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Ramon Rivera-Servera

Department of Performance Studies

Ramon Rivera-Servera's research and teaching focus on contemporary Latina/o American public cultures with special emphasis on the ways categories of race, gender and sexuality are negotiated in the process of migration. His work documents Latina/o queer performance practices ranging from theatre and concert dance to social dance, fashion and speech. He is currently co-editing an anthology on Black and Latina/o queer performance with E. Patrick Johnson (Professor and Chair of the Department of Performance Studies). Prior to joining Northwestern, Rivera-Servera taught at Arizona State University and the University of Rochester.

Education

PhD	Theater, University of Texas-Austin (emphasis in performance as public practice)
MA	Theatre Studies, City University of New York
BA	Art History, University of Rochester (focus on contemporary visual cultural studies)

Publications

In-progress: Performing Latinidad: Queer Sexualities and Global Imaginaries, which examines contemporary relationships between performance and politics among Latina/o queer communities in the U.S.

In progress: Exhibiting Performance: Race, Museums, and the Live Event (research support awarded the Smithsonian Institution), which looks at the collection and exhibition of performance at museums and cultural heritage sites throughout North America and the Caribbean through a critical race theory lens.

"Exhibiting Voice/Narrating Migration: Performance-based Curatorial Practice in Azúcar! The Life and Music of Celia Cruz," Text and Performance Quarterly (forthcoming, 2009)

"Latina/o Queer Futurities: Arthur Aviles Takes on the Bronx," Ollantay Theatre Magazine. 15.29-30 (2007): 127-156.

"Of Crucified Bodies and Superheroes: Migration Scenarios and Border Art," in Amelia Malagamba-Ansótegui, ed. Caras Vemos, Corazones No Sabemos: The Human Landscape of Mexican Migration. Snite Mueum of Art (South Bend, IN: University of Notre Dame, 2006): 70-103.

"Choreographies of Resistance: Latina/o Queer Dance and the Utopian Performative," Modern Drama. 47.2 (2004): 269-289.

Other writings and reviews on Latina/o performance have appeared in Theatre Journal, TDR: The Journal of Performance Studies, The New West Indian Guide, The Baylor Journal of Theatre, The Smithsonian Institution Latina/o Virtual Gallery; Caribbean Dance From Abakuá to Zouk: How Movement Becomes Identity, ed. Susana Sloat (University of Florida Press, 2003) and Caras Vemos, Corazones No Sabemos: The Human Landscape of Mexican Migration to the United States (Snite Museum of Fine Arts-University of Notre Dame, 2006).

Associations

Rivera-Servera serves on the editorial board of Theatre Topics and recently completed co-editing a full year special issue of Ollantay Theatre Magazine on Latina/o queer performance (fall 2007). He serves in the Executive Committee of the American Society for Theatre Research. He is also a member of the Research and Publications Committee of the Association for Theatre in Higher Education where he was president and founding officer of the Latina/o Performance Focus Group.

Courses

PERF_ST 330-0	Topics: Queer Sexualities and Popular Culture
PERF_ST 515-0	Seminar: Performing Latinidad