (as) History: Aboriginal
Dance, circa 1999,” appeared in a recent dance studies
collection, and she has also published and taught in the field
of Native American literary studies. Shea Murphy received
her Ph.D. from the English department at UC Berkeley, with
a dissertation that looks at performance structures in U.S.
literatures. Her areas of specialization include U.S. dance
history, performance theory, cross-cultural approaches to
dance, "race" and representation in dance, Native
American studies, feminist and gender studies, U.S. ethnic
literature, and fiction writing. She is also a teacher and
practitioner of Iyengar yoga. Professor Shea Murphy is currently
working on a critical study of Native American dance in and
as history. Her interests in this project include the history
of federal relationships to American Indian dance practices,
white modern dancers' representations of "Indian"
dance, issues and problems in ethnographies of American Indian
dance, and contemporary Native American stage dance. She is
at work on a book-length study of this topic, called The People
Have Never Stopped Dancing: Contemporary Native American Stage
Dance History
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