Jon McKenzie

Assistant Professor of English

PhD, New York University

204 Sanborn

jon.v.mckenzie@dartmouth.edu

Interests

My primary interests are in new media, performance theory, and the role of art and technology in cultural research, contemporary processes of globalization, and emerging forms of social activism.

Courses

• Introduction to New Media
• Civil Disobedience from Walden to the Web
• Communication Breakdown: Orality, Literacy, Digitality
• Interactivity, Knowledge, Performance

Selected Publications

• Perform or Else: From Discipline to Performance. London: Routledge, 2001.
• "Dispatches from the Future: A Conversation on Hacktivism." Jon McKenzie and Ricardo Dominguez. Connect: art.politics.theory.practice 2 2001: 115-122.
• "Laurie Anderson for Dummies," The Drama Review 41:2 Summer 1997: 30-50.
• "Genre Trouble: (The) Butler Did It," in The Ends of Performance, ed. Peggy Phelan and Jill Lane. New York: New York University Press, 1997.
• "Performance Studies," The Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory & Criticism, Second Edition. Ed. Michael Groden, Martin Kreiswirth, and Imre Szeman. The Johns Hopkins University Press, forthcoming.