Peggy Phelan

Peggy Phelan
Born	Margaret Phelan June 12, 1948
Nationality	American
Awards	2004 Guggenheim Fellowship for Theatre Arts
Website	Stanford University
Main interests	Art and feminism

Peggy Phelan is an American feminist scholar, one of the founders of Performance Studies International,^[1] and was chair of New York University's Department of Performance Studies from 1993 to 1996 and Stanford's Theatre and Performance Studies Department (then called the Drama Department) from 2007-2011. She is also the author of Unmarked (1993),^[2] Mourning Sex (1997)^[3] and Art and Feminism (2001).^[4] She wrote the influential essay on Pipilotti Rist for the Phaidon catalog on Rist. She co-edited Acting Out: Feminist Performances; and the Ends of Performance. She edited, Live Art in LA.

Phelan's work is primarily concerned with the investigation of performance as a live event. She argued that the ephemerality of performance is crucial to its force. While most of her initial work was rooted in feminist post-structuralism and psychoanalysis, her more recent work is concerned with media, photography, and visual arts. She has written on the selfie, and on Reagan and Warhol.

Awards

• 2004 Guggenheim Fellowship for Theatre Arts^[5]
• Getty Research Fellow 2004-2005
• Stanford Humanities Center, Fellow, 2011–12
• Australian National University Fellow

References

1. Performance Studies International (PSi): Past presidents & directors. psi-web.org.
2. Phelan, Peggy (1993). Unmarked: the politics of performance. London New York: Routledge. ISBN 9780415068222.
3. Phelan, Peggy (1997). Mourning sex: performing public memories. London New York: Routledge. ISBN 9780415147590.
4. Phelan, Peggy; Reckitt, Helena (2001). Art and feminism. London New York: Phaidon. ISBN 9780714847023.
5. "John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation: Peggy Pelan". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.

External links

• Profile page: Peggy Phelan Stanford University
• WorldCat
• Profile page: Peggy Phelan Stanford University