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Travis Brisini (Ph.D., 海角社区) is a professional-in-residence in the Department of Communication Studies. His post-qualitative research interests include performance theory and methodology, autoethnographic and performative writing, the ontological turn (posthumanism, new materialism, neo-vitalism, etc.), multispecies studies, bioregionalism, new thalassology, and non-human performance. His creative work blends the physical sciences with contemporary aesthetics and experimental writing to produce performances that interrogate the profound, productive, and possibly tenuous relationships between humans, nonhumans, and the material world. His work has been published in a variety of journals and books, including Text and Performance Quarterly, The Journal of Autoethnography, and Women & Language.

Brisini currently serves as an Associate Editor of Text and Performance Quarterly, editing the 鈥淵ear in Books鈥� (2019-2024) and the 鈥淧erformance Space鈥� (2022-2024).

CMST 4142 鈥� Selected Topics in Performance Studies (Environmental Performance)
CMST 4141 鈥� Analysis and Performance of Narrative (Storytelling: Form, Brand, Identity)
CMST 3900 鈥� Creative Collaboration
CMST 3041 鈥� Performance and Everyday Life
CMST 3040 鈥� Performance Composition
CMST 2060 鈥� Public Speaking
HNRS 2020 鈥� Foundations of Civic and Community Engagement
CMST 2040 - Introduction to Performing Literature*

*Brisini serve as the Course Director for CMST 2040

Outstanding Paper in Performance Studies: 鈥淧hytomorphizing Performance鈥� (Central State Communication Association: Performance Studies and Autoethnography Interest Group - 2021)

Top Competitive Paper in Performance Studies: 鈥淢apping the 鈥楴aturecultural Turn鈥� in Performance Studies (National Communication Association: Performance Studies Division 鈥� 2020)

Cynthia Finch Award for Teaching Excellence in Communication Arts and Sciences (Penn State University 2017-2018)

Articles

Brisini, Travis. 鈥淢apping the 鈥楴aturecultural Turn鈥� in Performance Studies.鈥� Text and Performance
Quarterly, vol. 41, no. 1-2, 2021, pp. 1-48. [lead article]

Simmons, Jake, and Travis Brisini. 鈥淧erformance Studies in Communication.鈥�
Text and Performance Quarterly vol. 40, no. 1, 2020, pp. 1-48. [lead article]

Brisini, Travis. 鈥淭he Laughter Unto Death: Hillary Clinton, Feminine Laughter, and a Cannibal
Witch Conspiracy.鈥� Women & Language vol 42, 2019, no. 2, pp. 203-226.

--. 鈥淭he Mystical and the Mundane: The Human/Animal Distinction in Animal
Parade.鈥� Text and Performance Quarterly vol. 39, no. 2, 2019, pp. 173-175.

--. 鈥淧hytomorphizing Performance: Plant Performance in an Expanded Field鈥� Text
and Performance Quarterly, vol. 39, no.1, 2019, pp. 3-2. [lead article]

--. 鈥淧recarity Afoot: Material Performatives as Evolutionary Relations Across DeepTime.鈥� Text and Performance Quarterly, vol. 38, no. 1, pp. 1-17. doi:10.1080/10462937.2018.1457175 [lead article]

Book Chapters

Brisini, Travis. 鈥淧osthumanism and Performance.鈥� The Routledge Handbook of Performance Studies Research Methods, edited by Craig Gingrich-Philbrook and Jake Simmons. Routledge, 2022.

Brisini, Travis, and Jake Simmons. 鈥淧osthumanist Autoethnography.鈥� Handbook of
Autoethnography, 2nd ed, edited by Carolyn Ellis, Stacy Holman Jones, and Tony Adams. Routledge, 2021.