Gelsey Bell is an ABD Doctoral Candidate in the department of Performance Studies at New York University. Her research focuses on the voice, song, twentieth-century music and performance, contemporary philosophy, technology, the quotidian, speech pathology, and social justice. She is currently working on a dissertation tentatively titled “Voice-Acts: Performance and Relationality in the Vocal Activities of American Twentieth-Century Composers.” She has the lucky pleasure to work with scholars Allen S. Weiss, André Lepecki, and Barbara Browning.
She is also the Critical Acts Editor, with T. Nikki Cesare, of TDR/The Drama Review: the journal of performance studies, edited by Richard Schechner.
PUBLICATIONS
““What Was The War Like?”: An Interview with Josh Fox on Surrender.” TDR/The Drama Review (forthcoming)
(co-authored with James Ball)
“Lindsay, Arto.” Grove Dictionary of American Music, 2nd ed. (forthcoming)
Book Review of Voice: Vocal Aesthetics in Digital Arts and Media edited by Norie Neumark, Ross Gibson, and Theo van Leeuwen and Dramatic Theories of Voice in the Twentieth Century by Andrew M. Kimbrough. TDR/The Drama Review (forthcoming)
“Driving Deeper into That Thing: The Humanity of Heiner Goebbels’s Stifters Dinge.” TDR/The Drama Review, (T207) 54, 2: 2010
“Review of FLUXCONCERT 20080925-27.” Women & Performance 19, 3: 2009
“Music and Dance.” Critical Correspondence, June 2008
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She is also the Critical Acts Editor, with T. Nikki Cesare, of TDR/The Drama Review: the journal of performance studies, edited by Richard Schechner.
PUBLICATIONS
““What Was The War Like?”: An Interview with Josh Fox on Surrender.” TDR/The Drama Review (forthcoming)
(co-authored with James Ball)
“Lindsay, Arto.” Grove Dictionary of American Music, 2nd ed. (forthcoming)
Book Review of Voice: Vocal Aesthetics in Digital Arts and Media edited by Norie Neumark, Ross Gibson, and Theo van Leeuwen and Dramatic Theories of Voice in the Twentieth Century by Andrew M. Kimbrough. TDR/The Drama Review (forthcoming)
“Driving Deeper into That Thing: The Humanity of Heiner Goebbels’s Stifters Dinge.” TDR/The Drama Review, (T207) 54, 2: 2010
“Review of FLUXCONCERT 20080925-27.” Women & Performance 19, 3: 2009
“Music and Dance.” Critical Correspondence, June 2008
CV available upon request.