Riley, Shannon Rose

Education

• Doctor of Philosophy. Univ Of Cal-Davis, 2006
• Master of Fine Arts, Studio Art and Critical Theory
  School Of The Museum Of Fine A, Massachusetts, United States, 1998
• Bachelor of Fine Arts, Sculpture
  Maine College of Art, Maine, United States, 1995

Bio

Shannon Rose Riley is Assistant Professor of Humanities and Coordinator of the Creative Arts Program at San José State University. She teaches courses in Humanities, Creative Arts, and American Studies, several of which are cross-listed between multiple departments including Theatre, English, and Music. She has a PhD in Performance Studies and Critical Theory from the University of California, Davis (2006), an MFA in Studio Art (Performance, Video, Installation) from Tufts University and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (1998), and a BFA in Sculpture and Art History from Maine College of Art (1995). She also studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, the University of Notre Dame, and the University of Colorado, Boulder.

Before coming to SJSU in 2008, Prof. Riley completed a two-year-long postdoctoral fellowship at the Center for Women's InterCultural Leadership at Saint Mary's College, Notre Dame, where she had joint appointment to the Department of Communication and Performance Studies and the Intercultural Studies Program. She also taught at the Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts. Her essays have been published in Theatre Topics, English Language Notes, Performing Arts Resources, and Baylor Journal of Theatre and Performance as well as in edited collections such as Kathy Acker and Transnationalism (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009) and Mapping Landscapes for Performance as Research: Scholarly Acts and Creative Cartographies (Palgrave, 2009), which she co-edited with Lynette Hunter. Her review of Marial Utset's A Cultural History of Cuba During the US Occupation, 1898-1902 (U North Carolina Press, 2011) is forthcoming in The Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era.

Prof. Riley is currently completing a manuscript titled Performing Race and Erasure: Cuba and Haiti in US Culture, 1898-1940, which examines the ways that Cuba and Haiti--both as signs and as sites--were crucial to the imaginative rethinking of race and nationhood in the US at the turn of the 20th century. She has presented on this project at numerous conferences, most recently at the 2009 American Society of Theatre Research conference. She has also begun research for a second book project, tentatively titled Crossing the Windward Passage: Race, Geography, Performance, and Resistance. She has presented papers on this work at the 2008 UC Berkeley conference on African and Afro-Caribbean Performance, the 2008 American Society of Theatre Research conference, the Black Geographies Panel at the 2010 Association of American Geographers (AAG) conference, and the 2010 American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA) conference. Dr. Riley has recently been awarded a San José State University RSCA Summer Pair Grant for 2012 in order to develop this project.

Prof. Riley continues to be a practicing artist. Her visual and performance works have been exhibited/staged internationally at numerous venues, including the ICA (Portland ME), Mobius (Boston), Randolph Street Gallery and Artemisia Gallery (Chicago), the Cushwa-Leighton Library (Notre Dame IN), and the Festival Nacional de Pequeño Formato (Santa Clara Cuba). She also continues to perform and record with the Chicago-based band, ONO. Most recent works include original soundtrack material for the 2010 film, Alice in Wonderland, by James Fotopoulos.

OTHER RECENT ACTIVITIES
• In the summer of 2009, Prof. Riley participated in a prestigious National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Summer Seminar for College and University Teachers entitled “Roots: African Dimensions of the History and Culture of the Americas (Through the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade)" at the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities.
• Prof. Riley travels regularly Cuba to continue her research.

Links

• Creative Arts Program Website
• James Fotopoulos, _Alice in Wonderland_ (2010)

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