Craig Gingrich-Philbrook is Professor of Communication Studies at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, USA. His interests include postmodern performance, queer performance and theory, performance in mediated environments, philosophy of communication, and communication theory.Jake Simmons is Associate Dean of the Judith Enyeart Reynolds College of Arts and Letters and Associate Professor of Communication at Missouri State University, USA. His research focuses on new materialist approaches to performative writing, autoethnography, and staging practices. He is editor of Text and Performance Quarterly (2022-2024).

• Introduction: Performance, Performativity, Research, Method Craig Gingrich-Philbrook and Jake Simmons Section I: Means of Making1. Adaptation of Literature as Method: Text, Politics, and Representation Matthew Spangler and Humaira Ghilzai2. Methods on My Mind in the Doing of Performance and Performed Ethnography D. Soyini Madison 3. A Critical Method for Performing Popular Texts: The Adventures of Little Red Riding Hood as Case Study Tracy Stephenson Shaffer 4. Personal Narrative Performance Research: The Visceral, Collaborative, and Susceptible Exploration of the Stories We Tell Others Julie-Ann Scott-Pollock Section II: Researching Performance Cultures5. Disability and PerformanceDonna Marie Nudd 6. Expanding Frames of Analysis in Stand-up ComedyDustin Goltz7. The Ethnography of Poetry: Or, Slamming Methods Javon Johnson 8. Performance Space and the Architecture of Experience Nathan Stucky9. Beyond the Bounds of the Classroom: Facilitating Student’s Public PerformancesCharles ParrottSection III: Researching Performers/Performers Researching10. Mistranslation as Method in Artistic Research Alys Longley 11. Performative Autoethnography: A Matterphor of Things Tami Spry12. Race and Social Justice: Performing the Radical ImaginationAmber Johnson13. Critical/Performance Ethnography, Oral History Performance, and Listening: Notes on Methods for Living Research Daniel B. Coleman14. The Hero’s Journey: Creating a Theatre/Storytelling Performance Inspired by the Work of Joseph CampbellJohn S. GentileSection IV: Emerging and Enduring Contexts15. Posthumanist Performance Studies: Four Practical AssertionsTravis Brisini16. TourismRebecca Walker17. Performance, Technologies, Ontologies: The Video Performance Does Not Stand AloneLyndsay Michalik Gratch18. Navigating Place as a Performance Studies Researcher: Waypoints and BreadcrumbsShauna M. MacDonaldConclusion: Observations on Performance Studies Research and MethodsJake Simmons

Craig Gingrich-Philbrook is Professor of Communication Studies at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, USA. His interests include postmodern performance, queer performance and theory, performance in mediated environments, philosophy of communication, and communication theory.Jake Simmons is Associate Dean of the Judith Enyeart Reynolds College of Arts and Letters and Associate Professor of Communication at Missouri State University, USA. His research focuses on new materialist approaches to performative writing, autoethnography, and staging practices. He is editor of Text and Performance Quarterly (2022-2024).

• Introduction: Performance, Performativity, Research, Method Craig Gingrich-Philbrook and Jake Simmons Section I: Means of Making1. Adaptation of Literature as Method: Text, Politics, and Representation Matthew Spangler and Humaira Ghilzai2. Methods on My Mind in the Doing of Performance and Performed Ethnography D. Soyini Madison 3. A Critical Method for Performing Popular Texts: The Adventures of Little Red Riding Hood as Case Study Tracy Stephenson Shaffer 4. Personal Narrative Performance Research: The Visceral, Collaborative, and Susceptible Exploration of the Stories We Tell Others Julie-Ann Scott-Pollock Section II: Researching Performance Cultures5. Disability and PerformanceDonna Marie Nudd 6. Expanding Frames of Analysis in Stand-up ComedyDustin Goltz7. The Ethnography of Poetry: Or, Slamming Methods Javon Johnson 8. Performance Space and the Architecture of Experience Nathan Stucky9. Beyond the Bounds of the Classroom: Facilitating Student’s Public PerformancesCharles ParrottSection III: Researching Performers/Performers Researching10. Mistranslation as Method in Artistic Research Alys Longley 11. Performative Autoethnography: A Matterphor of Things Tami Spry12. Race and Social Justice: Performing the Radical ImaginationAmber Johnson13. Critical/Performance Ethnography, Oral History Performance, and Listening: Notes on Methods for Living Research Daniel B. Coleman14. The Hero’s Journey: Creating a Theatre/Storytelling Performance Inspired by the Work of Joseph CampbellJohn S. GentileSection IV: Emerging and Enduring Contexts15. Posthumanist Performance Studies: Four Practical AssertionsTravis Brisini16. TourismRebecca Walker17. Performance, Technologies, Ontologies: The Video Performance Does Not Stand AloneLyndsay Michalik Gratch18. Navigating Place as a Performance Studies Researcher: Waypoints and BreadcrumbsShauna M. MacDonaldConclusion: Observations on Performance Studies Research and MethodsJake Simmons

Craig Gingrich-Philbrook is Professor of Communication Studies at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, USA. His interests include postmodern performance, queer performance and theory, performance in mediated environments, philosophy of communication, and communication theory.Jake Simmons is Associate Dean of the Judith Enyeart Reynolds College of Arts and Letters and Associate Professor of Communication at Missouri State University, USA. His research focuses on new materialist approaches to performative writing, autoethnography, and staging practices. He is editor of Text and Performance Quarterly (2022-2024).

• Introduction: Performance, Performativity, Research, Method Craig Gingrich-Philbrook and Jake Simmons Section I: Means of Making1. Adaptation of Literature as Method: Text, Politics, and Representation Matthew Spangler and Humaira Ghilzai2. Methods on My Mind in the Doing of Performance and Performed Ethnography D. Soyini Madison 3. A Critical Method for Performing Popular Texts: The Adventures of Little Red Riding Hood as Case Study Tracy Stephenson Shaffer 4. Personal Narrative Performance Research: The Visceral, Collaborative, and Susceptible Exploration of the Stories We Tell Others Julie-Ann Scott-Pollock Section II: Researching Performance Cultures5. Disability and PerformanceDonna Marie Nudd 6. Expanding Frames of Analysis in Stand-up ComedyDustin Goltz7. The Ethnography of Poetry: Or, Slamming Methods Javon Johnson 8. Performance Space and the Architecture of Experience Nathan Stucky9. Beyond the Bounds of the Classroom: Facilitating Student’s Public PerformancesCharles ParrottSection III: Researching Performers/Performers Researching10. Mistranslation as Method in Artistic Research Alys Longley 11. Performative Autoethnography: A Matterphor of Things Tami Spry12. Race and Social Justice: Performing the Radical ImaginationAmber Johnson13. Critical/Performance Ethnography, Oral History Performance, and Listening: Notes on Methods for Living Research Daniel B. Coleman14. The Hero’s Journey: Creating a Theatre/Storytelling Performance Inspired by the Work of Joseph CampbellJohn S. GentileSection IV: Emerging and Enduring Contexts15. Posthumanist Performance Studies: Four Practical AssertionsTravis Brisini16. TourismRebecca Walker17. Performance, Technologies, Ontologies: The Video Performance Does Not Stand AloneLyndsay Michalik Gratch18. Navigating Place as a Performance Studies Researcher: Waypoints and BreadcrumbsShauna M. MacDonaldConclusion: Observations on Performance Studies Research and MethodsJake Simmons