T. Nikki Cesare Schotzko

Faculty

Associate Professor, Centre for Drama, Theatre & Performance Studies

cesare.schotzko@utoronto.ca

UC E101
15 King's College Circle
Campus: St. George

• BA, Oberlin College
• BMus, Oberlin Conservatory
• MA, New York University
• MMus, The Hartt School
• PhD, New York University

• Performance art
• Experimental performance and avant-garde theatre
• Music-theatre
• Intermedial performance
• Feminism and phenomenology
• Intersections with popular culture

Book

• Learning How to Fall: Art and Culture after September 11. London: Routledge, 2015.

Chapters in Edited Collections

• "'How Were We to Know We Were Happy?’: Fairy-Tale (Fr)antics and Margaret Atwood’s Fickle Feminism." In Women in Popular Culture in Canada, edited by Laine Zisman Newman. Toronto: Women's Press, Canadian Scholars' Press, 2020.
• "Compassionate Acts: Performance as Radical Care." In The Methuen Drama Companion to Performance Art, edited by Bertie Ferdman and Jovana Stokic. New York: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020.
• "'The Death of Performance Art!': Performing Performance Art Documentation." In Canadian Performance Histories and Historiographies, edited by Heather Davis-Fisch. Toronto: Playwrights Canada Press, 2017.

Edited Journal Issues

• The Other 'D': Locating Dance in Drama, Theatre, and Performance Studies, coedited with Seika Boye, Heather Fitzsimmons Frey, and Evadne Kelly. Performance Matters, Forum, vol.  2, no. 2 (2016).
• Performing Products: When Acting Up Is Selling Out, coedited with Didier Morelli and Isabel Stowell-Caplan. Canadian Theatre Review, vol. 162 (2015).

Articles

• "Message Send Failure: Site-Unspecificity in Plant Theater’s Dreams of Riley’s Friends; or, Why Won’t Riley Respond to My Texts?" TDR,  vol.60, no. 3 (2016).
• "'Haven’t Got Time for the Pain': The State and Stakes of Performance Art 2.0." TRiC, vol. 36, no. 1 (2015).