Scott Magelssen. “Dinosaurs, Racial Anxiety, and Curatorial Intervention: Whiteness and Performative Historiography in the Museum.” Special Issue on Theatre Historiography, ed. Michal Kobialka. Pamietnik Teatralny 70.4 (2022). |
Publications, Essays |
Theater History, 19th Century, 20th Century, Historiography, History, Indigenous, Performance Studies, Popular Culture, Race and Ethnicity |
Performing Flight: From the Barnstormers to Space Tourism. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2020. |
Publications, Books |
Theater History, Culture, Historiography, Performance Studies, Popular Culture, Visual Culture |
Scott Magelssen and Shelby Lunderman. “Tactical Slowness: Fomenting a Culture of Mental Health in the Academy.” Reversing the Cult of Speed in Higher Education: The Slow Movement in the Arts and Humanities. Ed. Jonathan Chambers and Stephannie Gearhart (Routledge, 2018). |
Publications, Essays |
Culture, Drama, Performance Studies, Popular Culture, Theater History |
Scott Venters, "'Better to burn': The Prima Mimarum and Political Friction in Fourth-Century Antioch," Theatre Journal (March, 2018). |
Publications |
Ancient, Classics, Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies, Performance Studies, Popular Culture, Religion |
Axel Andersson and Scott Magelssen, “Performing a Viking History of America: The 1893 Voyage and Display of a Viking Longship at the Columbus Quadricentennial.” Theatre Journal 69.2 (June 2017), pp. 175-195. |
Publications, Essays |
19th Century, Culture, Historiography, History, Performance Studies, Popular Culture, Scandinavian, Theater History, Theory/Criticism, Visual Culture |
Scott Magelssen, “Our Academic Discipline is Making Us Sicker.” Special Section: ASTR’s 60th Anniversary. Theatre Survey 57.3 (September, 2016) 389-394. |
Publications, Essays |
Culture, Performance Studies, Popular Culture, Theater History |
Scott Magelssen, “White-Skinned Gods: Thor Heyerdahl, The Kon-Tiki Museum, and the Racial Theory of Polynesian Origins.” TDR: The Drama Review 60.1 [T229] (Winter, 2016). |
Publications, Essays |
Indigenous, Performance Studies, Popular Culture, Postcolonial, Race and Ethnicity, Scandinavian, Theater History |
"'Would you die for the Fatherland?': Disciplining the German Commemorative Body," Theatre History Studies 35 (2016): 39-72. |
Publications, Essays |
18th Century, 19th Century, 20th Century, Culture, Dance, Modernism, Performance Studies, Popular Culture, Race and Ethnicity |
"'The ransome of Prides fury': The Executions as the Hope Bear-Garden and the (De)Mythologization of the English Commonwealth." New England Theatre Journal 26 (2015): 1-20. |
Publications, Essays |
17th Century, English, Performance Studies, Popular Culture, Theater History |
Scott Magelssen. Simming: Participatory Performance and the Making of Meaning. U of Michigan Press, 2014. |
Publications, Books |
Theater History, Performance Studies, Popular Culture |
Scott Magelssen and Rhona Justice-Malloy, editors. Enacting History. U of Alabama Press, 2011. |
Publications, Books |
Museum Studies/Museology, Popular Culture, Theater History |
Scott Magelssen. Living History Museums: Undoing History Through Performance. Scarecrow, 2007. |
Publications, Books |
Popular Culture, Theater History |