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EDUCATION
1994 New York University, Ph.D, Performance Studies, Graduate School of Arts
and Sciences. Dissertation: Mikhail Bakhtin and Performance.
1971 Ohio University, M.A. English.
1971 Oxford University, Trinity College (Graduate Courses).
1970 Ohio University: B.A. Humanities, Philosophy (Fellow, Honors College).
EMPLOYMENT - ACADEMIC
2001-2019 Associate Professor Performance Studies, Dept. of Interdisciplinary Arts and Performance,
Arizona State University, West Campus.
1994–2001 Assistant Professor Performance Studies, Dept. of Interdisciplinary Arts and Performance,
Arizona State University, West Campus.
1991-1994 Instructor: ASUW Arts and Sciences Instructor:
1988-1991 New York University, Department of English Adjunct Assistant Professor
of Humanities, Dept. of Humanities Expository Writing Program
1976-82 University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Humanities
Humanities/Communications, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA. 1976 Teacher, Hahnemann University Special High School for Human Resources and Development.
1974-84 1976 1972-74 1973 1971-72
Teacher/Curriculum Development, High School, Language Arts
Title VIII - Dropout Prevention, Trenton High School, Trenton, N.J. Curriculum Development: Officers Training School Division of Corrections and Parole, State of New Jersey. Adult
Learning/Curriculum Development: Language Arts
Ohio University Education Department and The Ohio State Penitentiary, Lucasville, Ohio.
(I consider the listing above to reflect the invaluable experiences gained through my
varied education about education.
OTHER EMPLOYMENT
1978 - 87 Special Projects Director/Writer Relâche Music Ensemble, Philadelphia, PA.
(Arts Administration: publications editor, grant writer, program, festival, and events coordinator).
1984 - 86 1974 - 88 Writer/Program Development/Arts Administration
The Yellow Springs Institute, Chester Springs, PA (publications, grants writer,
program development).
and Journalism/Business Writing/Consulting/Research with The Philadelphia Inquirer, newspapers, magazines, foundations, arts and non-profit organizations in Philadelphia).
PUBLICATIONS
Journal Articles (selected)
2023. "Robert Ashley: Language, Texts and Performance” Studient Zur Wertungsforshcung, Critical Research
Studies in Music. 19 pages, Wein, London 2023.
2023. "Artaud and American Artists." Performing Arts Journal (45:2: 152-156. #134 May, 2023). Review Essay
of Bradnock, Lucy, No More Masterpieces: Modern Art After Artaud, New Haven, Yale University Press, 2020.
2015. “Vorticism Revisited.” Journal of Modern Literature. 38.4 Summer 178-183.
2011. “Museums and New Aesthetic Practices.” Museums & Social Issues. 6:1:
Spring, 2011. 71-79.
2008. “Avital Ronell's The Test Drive and Performance" Mofa: Journal
of Performing Arts http://arts2.tau.ac.il/mofa/article.php?id=162
2007. "Uncurating at The Slought Foundation: Art Today in Practice, Theory,
Talk." Locus Suspectus. 5: 2007 12 -15. http://www.lsmagazine.ca/
2004. "ReViewing Robert Ashley's Music With Roots in the Aether: the first
opera for television." Millennium Film Journal Fall (42) 53-70.
2005. "Robert Ashley: Defining American Opera." PAJ/Performing Arts
Journal, 27:2 (78). 45-60.
2004. "From Dog to Ant: The Evolution Of Lee Breuer's Animations." PAJ/
Performing Arts Journal, 26:2 (77). 52-60.
1998. “Variant Readings: On Armand Schwerner’s Prose.” Talisman:
Armand Schwerner Issue. 19: 112-116.
1990. "Performance Novels: Notes Toward an Extension of Bakhtin's Theories of
Genre and the Novel." Discours Social/Social Discourse, 3, 1/2: 135-145.
1982. "Humor in the 1930s." Book Forum, 6, 2: 196-200.
1979. "On Reading José Lezama Lima's Paradiso." LatinAmerican Fiction Today, 139-146.
1971. "The Themes of Black Literature." Ohio English Bulletin, 12, 3: 1-4.
Book Chapters, Dictionary Entries/Introductions/Conference Papers (selected)
2021. "Lee Breuer: Writing, Directing, Illusion-Making and Theatre" in Great North American
Stage Directors, V. 5: Richard Schechner, Lee Breuer, Ann Bogart, ed. Joan Herrington, London,
New York: Methuen/Bloomsbury, 134-171.
2019. "Introduction: Illusions, Reality and Performance in the Imagination of Lee Breuer," in
La Davina Caricatura: Bunraku Meets Motown. London, New York, Calcutta: Seagull Press.
2017. "Afterword: A Reading of Martin Matuštík's Out of Silence: Repair Across Generations in Contexts."
New Critical Theory Press (Czech Translation)
2015. “On Resonance, Paradoxical Sublimations; or, Meditations on the Legacy of a Glass Harp and
Philadelphia’s Sonic Unconscious.” America and the Musical Unconscious. Julius Greve amd
Sascha Pöhlmann (eds.). New York, Dresden: Atropos Press. 373-410.
2014. “Orpheus and Eurydice in Performance in the 21st Century.” Myths Revisited. Istanbul 2ndAnnual
International Aksit Gorturk Conference 208-218.
2013. “Fred Ho’s Operatic Journey.” In Yellow Power! Yellow Soul: The Radical Art of Fred Ho.
Eds., Roger Buckley, Tamara Roberts. Urbana: University of Illinois. Press. 63-93.
2011. “Daniel Lentz.” The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. Entry (update of 1999).
2010. “Richard Lerman.” The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. Entry. 577 (update of 1999)
2008. “Approaching knowledge, research, performance, and the arts” for Mapping Landscapes in
Performance as Research: Scholarly Acts and Creative Cartographies, eds., Lynette Hunter,
Shannon Rose Riley. UK: Palgrave. 2009. 114 -121. (Citation. Spatz, Ben. Review,
Theatre Journal, 62:3, October, 2010. 490–491).
2002. “The Sonic Landscapes of Robert Ashley.” In 20th Century Theater and Landscape. Elinor Fuchs
and Una Chauduhi, eds. University of Michigan Press. 322-349.
2002. “On the Dialogics of Pedagogy and Performance.” In Teaching Performance: Theory, Practices,
Pedagogy. Stuckey, Nathan and Cynthia Wimmer, eds. Carbondale: Southern Illinois
University Press. 259-285. Translation into Portuguese as “A Dialógica da Performance e da
Pedagogia (trans. Martin Dahlström Heuser). educcação (Revista Centro de Educcação,
Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, Brasil) 39:31 pp. 477-488. Henz, Celso Ilgo & Bolzan,
Doris Pires Vargas, (eds.)
2000. Introduction: “On Fairy Tales” Miranda Pear's Brazen Bed-Time Stories.
by Maralyn Lois Polak. Books on Screen. E-book.
1999. “Richard Lerman.” The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. Entry. 577.
1999. “Daniel Lentz.” The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musician Entry. 550-551.
1996. "Armand Schwerner." In Dictionary of Literary Biography. Columbia, S.C.: Bruccoli, Clark,
Layman, Inc. 242-253.
1989 "Silent Performances: On Reading John Cage." Bucknell Review: John Cage at 75. Eds.
Richard Fleming, William Duckworth. Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell University Press. 74-96.
Other Articles, Reviews/Blogs/Programs
2016. on Broad Street Review: http://www.broadstreetreview.com/authors/aj-sabatini: “Gogols’ The Inspector General”;
“Growing Up in the Bronx.”
2015. DeWitt, Jack. Delicious Little Traitor – A Varian Pike Mystery. Your Own Back Yard On-Line. Book Review.
http://michaelgillanmaxwell.com/2015/05/07/guest-review-delicious-little-traitor-a-varian-pike-
mystery-by-jack-dewitt-reviewed-by-aj-sabatini/
.2015 on Broad Street Review: http://www.broadstreetreview.com/authors/aj-sabatini:
‘Fury: Religion, War and Film’’ ‘Heidegger and the Super Bowl’;
‘Kierkegaard, Irony and Stephen Colbert’
2014 on Broad Street Review: http://www.broadstreetreview.com/authors/aj-sabatini:
“The Met’s The Nose: The exuberant heyday of Russia’s Avant-garde”; “Lee Breuer’s La Divina Caricatura:
A dog’s search for meaning; “Alfonso Cuarón’s Gravity: Exploring outer space?”; Europa Report:
The trouble with outer space films”; “How do you reason with a humanoid?”; “A jury of whose peers? George Zimmerman's
trial, and mine”; “Banality as an art form: The most interesting man on the block”;
"Philadelphia Art Museum's Dancing Around the Bride - To dance with Duchamp and walk with him”; Andrei
Codrescu's Bibliodeath: Requiem for the printed word”; “Richard Foreman's Old Fashioned Prostitutes.”
2012 on Broad Street Review: http://www.broadstreetreview.com/authors/aj-sabatini: “Titanic Night to Remember; Joseph Cedar’s Footnote”; On Carlos Fuentes”; “Commotion Festival: The City as a Work of Art”; “Ai Wei Wei’s Never Sorry; “Why Americans love guns.”
2011 on Broad Street Review: http://www.broadstreetreview.com/authors/aj-sabatini:
"Timeless Myth, Psychological Puzzle: Gluck's Orphée et Eurydice’; “The Singing Neanderthals: The Origins of Music,
Language, Mind, Body, Stephen Mithen; “Freud to Film: What Do Dreams Really Tell Us?; "Art, Politics and Humanity:
Václav Havel's Leaving, Theory and Practice."
2009. “Bruce Nauman at the Venice Biennale." Broad Street Review.http://www.broadstreetreview.com/index.php/main/article
/bruce_nauman_at_the_venice_biennale
2009. "Hidden Cities: If these walls could talk." Broad Street Review.http://www.broadstreetreview.com/index.php/main/article
/hidden_cities_arts_festival
2008. "An Introduction to the Music, Theater and Ideas of Fred Ho" University of Wisconsin Artist in Residence Series
(Catalogue Essay).
2008. Hearsight Magazine. http://hearsight.com/ “Obama, the Arts and You”;
“Anna Devere Smith: The Arizona Project: Women, Justice and the Law”
“Osvaldo Golijov’s Ainadama at The Phoenix Symphony (review)
“Chris Danowski's XO_tic: Phoenix Fringe Festival (review).
2007and 2006. X-perimental Arts Festival. Phoenix, AZ - Program Essay.
2006. "The Soundworlds of Richard Lerman." CD Liner Notes. EM Records.
2006. "Pencil Lines for a City Walk," Locus Suspectus. Vol 1. 9 - 13.
2004. “On Leandro Soto's Mapping Arizona" Program Essay.
1991. "Taking Photographs/Making Statements: The Civic Photography of Bill Ravanesi." In Breath Taken: The Landscape
and Biography of Asbestos. Boston: Center for Visual Art and Public Interest. 13-17.
1986. "Terrorism and Performance." High Performance, 9, 34: 29-33. (trans. Elvira Christian, in German as
"Terrorismus und Performance") Kunstforum International # 117. 1993.
1985. "Symposium as Performance." High Performance, 9, 36: 84.
1985. "New Institutions for Performance." Yellow Springs Review, 2: 6-8. "Joan Jonas Performance."
New Art Examiner. Jan: 22. "Poetics Performance Politics." Ear Magazine, 9/5: 9.
1982. "Annson Kenney: 1944 -1981." New Art Examiner, 4: 11.
1977. "The New Music Conspiracy." Philadelphia Arts Exchange, 1, 3: 50-52.
1977. "Annson Kenney at the Art Alliance." Philadelphia Arts Exchange, 1, 3: 56. ________
1975. "Whatever Happened to Bugs Bunny?" Philadelphia Review, 11,1: 14 - 16.