Colleen Kim Daniher

My research and teaching revolve around histories, theories, and practices that approach the human body as a media concept and as a mediating device. I focus, in particular, on the emergence of categories of race, gender, and sexuality as technologies of colonial governance, and the endlessly inventive ways that colonial subjects use expressive culture (e.g. fashion, music, dance, performance) to negotiate their bodies within and beyond these systems. I am currently writing a book about mixed-raced actresses and colonial amnesia in the transnational Americas (1850-1960); my next project investigates contemporary performance and the politics of the senses in maritime Southeast Asia (Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia).

• Social Sciences and Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) Exchange Grant for "Sustaining Global Connections in Feminist Theatre and Performance Historiography," PI, (2024-25)
• Laurier Merit Mention for Teaching (2021-2023)
• Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE) Outstanding Article Award (2021)
• Social Sciences and Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) Doctoral Fellowship (2013-14)
• American Society for Theatre Research (ASTR) Helen Krich Chinoy Dissertation Research Fellowship (2013-14)
• Northwestern Department of Performance Studies Lilla A. Heston Memorial Scholarship (2012)
• Social Sciences and Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) Canadian Graduate Scholarship (2006-07)

I am willing to supervise graduate students in the areas of critical media historiography; media arts and activism; race and visual culture; postcolonial/decolonial/anti-colonial history, theory, and methodology; popular entertainment studies; and representations of race, gender, sexuality, and indigeneity in global/transnational contexts. Area studies include Asia and the Americas.

BOOKS

Daniher, Colleen Kim, Ed. (with Marlis Schweitzer). Women's Innovations in Theatre, Dance, and Performance, Volume 1: Performers. Series Editors: Wendy Arons, Melissa Blanco Borelli, and Elizabeth Son. Bloomsbury-Methuen Press (under contract, expected 2025)

ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS

Daniher, Colleen Kim. "Working-Class Motherhood and Care-Work in the Plays of Catherine Hernandez.” Rethinking Motherhood in the Twenty-First Century: Perspectives on Canadian Theatre. Eds. Karen Bamford and Sheila Rabillard. McGill-Queen’s University Press (under contract, expected 2025).

Daniher, Colleen Kim. "Bits and Pieces: Situating Winnifred Eaton within a Transnational Theatre Historiography of the Americas." Theatre Annual. (in-press, expected December 2024).

Daniher, Colleen Kim. “The Chinese Lady: US History’s Object Lesson Becomes US History’s Interpreter." TDR: The Drama Review. (2021)

Daniher, Colleen Kim. “Looking at Pauline Johnson: Race, Gender, and Delsartism’s Legible Body.” Theatre Journal. (2020) *awarded ATHE Outstanding Article Award

Daniher, Colleen Kim, Ed. (with Katherine Zien). “Race and Performance in the US-Canada Borderlands.” Special Issue of Theatre Research in Canada/Recherches théâtrales au Canada. (2020)

Daniher, Colleen Kim. “Yella Gal: Eartha Kitt’s Racial Modulations.” Women & Performance: A Journal of Feminist Theory. (2018)

Daniher, Colleen Kim. “On Teaching Kim’s Convenience: Asian American Studies, Asian Canadian Studies, and the Politics of Race in Asian Canadian Theatre and Performance Studies.” Theatre Research in Canada/Recherches théâtrales au Canada. (2018)

Daniher, Colleen Kim. “Forgetting Asian Canadian Experimental Performance: Fred Wah and Haruko Okano’s High(bridi)Tea.” Canadian Theatre Review. (2018)

Daniher, Colleen Kim. “The Pose as Interventionist Gesture: Erica Lord and Decolonizing the Proper Subject of Memory.” e-misférica: Performance and Politics in the Americas. (2014)

• CS 204: History of Communication Thought
• KS 340: Performance Cultures
• CS 380: Fashion as Communication
• CS 411: Decolonizing Media Studies
• CS 400: Racial Icons
• CS 640: Communication and the Senses