Dr. Stephen Olbrys Gencarella

Performance studies; rhetoric; folklore.

Education

Ph.D., Indiana University, 2003
M.A., Tufts University, 1995
B.A., Providence College, 1993

Background

Author of "Disciplining the Carnivalesque: Chris Farley's Exotic Dance"; "Money Talks: Folklore in the Public Sphere"; "Seinfeld's Democratic Vistas"; "Keep Your Keys: Teaching, Democracy, and Performance Art"; and "The Ivory Tower, Apathy, and the Art of Citizenship."  Current research focuses on the commodification of civil rights within local tourist practices, and the relationship between rhetorical theory and cultural critique. 

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