History, Memory, Performance

by David M. Dean (Editor)

History, Memory, Performance; David Dean, Yana Meerzon, Kathryn Prince 1. Discursive Practices and Narrative History, Poetry, Philosophy; Freddie Rokem 2. Performing Pasts for Present Reenactment as Embodied, Performative History; Katherine Johnson 3. Minding the The Choreographer as Hyper-historian in Oral History-based Performance; Jeff Friedman 4. Un/becoming Marc Lescarbot, Movement, and Metamorphosis in Les Muses de la Nouvelle France; VK Preston 5. Group Biography, Montage, and Modern Women in Hooligans and Building Jerusalem; Nancy Copeland 6. Alexander Pushkin's Boris Godunov as Epic Theatre; J. Douglas Clayton 7. Shakespeare Inside Hamlet as Intertext in the USSR 1934-1943; Irena R. Makaryk 8. Raoul Wallenberg on Stage - or at Stake? Guilt and Shame as Obstacles in the Commemoration of a Holocaust Hero; Tanja Schult 9. Staging Auschwitz, Making Performances between History, Memory, and Myth; Rachel E. Bennett 10. Real Archive, Contested Memory, Fake Transnational Representations of Trauma by Lebanese War Generation Artists; Johnny Alam 11. Performing Collective 9/11 and the Reconstruction of American Identity; Josy Miller 12. Brazilian Contemporary Memories of Violence on the Post-Dictatorship Stage; Claudia Tatinge Nascimento 13. Bent and the Staging of the Queer Holocaust Experience; Samantha Mitschke 14. Partners in Ethics and the Emergent Practice of Oral History Performance; Edward Little and Steven High Bibliography Index

312 pages, Paperback

First published November 19, 2014

About the author

David Dean specialises in public history, particularly historical representation and performance in museums, film, and theatre, and early modern British history. His most recent book is History, Memory, Performance (Palgrave, 2015), an interdisciplinary co-edited collection of essays exploring performances of the past in a variety of contexts. He is editing A Companion to Public History (Wiley-Blackwell) and writing Shakespeare’s England: A Cultural History, 1558-1649 (with Dr Kathryn Prince, Wiley-Blackwell). In 2013 he guest edited a special issue of Peace and Conflict, focusing on Canadian museums as sites for historical understanding and social justice. His most recent article is an exploration of the film depiction of the Elizabethan Settlement in Shekhar Kapur’s Elizabeth. David is organising this year’s Shannon Lectures in History on the theme Performing History: Re-Staging the Past.
After completing his Cambridge doctorate, David taught at Goldsmiths’ College, University of London for eleven years before coming to Carleton where he has been Full Professor since 2000. From 2008 until 2012 David was Company Historian to Ottawa’s National Art Centre’s English Theatre, working on productions such as Macbeth, Mother Courage, the Christmas Carol, Romeo and Juliet, Vimy and King Lear. One of the founding members of the Department’s MA in Public History, which he co-ordinated for six years, David was co-founder of the Carleton Centre for Public History, and currently shares the directorship with Dr James Opp. David’s current teaching repertoire includes undergraduate courses such as Early Modern Britain, History at the Movies, and a seminar on early modern witchcraft and social disorder, as well as the core MA in Public History seminar on Museums, Public Memory and National Identify and an optional seminar, Narrativity and Performance in Public History. He has supervised twenty-seven postgraduates over the past six years. David has been active in Ottawa’s Workers’ History Museum as a collaborator, advisor and patron; he is a Life Member of Clare Hall, Cambridge and a Fellow of Britain’s Royal Historical Society.