Ramón Rivera-Servera

Ramón Rivera-Servera is an Assistant Professor in the department of Performance Studies. His research and teaching focuses on contemporary Latina/o American public cultures with special emphasis on the ways categories of race, gender and sexuality are negotiated in the process of migration. He is currently working on a book manuscript, Grassroots Globalizations: Queer Sexualities and the Performance of Latinidad, which examines contemporary relationships between performance and politics among Latina/o queer communities in the U.S. He has been awarded research support from the Smithsonian Institution towards the development of his second book project: Exhibiting Performance: Race, Museums, and the Live Event which looks at the collection and exhibition of performance at museums and cultural heritage sites throughout North America and the Caribbean through a critical race theory lens. Dr. Rivera-Servera’s writings and reviews on Latina/o performance have appeared in several journals and edited collections, including Theatre Journal, TDR, Caribbean Dance From Abakuá to Zouk: How Movement Becomes Identity (Susana Sloat ed., 2003) and Caras Vemos, Corazones No Sabemos: The Human Landscape of Mexican Migration to the United States (2006). Dr. Rivera-Servera serves on the editorial board of Theatre Topics and just completed co-editing a full year special issue of Ollantay Theatre Magazine on Latina/o queer performance. He serves in the Executive Committee of the American Society for Theatre Research and is a member of the Research and Publications Committee of the Association for Theatre in Higher Education.

Student Respondent:
Chloe Johnston

Responding to:
Nadine George-Graves

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