Dr. Patricia Herrera
Assistant Professor of Theatre
203 Booker Hall of Music Patricia Herrera’s teaching and research focus on 20th century performance of the Americas with an emphasis on social justice, identity politics, and transnationalism. She is the Secretary for the Latino Focus Group of the Association for Theatre in Higher Education. She is currently working on her book manuscript tentatively entitled Nuyoriqueñas In the House: Staging Identity, Performing Community, which examines Nuyorican feminist performance activism in New York City over the past half-century. In addition to her academic work, she is the co-founder and co-director of the Rubí Theater Company in New York City, an intergenerational ensemble that produces original plays throughout the metropolitan area and conducts performance workshops in schools and theater festivals. For the past five years the group has appeared on Dan Zanes's Nueva York (2008), Catch That Train (2006 Grammy Award Winning CD for Best Children’s Musical Album), House Party (2003), and Night Time (2002), in which she was a lyricist and rapper.
Office: (804) 287-6352
Fax: (804) 287-1841
http://facultystaff.richmond.edu/~pherrera/
Research:
Theatre as Social Change, 20th Century Performance of the Americas, Solo Performance, Hip Hop Studies
Race, Class, Gender, and Sexualities
Visual Art, Theatre, Music, and Performance
Latina Feminisms, Latina Health, and Feminist Theory
Education:
Ph.D., Graduate Center, City University of New York
B.A., Dartmouth College
Selected Publications:
Book Chapter
“Guambra, Fiera, Karichina: The Pedagogy of Redefining Latina Health,” An Anthology in Chicana/Latina Epistemology, eds. Dolores Delgado Bernal, C. Alejandra Elenes, Francisca E Godinez, and Sofia Villenas, State University of New York Press, 2006.
The book was awarded the AESA Critics’ Choice Award 2006.
Journal Review
“Minotaur or The King's Bull,” Performance Review, Theatre Journal, March 2000.
Manuscripts Under Review
“Sandra María Esteves Conjures the Spirits: Narrating Nuyorican Identity through Spirituality,” journal article, under review, Latin American Theatre Review, “Special Issue on US Latina/o Theater and Performance,” June 2009.
“Behind the Blueface Mask: Nilaja Sun’s Black and Blue,” journal article, resubmitting for approval, African American Review, October 2009.
Works in Progress
“From Los Angeles to Nueva York: Making Comunidad in Culture Clash’s Nuyorican Stories,” journal article, submitting to Modern Drama, April 2009.
Nuyoriqueñas In the House: Staging Identity, Performing Community, book manuscript.
Academic and Professional Activities:
| 2009-present: | Latino/a Focus Group, ATHE Conference Planner | |
| Advisory Board Member of Chicana/Latina Studies: the Journal of Mujeres Activas en Letras Cambio Social (MALCS) | ||
| 2008-2009: | Baker-Berry Library Exhibit Coordinator, “Latinos and Latinas at Dartmouth: Community, Culture, and Scholarship,” September-November. | |
| Event Organizer, “Voices: The Dartmouth Theater Visiting Artist Program,” Dartmouth College, Fall 2008. Raised supplementary funds to bring Pop Master Fabel and Universes. | ||
| Event Organizer, “Latino On Stage Series,” Dartmouth College, February-May. | ||
| 2007-2008: | Secretary, Latino Focus Group, ATHE. |
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| Member-At-Large, Women and Theatre Program, ATHE. |
Awards:
| 2009-2010: | National Center for Institutional Diversity Exemplary Diversity Scholar, University of Michigan | |
| 2007-2009: | Research Assistant Fellowship, Dartmouth College | |
| Provost’s Academic Diversity Postdoctoral Fellowship, Cornell University (declined) | ||
| Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellowship, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (declined) | ||
| 2006-2007: | César Chavéz Dissertation Fellowship at Dartmouth College |
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| 2005-2006: | M.A.G.N.E.T Dissertation Fellowship, CUNY | |
| 2003-2006: | Writing Fellowship, CUNY | |
| 2005-2006: | Graduate Teaching Fellowship, CUNY |
