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Guest Critics
In the spirit of interdisciplinarity, the faculty has invited five distinguished colleagues from other areas of inquiry to give a short presentation on their work or field, followed by three student critiques. Students must sign up for one critique with the guest critic of their choice on a first-come, first-served basis during the second class meeting. The guest critics are Craig Gingrich-Philbrook, Robbie Lieberman, Beth Lordan, Segun Ojewuyi, and Ken Stikkers.
Craig Gingrich-Philbrook, Associate Professor, Performance Studies
Craig Gingrich-Philbrook is an Associate Professor of Performance Studies in the Speech Communication Department. His teaching and research interests include queer theory, phenomenology, continental philosophy, psychoanalysis, autobiographical performance, performance art, and performance in mediated environments. As a performance artist working in queer autobiographical performance, he has appeared in several performance art and university venues including SUSHI (San Diego), Dixon Place (NYC), and The Neuberger Museum of Art (SUNY Purchase). He has served as chair of the National Communication Association's Performance Studies Division as well as its task force on the evaluation of creative activity for purposes of tenure and promotion. He has served two terms as editor of the journal Text and Performance Quarterly's "Performance in Review" section and currently serves on its editorial board and that of Liminalities: A Journal of Performance Studies that publishes online. His full length show “Why Not Rule the World -or- The Apocalypse of Binky” opens in the Kleinau Theatre in April.
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Video from Performance of "Flag"
Song of the Earmice (with Violet Juno)
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Gingrich-Philbrook, Craig. “The Personal and Political in Solo Performance.” Text and Performance Quarterly 20 (2000): vii-x.
Gingrich-Philbrook, Craig. “Queer Performance.” Journal of Homosexuality. 45.2/3/4 (2003): 353-56.
Gingrich-Philbrook, Craig. “Taking Pictures: Rage and Forgiveness in Autoperformance from the Family Archive.” Theatre Annual 60 (2007): 71-78.
Robbie Lieberman, Professor, History
Robbie Lieberman received her Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in 1984, and came to SIUC in 1991. A specialist in recent U.S. history, her particular areas of interest include war and peace, social movements, and music. She is the author of My Song Is My Weapon: People's Songs, American Communism, and The Politics of Culture, 1930-1950 (1989); The Strangest Dream: Communism, Anti-Communism, and the American Peace Movement, 1945-1963 (2000); and Prairie Power: Voices of 1960s Midwestern Student Protest (2004). Her current project focuses on the relationship between civil rights and peace movements in the early cold war years. Professor Lieberman has also distinguished herself by being named "Outstanding Faculty Member in the University Core Curriculum" in 1999, Outstanding Teacher in the College of Liberal Arts in 2001, winner of the SIUC Women of Distinction Award in 2003, given for demonstrated commitment to diversity, and the Phi Kappa Phi Outstanding Scholar Award in 2004.
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Robbie Lieberman. "Communism, Peace Activism, and Civil Liberties: From the Waldorf Conference to the Peekskill Riot." The Journal of American Culture, Volume 18 Number 3, 1995, pp. 59–65.
Robbie Lieberman, David Cochran. "'We Closed Down the Damn School': The Party Culture and Student Protest at Southern Illinois University During the Vietnam War Era." Peace & Change, Volume 26 Number 3, 2001, pp. 316–331.
Beth Lordan, Professor, Creative Writing
Beth Lordan is the author of the novel August Heat, the short-story collection And Both Shall Row, and the novel-in-stories But Come Ye Back. Her short fiction has appeared in The Best of American Short Stories 2002, the Atlantic Monthly, and Gettysburg Review, as well as on NPR's Selected Shorts. The recipient of a creative writing fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, as well as an O. Henry Award for her short fiction, Lordan teaches fiction writing and directs Irish & Irish Immigration Studies at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. She lives in Carbondale, Illinois, with her husband.
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Lordan, Beth. Digging. The Atlantic Monthly, September 2001.
Lordan, Beth. Penumbra. The Atlantic Monthly, February 2002.
Segun Ojewuyi, Assistant Professor, Theater
Professor Ojewuyi teaches Directing and Acting. His other teaching interests are in African, African American Theater. Over a 20-year international directing career, he has worked in major theaters in Europe, the United States and Africa. He has served as visiting Director at the Birmingham Repertory Theater and Liverpool Playhouse in England, worked at the Syracuse Stage, the Yale Repertory, and the Pittsburg Public Theater, where he assisted Marion McClinton on the world premier of King Hedley II by August Wilson and toured productions to the Bauhaus and Mozart Hall in Germany. He has taught at the University of Lagos, Nigeria; the Yale University undergraduate Theater studies, the Yale Special Summer acting program and at Rowan University in Glassboro, New Jersey. A Fellow of the Salzburg Seminar, he has published in peer-reviewed journals such as Performance Research, the Yale Theater Journal and The Glendora Review of African Arts and Letters. He holds an MA in Theater Arts - Criticism from the University of Ibadan, Nigeria and an MFA in Directing from Yale University. A member of the Black Theater Network, ATHE, the Actors Equity and the National Association of Nigerian Theater Arts Practitioners, he has also acted and directed for Television and Radio.
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Ojewuyi, Segun. Theater in the Throes of Panic. Glendora Review: African Quarterly on the Arts, Volume 3 Number 2, 2001, pp. 88-97.
Ojewuyi, Olusegun. "Transnationality and Directing: The Burden of Race, Culture and Imagination." Departures - Performance Research, Volume 6, Number 1, 2001.
Ken Stikkers, Professor, Philosophy
Ken Stikkers earned his B.A. degree in Social Science, Secondary Education from DePaul University, an M.A. in American Studies, specializing in African American history, from the University of Minnesota, and an M.A. and Ph.D. (1982) in Philosophy, also from DePaul University. After teaching 16 years at Seattle University, and chairing the Department of Philosophy there, he joined SIUC's Department of Philosophy as Professor and its Chair in 1997. His research focuses on the historical and thematic relations between American and European philosophies and the philosophy of the social sciences, especially economics. He has published and lectured, both in the U.S. and Europe, on these topics, and his books include one on Max Scheler's sociology of knowledge and two on the philosophy of economics. He currently is completing a manuscript on the influence of Puritanism upon American philosophy, especially America's political thinking. He regularly teaches courses on the history of American philosophy (he's especially interested in William James), figures in 20th century European philosophy, such as Scheler, Foucault, and Gadamer, social and political philosophy, and African American philosophy. Next year he will offer a seminar on the history of American women philosophers.
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Stikkers, Kenneth W. "Royce and Gadamer on Interpretation as the Constitution of Community." The Journal of Speculative Philosophy, Volume 15, Number 1, 2001 (New Series), pp. 14-19.
Stikkers, Kenneth W. "Logics of Similitude and Logics of Difference in American and Contemporary Continental Philosophy." The Journal of Speculative Philosophy, Volume 20, Number 2, 2006 (New Series), pp. 117-123.