Biography
Major Research Fields
Dance Studies from the early modern to modernity; historical and contemporary performance studies, literatures of the performing arts (choreographic poetics); the politics of theatricality in seventeenth-century French court ballet, seventeenth-century French dramatic literature; critical theories of performance; dance and visual culture, dance and politics
Courses Taught
Number | Name | Level |
|---|---|---|
DANC 8841 | Apprenticeship in Dance | Graduate |
DANC 9800 | Special Topics in Dance | Graduate |
DANC 9804 | Neoclassicism and the Baroque Revival in Twentieth-Century Dance and Culture | Graduate |
DANC 9883 | Dir Study in Dance Research | Graduate |
Selected Publications
Recent
Franko, M. (2017). Serge Lifar and the Question of Collaboration with the German Authorities under the Occupation of Paris (19401949). Dance Research, 35(2), 218-257. doi: 10.3366/drs.2017.0203.
Matthews, J. (2022). The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Reenactment. Array. Oxford University Press.
Matthews, J. (2022). Dance as Text: Ideologies of the Baroque Body, Revised Edition. Taylor & Francis.
Matthews, J. (2022). The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Reenactment. Array. Oxford University Press.
Matthews, J. (2022). Dance as Text: Ideologies of the Baroque Body, Revised Edition. Taylor & Francis.
Franko, M. (2022). La danse et le politique. Des états d’exception. Recherches En Danse. Association des chercheurs en danse.
Franko, M. (2022). The Conduct of Contemplation and the Gestural Ethics of Interpretation in Walter Benjamin’s" Epistemo-Critical Prologue." Performance Philosophy, 3(1), 92-107.