Lucy Mae San Pablo Burns, Ph.D, EnglishAmerican Studies Program, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Assistant Professor, Asian American Studies

Office: TBA

Email: lmburns@ucla.edu

Selected Courses Taught:

WAC 2: Race and Gender in American Protest Theater and Performance (undergraduate seminar)

WAC146: Politics of Performance: Culture and State (upper division undergraduate seminar)

WAC 220: Feminist Performance and Race (graduate seminar)

AAS133: Introduction to Filipino American Studies

AAS187B: Introduction to Asian American Theater and Performance

AAS191C: Critical Filipino Studies (upper division seminar)

AAS200D: Transnational Imaginaries in Asian American Theater and Performance (graduate seminar)

Research Interests:

Filipino American Studies; culture in social movements; race and performance; feminist performance theory; Asian American cultural critique

Selected Publications:

The Color of Theater, edited with Roberta Uno. London: Continuum P, 2002.

"Woman and the Changing World on Alternative Global Stage." Asian Theater Journal v32.2 (Fall 2005).

"Alternation: Costume Metaphors in Filipino American Performance." Philippine Studies: Have We Gone Beyond St Louis. Edited by Priscelina Legasto-Patajo. Manila, Philippines: University of the Philippines Press. Forthcoming.

"Theater in the Streets: An Interview with Chris Millado about the 1980s Philippine Protest Theater." Our Own Voice: Filipinos in the Diaspora Literary Ezine. July 2002. http://www.oovrag.com/~oov/essays/essay2002b-6.shtml.

Arts/Artists in 2007 World Social Forum, Or Towards a Contemporary Movement of Arts and Culture for Social Change. A Brief Report on the U.S. Artists Delegation at the 2007 World Social Forum, held in Nairobi Kenya January 19-26, 2007. Submitted to Mayi Theater Ensemble. New York, July 2007.

"Diasporic Dialogues: A Report on Contemporary Asian American/Asian Artists in the Diaspora." Conducted for the Arts and Culture Division of the Ford Foundation. July 2003.

"Performing Pilipino American in the Academy: Arts, Identity and the University." Research conducted for the National Federation of Filipino American Association (NaFFAA) on a cultural project entitled "Pilipino American Performing Arts Initiative," Funded by the Ford Foundation. January 2003.