{"id":11,"date":"2010-07-12T19:48:36","date_gmt":"2010-07-12T19:48:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hub-dev.bates.edu\/american-studies\/?page_id=11"},"modified":"2019-11-05T10:20:44","modified_gmt":"2019-11-05T15:20:44","slug":"beasley-myron-m","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/american-studies\/faculty\/beasley-myron-m\/","title":{"rendered":"Beasley, Myron M. – Chair of American Studies"},"content":{"rendered":"
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About<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t

Myron Beasley, Ph.D. is Associate Professor of American Studies, he also serves on the committee of Gender and Sexuality Studies at Bates College. His ethnographic research includes exploring the intersection of cultural politics, material culture and social change. He has been awarded fellowships and grants by the Andy Warhol Foundation, the Whiting Foundation, the Mellon Foundation, National Endowment for the Humanities, and most recently the Ruth Landes Award from the Reed Foundation. His ethnographic writing about Africana Cultural Politics, Contemporary Art, Material Culture and cultural engagement has appeared in many academic journals including Text and Performance Quarterly, Gastronomica: The Journal of Food and Culture, The Journal of Poverty, Museum & Social Issues, The Journal of Curatorial Studies, Food and Foodways, and Performance Research. His food film\/installation ritual\/feast (of his ethnography is Brazil) has appeared in UMMI and Paris film festivals. His recent curatorial projects include The Ghetto Biennale (Haiti), CAAR Paris 7 (France), and Dak\u2019art (Senegal).<\/p>\n

Recent research projects:<\/span><\/p>\n

Performance, Art, and Politics in the African Diaspora: Necropolitics and the Black Body. Routledge Press 2023<\/a><\/p>\n

Beasley, M. (2022 in press)\u00a0Loving Repeating: Performance, Intimacy and Melancholia in the works of Dutes Miller and Stan Shellabarger<\/em>. Catalogue. Hyde Park Art Center: Chicago<\/p>\n

Beasley, M. (2021)\u00a0Nyugen E. Smith: A Lens of the past to envision a future<\/em><\/a>.\u00a0The Record<\/u>. Online art journal of Indigo Arts Alliance.<\/p>\n

Beasley, M. (2021)\u00a0Food is Food!: Vertamae Smart-Grosvenor and Vibration Cooking.\u00a0<\/em> Book Club of California Quarterly.<\/p>\n

Beasley, M. (2019)\u00a0Auspicious Behavior: The work of Chakaia Booker<\/em>. Catalogue. Pyramid Hill Sculpture Park & Museum.<\/p>\n

Beasley, M. (2019) Memorializing Malaga. In\u00a0Othered: Displaced from Malaga<\/em><\/a>. Catalogue. University of Southern Maine.<\/p>\n

Beasley, M. (2019)\u00a0Performing the Untold: Re.Past.Malaga<\/em><\/a>, Special Issue\u00a0Liminalities: The Journal of Performance <\/em>Studies.<\/em>15:2.<\/p>\n

Beasley, M. (2019) ED.\u00a0Re.Past.Malaga<\/em><\/a>,\u00a0Special Issue\u00a0Liminalities: The Journal of Performance\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <\/em>Studies.<\/em>15:2.<\/p>\n

Beasley, M. (2018)\u00a0\u201cRitual Insider\/Ritual Outsider: Gina Adams on Art & the Archive\u201d<\/a>\u00a0The Chart.\u00a0<\/em>Interview, 4:1, Fall 2018.<\/p>\n

Beasley, M. (2018)\u00a0Performing \u00a0Zora:\u00a0 Critical Ethnography, Digital<\/a> Sound and Not Forgetting. In Soundbox: Between Digital Humanities and Sound Studies.\u00a0<\/em>Duke U Press.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Beasley, M. (2018)\u00a0\u201cTending to the Haints of Malaga Island\u201d\u00a0The Chart<\/i>. Interviews, 3:2,<\/a>\u00a0Summer 2018.<\/p>\n

Performing Zora: Critical Ethnography, Sound and Doing the Techno-Digital Moves<\/a>. In Digital Sound Studies. <\/i>Duke U Press:2018<\/p>\n

Ritual Insider\/Ritual Outsider: Gina Adams on art & the archive<\/a>, The Chart<\/span>, Vol 4, No 1: Fall 2018.<\/p>\n

Building a community one dinner party at a time<\/i><\/a>, The Maine Trust Project<\/span>, November 15, 2018.<\/p>\n

Bates professor tells story of Malaga Island, including its dark chapter of forced exodus<\/i><\/a>, Portland Press Herald<\/span>, July 22, 2018<\/p>\n

Myron M. Beasley of Bates College is awarded $7000.00 from the Rabkin Foundation<\/a> to support his research for his forthcoming book\u00a0Disturbers of the Peace<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Myron M. Beasley engages with other art critics and artists about the 2018 Portland Museum of Art Biennial.\u00a0Interviews,\u00a0Reviews,\u00a0Vol. 3, No. 2: Spring 2018 .<\/a><\/p>\n

Print, Protest, Power<\/a>\u00a0<\/a><\/i>\u00a0curated by Myron M. Beasley, opens at Able Baker Contemporary.<\/p>\n

Beasley, M. (2017)\u00a0\u201cOut of the closet\u201d one Death\u2019s deliverance or \u201cIn the foodsteps of Diogene\u201d: Same-Sex Desire, \u00a0Archive and (Re)memory in Haiti. Women & Performance: A journal of feminist theory. 27:2.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

Beasley, M. (2017)\u00a0Performing Refuge\/Restoration: The role of libraries in the African American Community: Ferguson,Baltimore, and Dorchester.\u00a0 Performance Research 22:2<\/a>.<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n

Beasley, Myron (2016) Editor, On Contemplation, Liminalities: Journal of Performance Studies<\/em><\/a> 12:2.<\/p>\n

Beasley, Myron (2016) The Pink Tube & The Incorrigible Disturber of the Peace<\/a>, Liminalities: Journal of Performance Studies, 12:2<\/em><\/p>\n

Myron M. Beasley (2016), Installation Virtuelle Myron M. Beasley : The Adodi Project, Archives, and Performance<\/a>, \u00a9 2012 Quaderna, mis en ligne le 25 mars 2016, url permanente<\/p>\n

Myron M. Beasley curates Patience on a Monument<\/a> at the University of Texas, Austin from 2\/16-4\/16. Photos from the New Gallery opening exhibition.<\/a><\/p>\n

Grand Rue: Roads as Thoroughfares of Life<\/a> (Digital Sound Project)<\/p>\n

Beasley, M. (2014) The Moment of (Ecstatic) Truth in the Translator\u2019s Dance exhibit in Ethnographic Terminalia\u2014Bureau of Memories: Archives and Ephemera, American Anthropological Association<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Beasley, M. (2014) From Haiti: Gounda Gounda, The Ghetoo Biennale and the performance of possibility. EISE: The journal of art, literature and philosophy, 00 (1) 104-111.<\/a><\/p>\n

Beasley, M. (2014) Food, Community and Performance Course 2014<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Beasley, M. (2014) Editor. Journal of Povert<\/em>y-Special Issue; Intervention, Instigation, Interruption: Art, Activism and Social Policy, 18 (1).<\/a><\/p>\n

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Brazil<\/a>, critical ethnography<\/a>, cultural studies<\/a>, cultural studies<\/a>, curating<\/a>, curatorial studies<\/a>, death<\/a>, digital humanities<\/a>, food and culture<\/a>, Francophone<\/a>, gender and race<\/a>, Haiti<\/a>, material culture<\/a>, performance studies<\/a>, performance studies<\/a>, public humanities<\/a>, visual culture<\/a><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t

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