ABSTRACT

Ronald J. Pelias is a professor emeritus in the Department of Speech Communication at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale. He is the author of numerous books on performance studies and performance methodologies, including  Writing Performance: Poeticizing the Researcher’s Body (Southern Illinois University Press, 1999), A Methodology of the Heart: Evoking Academic and Daily Life  (AltaMira, 2004), Performance Studies: The Interpretation of Aesthetic Texts, 2e  (Kendall Hunt, 2007) with Tracy Stephenson Shaffer, and Leaning: A Poetics of Personal Relations (Left Coast, 2011). In 2000, he received the Lilla A. Heston Award for Outstanding Scholarship in Interpretation and Performance Studies from the National Communication Association. In addition to numerous published articles and book chapters, he also publishes performance texts and poetry.