Performance

Ronald J. Pelias is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Speech Communication at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale. He is the author of numerous books on performance studies and performance methodologies, including Performance Studies: The Interpretation of Aesthetic Texts, Second Edition (Kendall Hunt 2007), Writing Performance: Poeticizing the Researcher's Body (Southern Illinois University Press, 1999), A Methodology of the Heart: Evoking Academic and Daily Life (AltaMira, 2004), and Leaning: A Poetics of Personal Relations (Left Coast 2011). In 2000, he received the Lilla A. Heston Award for Outstanding Scholarship in Interpretation and Performance Studies from the National Communication Association. In addition to numerous published articles and book chapters, he also publishes performance texts and poetry.

• Beginnings; A Appreciation; B Becoming; C Concealment; D Devising; E Empathy; F Figure; G Generative; H Holy; I Imagination; J; K Knots; L Language; M; N Naming; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z; Addendum; Appendix: Entries by Subject; References; Author's Index; About the Author;