Five Years Out Panel for Performance Studies

Session Submission Type: Panel Discussion

Abstract

This panel will create a collaborative history of the discipline of Oral Interpretation and Performance Studies. A roundtable discussion of the division's history will begin with a short rendition of the 1916 "great debate" (David Williams, 1975) of "interpretation" versus "impersonation." As Soyini Madison and Judith Hamera note in The Sage Handbook of Performance Studies, the debate began when pioneer speech professor Maud May Babcock delivered a paper, later published in the Quarterly Journal of Public Speaking, about definitions of oral interpretation. Rollo Anson Talcott responded with his argument about four degrees of literary performance. This performance will show an important historical moment in the history of oral interpretation and NCA.

Sub Unit

• Five Years Out Programs

Cosponsor

• NCA First Vice President

Presenters

• Heidi Rose, Villanova University

• Carol Stern, Northwestern University

• Bruce Henderson, Ithaca College

• Timothy Gura, Brooklyn College, CUNY

• E. Patrick Johnson, Northwestern University

• Joanne Gilbert, Alma College

• John Anderson, Emerson College

• Jessica Tomell-Presto, DePaul University

• Nathan Stucky, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale

• Scott Dillard, Georgia College & State University

• Gary Balfantz, Lake Superior State Univ

• Jonathan Gray, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale

• Craig Gingrich-Philbrook, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale

• Amy Darnell, Columbia College

• Dacia Charlesworth, Indiana University-Purdue University, Fort Wayne

• Mindy Fenske, University of South Carolina

• Matt Saltzberg, University of Missouri, Columbia

Session Organizer

• M. Heather Carver, University of Missouri, Columbia