The Cambridge Guide to Mixed Methods Research for Theatre and Performance Studies

Tracy C. Davis is Barber Professor of Performing Arts at Northwestern University. She has published over a hundred articles in arts, humanities, and social sciences journals; has edited and authored a dozen monographs on theatre history and historiography, the history of the book, and cultural studies; and has wide experience in editing book series and advising doctoral students. Paul Rae is Professor of Theatre Studies and Head of the School of Culture and Communications at the University of Melbourne. He is the author of Theatre & Human Rights (2009) and Real Theatre (2019), and a former editor of the journal Theatre Research International. He researches and publishes widely on contemporary theatre and on the performance cultures of the Asia-Pacific region.

'This collection feels like a masterclass with the leading teachers of research methods in our field. It gathers contributions from an international group of distinguished scholars, assembling them in a dynamic organizational structure.' Shannon Jackson, University of California, Berkeley

• List of figures; List of tables; List of contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction: mix and stir Tracy C. Davis; Part I. Planning: 1. Difference Brandi Wilkins Catanese, Nicola Mārie Hyland and Ben Spatz; 2. Planning a research project: early steps Maggie B. Gale; 3. Interdisciplinary acts: learning about theatre from the social sciences Michael McKinnie; 4. Mixing methods in a multi-sited, collaborative project: researching migration, working with variation Emine Fişek; 5. Ethics Natalie Alvarez and Patrick Anderson; Part II. Doing: 6. You're already a digital humanist: why aren't you thinking like one? Derek Miller; 7. Analyzing immersive performance through lived bricolage Julia M. Ritter; 8. Talking theatre in an oral culture: audience research in Ghana Awo Mana Asiedu; 9. Painful fieldwork? Radical empiricism and ritual performance in the Philippines Julius Bautista; 10. Fieldwork as method in theatre and performance studies Jonas Tinius; Part III. Interpreting: 11. Archives and embodiments Adrian Curtin, Prarthana Purkayastha and meLê yamomo; 12. Methods to research marginalized early-modern practices: Más Saber Baylar Anke Charton; 13. Taking your time: research in learning-disabled theatre Tony McCaffrey; 14. Not here for the disciplines: researching with and for the Pacific Katerina Teaiwa; 15. Complexity Ruthie Abeliovich, Leo Cabranes-Grant and Soo Ryon Yoon; Conclusion: the aesthetics of performance research: appearance, conduct, design Paul Rae; Index.