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Theatre and Performance Studies

Last updated July 7, 2026

Rising Stars

New and hot

Rising Stars Researchers

1
Ruchika Ranwa
Manipal Academy of Higher Education
2
Dorota Marsh
University of Lancashire
3
Elizabeth Moroney
Royal Shakespeare Company (United Kingdom)
4
Trevor Boffone
University of Houston
5
Royona Mitra
Brunel University of London
6
Gaana Jayagopalan
Indian Institute of Management Visakhapatnam
7
Corey Kai Nelson Schultz
University of Nottingham Ningbo China
8
Monika Gehlawat
University of Southern Mississippi
9
Trish Wells
University of Otago
10
Tetsuro Shigematsu
University of British Columbia

Rising Stars Papers

1
The politics of gatekeeping: respondents as gatekeepers and gatekeepers as respondents
Qualitative Research|2024
4 cit.
2
Deflated in shame and puffed up in pride: How affective practices matter for entrepreneuring
Human Relations|2025
2 cit.
3
Style in the Face of Sorrow
James Baldwin Review|2024
0 cit.
4
Marketing a (high school) musical on TikTok
Studies in Musical Theatre|2024
0 cit.
5
Fiction as Signature Pedagogy: Narrative Inquiry for Business Communication Pedagogy
Business and Professional Communication Quarterly|2025
0 cit.
6
Book review: Kotiganahalli Ramaiah, <i>Let Polly Thrive: Yaane Yaare Koogadali (May Anyone Shout as They Please)</i>
Contemporary Voice of Dalit|2025
0 cit.
7
Remembering Barbara, learning from Professor Czarniawska
puntOorg International Journal|2026
0 cit.
8
Reconfiguration of Kalbeliya dance in neoliberal economy: Negotiating traditions, tourism and (non)recognition
The Sociological Review|2026
0 cit.
9
Glitching with the Anthropocene: An aesthetic-artistic experience as an alternative mode of knowing
Edge Hill University Research Information Repository (Edge Hill University)|2025
0 cit.
10
Beyond the fixed body: Entrepreneur’s bodily enactments and entrepreneuring
Edge Hill University Research Information Repository (Edge Hill University)|2025
0 cit.

Emerging Leaders

Gaining momentum

Emerging Leaders Researchers

1
Erene Kaptani
University of Greenwich
2
Esther Sayers
Universidad de Londres
3
Julie Gilbert
Centres Intégré Universitaires de Santé et de Services Sociaux
4
Lakshmi Padmanabhan
Dartmouth College
5
Neta Alexander
Colgate University
6
Julia Gallagher
School of International Relations
7
J. Kameron Carter
Southeastern University
8
Beatriz Peña Dix
Universidad de Los Andes
9
J Woollard
University of Tasmania
10
Brooke Charlebois
University of Toronto

Emerging Leaders Papers

1
Scores
Film Quarterly|2022
56 cit.
2
A research trajectory for difficult times: decentring language and intercultural communication
Language and Intercultural Communication|2022
44 cit.
3
Skateboarding, Time and Ethics: An Auto Ethnographic Adventure of Motherhood and Risk
Sport Ethics and Philosophy|2023
15 cit.
4
Skateparks as communities of care: the role of skateboarding in girls’ and non-binary youth’s mental health recovery during lockdown
Pedagogy Culture and Society|2023
14 cit.
5
The Weather in Tsai: Slow Cinema and Slow Violence
Cultural Critique|2024
8 cit.
6
Invented Modernisms: Getting to Grips with Modernity in Three African State Buildings
Curator The Museum Journal|2022
4 cit.
7
The histories buildings tell: aesthetic and popular readings of state meaning in Ethiopia
Journal of Eastern African Studies|2022
3 cit.
8
A generative refusal: body inclusive methods with racialized women in knowledge creation
Fennia|2023
3 cit.
9
‘Speaking proper French’: citizen bids for state recognition in Chad and Côte d’Ivoire
Global Discourse|2024
3 cit.
10
Activating concrete: participatory design for DIY skate dots. City Mill Skate’s practice-based methodology at the UCL east campus
CoDesign|2025
2 cit.

Current Senior Leaders

Established & currently active

Current Senior Leaders Researchers

1
Richard Schechner
Tisch Hospital
2
Peter Brooks
The University of Melbourne
3
John Hassard
Queen Mary University of London
4
John-David C Dewsbury
University of Bristol
5
Steven S. Taylor
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
6
Loren Kruger
University of Chicago
7
William Peterson
Monash University
8
David Savran
The Graduate Center, CUNY
9
Helen Gilbert
University of the West of England
10
Arthur P. Bochner
University of South Florida

Current Senior Leaders Papers

1
Actor Network Theory and After
Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews|2001
3.3k cit.
2
Autoethnography: An Overview
Social Science Open Access Repository (GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences)|2010
3k cit.
3
Autoethnography, Personal Narrative, Reflexivity: Researcher as Subject
Digital Commons - University of South Florida (University of South Florida)|2000
2.4k cit.
4
Performance Studies: An Introduction
World Literature Today|2003
2.3k cit.
5
The Melodramatic Imagination: Balzac, Henry James, Melodrama, and the Mode of Excess.
American Literature|1985
912 cit.
6
Composing Ethnography: Alternative Forms of Qualitative Writing.
Social Forces|1999
777 cit.
7
Analyzing Analytic Autoethnography
Journal of Contemporary Ethnography|2006
736 cit.
8
Dead Geographies—And How to Make Them Live
Environment and Planning D Society and Space|2000
503 cit.
9
Criteria Against Ourselves
Qualitative Inquiry|2000
495 cit.
10
The Melodramatic Imagination: Balzac, Henry James, Melodrama, and the Mode of Excess
The Modern Language Review|1979
453 cit.

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