Peggy Phelan

Peggy Phelan (born April 23, 1959) is an American feminist scholar. She is the Ann O’Day Maples Professor of the Arts, Professor of Theater & Performance Studies, and Professor of English at Stanford University.^[1][2][3][4]

Peggy Phelan
Born	Margaret Phelan New York
Awards	2004 Guggenheim Fellowship for Theatre Arts
Philosophical work
Main interests	Feminist performance studies

Career

Phelan is a former president and treasurer of Performance Studies International; the former chair of New York University's Department of Performance Studies from 1993 to 1996 and of Stanford University's Drama Department; and the former Denning Family Director of the Stanford Arts Institute. She is currently the Ann O’Day Maples Professor of the Arts, Professor of Theater & Performance Studies, and Professor of English at Stanford University.^[1][2][3]

Phelan's research interests include American literature, British literature, and performance studies with a focus in poetry and drama.^[1] Her work is primarily concerned with the ephemerality of live performance.^[5] While most of her initial work was rooted in feminist post-structuralism and psychoanalysis,^[6][7] her more recent work is concerned with media, photography, and visual arts.^[8] She has written on topics including the selfie,^[9] Ronald Reagan,^[10] and Andy Warhol.^[11] Her most widely recognized essay^{[citation needed]} is "The Ontology of Performance," originally published in her book Unmarked: The Politics of Performance (1993).^[12]

Selected publications

• Phelan, Peggy. Live Art in La: Performance in Southern California, 1970-1983. New York: Routledge, 2012.
• Reckitt, Helena, and Peggy Phelan. Art and Feminism. London: Phaidon, 2001.
• Phelan, Peggy, Hans U. Obrist, Elisabeth Bronfen, and Pipilotti Rist. Pipilotti Rist. London: Phaidon, 2001.
• Phelan, Peggy, and Martin Gustavsson. Martin Gustavsson. 2001.
• Phelan, Peggy. Special Issue: Narrative and Performance. Ohio State University Press, 2000.
• Phelan, Peggy, and Jill Lane. The Ends of Performance. New York University Press, 1998.
• Phelan, Peggy. Mourning Sex: Performing Public Memories. London: Routledge, 1997.
• Phelan, Peggy. Unmarked: The Politics of Performance. London: Routledge, 1993.

Awards

• Guggenheim Fellowship for Theatre Arts, 2004^[13]
• Getty Research Institute Scholar, 2004-2005^[14]
• Stanford Humanities Center Violet Andrews Whittier Fellow, 2011-2012^[15]
• Australian National University Humanities Institute Fellow^[1]
• Callaway Prize for dramatic criticism honorable mention, 1997-1999^[1]