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from Southern Illinois University Carbondale. Invoking Florida’s “Stand Your Ground” law, Zimmerman claimed he was threatened by the presence of the unarmed African-American high school student wearing a hooded sweatshirt. After several frenetic acts of twisting phantom locks across the expanse of his head, the performer slowly turns to face the audience and begins speaking...
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Fading, Twisting, and Weaving: An Interpretive Ethnography of the Black Barbershop as Cultural Space
Qualitative Inquiry2003-02-01
Barbershops in the Black community are discursive spaces in which the confluence of Black hair care, for and by Black people, and small talk establish a context for cultural exchange.
from Southern Illinois University Carbondale. Explicating the construction of “generative autobiographical performance,” the essay continues the retheorizing of the personal narrator in autobiographical performance as something other than a heroic autonomous subject. This interpretive ethnography describes the barbershop in a Black community as a cultural site for ethnographic exploration and description.
It is the social experience of being in the barbershop that the article focuses on, knowing that social experience meets at the intersection of culture and performance, and at the confluence of reflection and remembrance...
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Skin Flint (or, The Garbage Man's Kid): A Generative Autobiographical Performance Based on Tami Spry's Tattoo Stories
Text & Performance QuarterlyThis essay capitalizes on the hope that autobiographical performance's aesthetic of incarnation may become an aesthetic ofreincamation.
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He promotes and embodies the importance of diversity, equity, and inclusion in all aspects of higher education and civic life.
For more information visit Dr. Alexander’s website.
Bryant Keith Alexander
Bryant Keith Alexander, Ph.D., Dean of the LMU College of Communication and Fine Arts, and Professor of Communication and Performance Studies
Bryant Keith Alexander, Ph.D.
His over 150 scholarly publications appear in leading journals and major handbooks that evidence the broad interdisciplinary and intellectual curiosity of his engagement, including: “The Handbook of Qualitative Inquiry 4thand 5theditions, and the forthcoming 6th Edition,” “The Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Communication,” “The Handbook of Autoethnography,” “The Blackwell Handbook of Critical Intercultural Communication,” “The Handbook of Communication and Instruction,” “The Handbook of Critical and Indigenous Methodologies,” “The Handbook of Qualitative Research,” “The Handbook of Performance Studies,” and “Men and Masculinities: Critical Concepts in Sociology.”Dean Alexander also has six books.
At LMU he holds tenure in the Department of Communication Studies and serves as Affiliate Faculty in the Educational Leadership for Social Justice Doctoral Program in LMU’s School of Education where he sits on relevant dissertation projects; as he also does at several major universities in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia.
Before arriving at LMU, Alexander was a tenured professor of Communication Studies and Affiliate Faculty of Theatre Arts and Dance at California State University Los Angeles for 14 years, where he also served as the director of the Basic Course and director of Graduate Teaching Associates in the Department of Communication Studies, chair of the Department of Liberal Studies, associate dean, and interim dean of the College of Arts and Letters — a college that included many of the current disciplines in CFA as well as English, Liberal Studies, Modern Languages and Literatures, Philosophy, Television, Film and Media Studies, with master's and MFA degrees in film and art, along with course offerings, minor programs, and certificates in Journalism, Korean, Linguistics, Teaching Critical Thinking, as well as Women, Genders and Sexualities.
Alexander has evidenced the ability to work successfully in diverse academic institutions including California State University Los Angeles, Southern Illinois University Carbondale, Moorhead State University, MN and Texas A&M University-College Station, which informs his leadership at LMU.
Alexander’s administrative, teaching, and scholarly life celebrates integrative and interdisciplinary approaches to knowledge, and a demonstrated commitment to high-quality undergraduate and graduate programs.
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Alexander has nine books.
In the process, the essay also continues to explore autobiographical performance as a form of cultural critique...
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Performing Culture in the Classroom: An Instructional (Auto) Ethnography
Text & Performance QuarterlyThe notion of performing culture in the classroom is both a paradigmatic description of a phenomenon as well as a theoretical position.
The performer reenacts a twisting of phantom dreadlocks.
His scholarship and teaching have been recognized with a range of national and regional awards including the Ellis-Bochner Autoethnography and Personal Narrative Research Award; the Ethnography Division Legacy Award of the National Communication Association (which was preceded by top paper, top chapter, top book awards); the Randy Majors Award for GLBTQ Scholarship; The H.L.
“Bud” Goodall, Jr. and Nick Trujillo “It’s a Way of Life” Award in Narrative Ethnography; the Norman K. Denzin Qualitative Research Award, the Master Teaching Award from the Western States Communication Association, the 2021 Black Community Impact Award at Loyola Marymount University, the 2021 National Communication Association Performance Studies Division Distinguished Service Award, and the 2021 Shawn Long Administrator of the Year Award from the Association for Communication Administration.
Alexander has an earned Ph.D.
He has commitments in promoting leadership in/as collaboration and consensus building as well as an acknowledgment of administration, teaching, and scholarship as informing practices of active academic professionalism. The stage expands performance opportunities for Theatre, Dance, and Music, while also serving the diverse programming needs of the campus, including, but not limited to new and graduating student ceremonies, and the annual university presidential convocation.
Alexander also serves as the co-chair of the Inclusive History and Images Project with Chanceller Fr.
Michael Engh since its inception in 2020.