TIM RAPHAEL
Associate Professor of Art, Culture, and Media
Director, Center for Migration and the Global City
Center for Migration and the Global City
Rutgers University-Newark
49 Bleeker Street
Newark , NJ 07102
EDUCATION
Ph.D. Department of Performance Studies, Northwestern University 2001
Cognate Areas: American Studies, Cultural Studies, Critical Theory.
M.A. Department of Performance Studies, Northwestern University 1994
B.A. Wesleyan University, History of Religions (Phi Beta Kappa) 1984
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Rutgers University-Newark, Director, Center for Migration and the Global City 2009-present
Assistant Professor of Theater 2009-present
Georgetown University, Assistant Professor of Theater & Performance Studies 2007-2009
Rutgers University-Newark, Assistant Professor of Visual and Performing Arts 2003-2007
Ursinus College, Assistant Professor of Communication Studies and Theater 2001-2003
Wesleyan University, Associate Dean and Dean of the Junior Class 1999-2000
Wesleyan University, Visiting Assistant Professor of Theater 1997-1999
Northwestern University, Lecturer, Department of Performance Studies (Summer trimester) 1997
Dartmouth College, Visiting Assistant Professor of Drama (Summer session) 1996
Universidade Aberta (Lisbon, Portugal), Lecturer, Department of American Studies 1994
Dartmouth College, Guest Artist; Producer/Faculty Advisor, Eleanor Frost Student
Playwrighting Competition, Department of Drama (Spring trimester) 1993
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PUBLICATIONS
BOOKS
The President Electric: Ronald Reagan and the Politics of Performance, University of
Michigan Press. 2009
REFEREED ARTICLES
“Performing the Body Electric: GE, TV and the Reagan Brand,” The Drama Review,
vol. 53, no. 2, Summer (T 202) 2009
“Mo(u)rning in America; Hamlet, Reagan, and the Rights of Memory.” Theatre Journal,
vol. 59, no. 1, March: 1-20. 2007
“Memento Mori: Adapting Michael Lesy‟s Wisconsin Death Trip.” Oxford Magazine,
Issue XX. http://www.orgs.muohio.edu/oxmag/ 2006
“Something to Declare: Performing Oral History.” Special issue on “Teaching Through
Testimony,” Transformations: The Journal of Inclusive Scholarship and Pedagogy
vol. XVII, no. 1: 13-29. 2006
“Staging the Real: Breaking the „Naturalist Habit‟ in the Representation of History,”
Theatre Topics, 9.2, September: 127-139. 1999
“The King is a Thing: Bodies of Memory in the Age of Reagan,” The Drama Review,
vol. I, no. 43, Spring: 46-58. 1999
GUEST EDITOR
“Teaching Performance,” special issue of Transformations: The Journal of Inclusive Scholarship
and Pedagogy, vol. XX, no. 1, Spring/Summer, 2009.
WORKS IN PROGRESS
“The Cheese Stands Alone: The Wire and the Neoliberal Game.” Chapter in edited volume,
24/7 Believe: Watching the Wire, eds. Fran Bartkowski and Sherry-Ann Butterfield, Columbia
University Press, under consideration.
Performance as Civic Engagement and Public Scholarship. A monograph, building on two published
articles, that draws on my fieldwork on the pedagogical and scholarly applications of performance.
Performance and the State. Co-editor, multidisciplinary volume examining the role of performance
in authorizing and legitimating state power.
SCHOLARLY PRESENTATIONS
INVITED LECTURES
Georgetown University. Americas Initiative Seminar, “The Cheese Stands Alone: Playing the
Neoliberal Game,” Washington, DC, October, 2008.
Rutgers University, Department of History, New Brunswick, NJ, "The Education of Ronald Reagan:
Politics, Media, and Performance in the 20th Century," October, 2005.
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Chicago Humanities Festival and American Music Theater Project at Northwestern University,
Evanston, IL. “From the Wonderful Wizard to WAS: The Legacy and Challenges of The Wizard of
Oz.” Talk, panel and performance workshop, October, 2005.
The University of California at Santa Barbara Interdisciplinary Humanities Center. “Living Better
Electrically: Ronald Reagan, General Electric, and the Fiat of Electricity,” October, 2004.
Rutgers University, symposium on the role of media in times of war, Newark, NJ, “Mastering the
Matrix,” November, 2003.
Ursinus College, symposium on “Performing the Body Politic,” Collegeville, PA, “Reagan, Inc.:
The Branding of the President,” April, 2002.
Brown University. Department of Theater and Performance Studies, Providence, RI, “Becoming
Pictures: Ronald Reagan and the Reformation of Mimesis,” February, 2002.
Ursinus College, Baden Lecture, Collegeville, PA, “The Role of Performance in American Politics,”
October, 2000.
Stanford University, Department of Theater, Palo Alto, CA, “Bodies of Memory in Reagan‟s
America,” February, 2000.
Wesleyan University, Humanities and Arts Lecture Series, Middletown, CT, “Tricksters and Tar
Babies: Lee Atwater, Willie Horton and the Minstrelization of American Politics,” November, 1998.
Wesleyan University, Humanities and Arts Lecture Series, Middletown, CT, “Hauntologies: Taking
Up the Dead in the Age of Reagan,” March, 1997.
PLENARY PRESENTATIONS
American Society for Theatre Research Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL, “Performance Pedagogy,
Ethnography, and Service Learning,” November, 2006.
American Society for Theater Research Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, MN, Chair, “Geographies of
Performance” panel, November 1999.
Wesleyan University, “The Theater of Jose Rivera.” Conference organizer and moderator (with Jose
Rivera), Middletown, CT, April, 1998.
Performance Studies International Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA, “Performing the Rights of Memory:
Ronald Reagan and the Re-Membering of America,”April, 1997.
CONFERENCE PAPERS AND PANELS:
American Society for Theatre Research Annual Conference, Boston, MA, “Staging Power:
Performance and the State.” Working Group Co-Convener, November, 2008.
Cultures of Translation: Adaptation in Film and Performance conference, University of Glamorgan,
Cardiff, Wales, “Adaptation in the Academy: Research, Pedagogy, and Artistic Practice,” June, 2008.
Performance Studies International Annual Meeting, New York University, New York, NY, “Time
Without Number: The Politics and Performance of Immigrant Detention,” November, 2007.
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Center for Urban and Metropolitan Universities Annual Conference, Towson State University,
Baltimore, MD, “The Arts, the Academy, and Community Partnerships,” October, 2007.
Feminist Pedagogy Conference, CUNY Graduate Center, New York, NY, panel organized by
Transformations:The Journal of Inclusive Scholarship and Pedagogy, October, 2007.
Imagining America National Conference, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, “Location Shapes
the Curriculum: A New Model from Rutgers-Newark,” October, 2006.
American Studies Association National Conference, Washington, DC, “Fatwa, Exile, and The
Wizard of Oz,” November, 2005.
Imagining America Annual Meeting, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, “Making Performance
from Oral History,” October, 2005.
Performance Studies International Annual Meeting, Brown University, Providence, RI, “Hymn to
Elsewhere: A Multi-site Performance Project,” lecture/performance workshop, April, 2005.
American Studies Association Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA, “Something to Declare: Tales of
Immigration,” November, 2004.
“History Matters: Spaces of Violence, Spaces of Memory” conference, New School for Social
Research, New York, NY, “Bring Out Your Dead: Ronald Reagan and the Resurrection of America,”
April, 2004.
Oral History Association Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference, New Brunswick, NJ, “Embodying
History: Performing Oral History at Rutgers-Newark,” February, 2004.
Modernist Studies Association Annual Meeting, Birmingham, England, “Roosevelt, Reagan, Radio:
Sympathetic Magic in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction,” September, 2003.
American Studies Association Annual Meeting, Houston, TX, “Playing Dead: Hamlet, Reagan and
the Sanction of Death,” November, 2002.
National Communications Association Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA, “Identifying Voices:
Sounding the Nation as Symbolic Body,” November, 2001.
Performance Studies International Annual Meeting, Aberystwyth, Wales, “Mo(u)rning in America:
Ronald Reagan and the Hauntology of Bitburg,” April, 1999.
Association for Theater in Higher Education Annual Meeting, San Antonio, TX, “Staging the Real:
Performance as Pedagogy,” August, 1998.
National Communication Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL, “Re-presenting History as Public
Myth: Adapting and Performing Michael Lesy‟s Wisconsin Death Trip,” November, 1997.
Association for Theater in Higher Education Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL, “Rites of Memory: Ronald
Reagan Performs the Holocaust,” August, 1997.
Speech Communication Association Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA, “Unnatural Acts: Charles
Keating as Anti-Pornographer and Entrepreneur,” November, 1996.
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Interdisciplinary Studies Conference, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, “Answering the Call:
Queer Phone Sex in the Age of AIDS,” November, 1994.
Literary Managers and Dramaturgs Association Conference, Chicago, IL, “Orality and Performance:
Making Theater from Oral History,” October, 1993.
PLAYS WRITTEN AND ADAPTED
Wisconsin Death Trip. A chamber opera adapted from Michael Lesy‟s Wisconsin Death Trip.
Co-writer of book and lyrics with Jeffrey Berkson, music by Jeffrey Berkson, Gonda Theater,
Georgetown University, January 29-February 7, 2008.
Time Without Number. Adapted from oral histories and ethnographies of the immigrant detention
system conducted by students from Rutgers-Newark and The New Jersey Institute of Technology.
Bradley Hall Theater, Rutgers-Newark, April 18-22, 2007.
Robeson in Space. Co-written with Guillermo E. Brown. Developed at Rutgers-Newark, February,
2005. Produced at Luna Stage, Montclair, NJ, September 29-October 23, 2005.
Something to Declare: Tales of Immigration. Adapted from oral histories about the immigrant
experience conducted by students at Rutgers-Newark and The New Jersey Institute of Technology.
Bradley Hall Theater, Rutgers-Newark, April 23-27, 2004.
The Collected Works of Billy the Kid. Adapted from the novel by Michael Ondaatje. Wallis Theater,
Northwestern University, August 3-8, 1997.
PROFESSIONAL THEATER/TELEVISION
Universal Pictures, Script Reader 1994-1995
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Paramount Pictures, Script Reader 1991-1993
East Coast Arts Theater, Associate Artistic Director 1988-1992
Law and Order (NBC) and The Trials of Rosie O'Neill (CBS) 1991-1992
Co-Writer of teleplays with Sally Nemeth.
Mumbo Jumbo Theater Company, Co-Founder and Co-Artistic Director 1987-1989
Theatre for a New Audience, Associate Producer 1986-1988
Wisdom Bridge Theater, Assistant to the Artistic Director (Robert Falls) 1984-1985
STAGE DIRECTING
Robeson in Space (Tim Raphael & Guillermo Brown) Luna Stage, Montclair, NJ 2005
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The Secret History of the Future (James Still) The Kennedy Center, Washington, DC 1993
Stalin’s Daughter (August Baker) New York Stage and Film, NY, NY 1993
The Velocity of Gary (James Still) Ensemble Studio Theatre, NY, NY 1992
Ain’t No Use In Going Home (John O‟Neal) East Coast Arts Theater,
New Rochelle, NY 1992
Out Clause (Joe Cacaci) East Coast Arts Theater,
New Rochelle, NY 1991
Winners of the White Atomic Sweepstakes HOME, NY, NY
(Grubb Graebner) 1991
Mud People (Keith Huff) East Coast Arts Theatre,
New Rochelle, NY 1990
Dreaming on Tiptoe (James Still) East Coast Arts Theatre,
New Rochelle, NY 1990
City on the Make Chelsea Center for the Arts, NY, NY
(Adapted from Nelson Algren by Jeffery Berkson,
Deniece Declue, and John Kerreker) 1989
An American Comedy (Richard Nelson) Soho Repertory Theater, NY, NY 1989
Locofish (Stuart Servetar) Chelsea Center for the Arts, NY, NY 1988
Baal (Bertolt Brecht) Chelsea Center for the Arts, NY, NY 1987
Footfalls and Rockabye (Samuel Beckett) Wisdom Bridge Theater , Chicago, IL 1986
ASSISTANT DIRECTING
The Taming of the Shrew (William Shakespeare) Director, Julie Taymor 1989
The Triplex Theater, NY, NY
Big Shot (Jack Gelber) Director, Jack Gelber 1988
East Coast Arts Theater, New Rochelle, NY
The Tempest (William Shakespeare) Director, Julie Taymor 1988
American Shakespeare Theater, Stratford, CT
Can’t Judge a Book (John O‟Neal) Director, Steven Kent 1986
Wisdom Bridge Theater , Chicago, IL.
Hamlet (William Shakespeare) Director, Robert Falls 1985
Wisdom Bridge Theater, Chicago, IL
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Terra Nova (Ted Tally) Director, Robert Falls 1984
Wisdom Bridge Theater, Chicago, IL
TEACHING
UNIVERSITY THEATER PRODUCTIONS WRITTEN, ADAPTED AND/OR DIRECTED
Pentecost (David Edgar) Georgetown University 2009
Wisconsin Death Trip (Tim Raphael & Jeff Berkson) Georgetown University 2008
Time Without Number (Tim Raphael) Rutgers University 2007
Road (Jim Cartwright) Rutgers University 2006
Mother Courage (Bertolt Brecht) Rutgers University 2005
Robeson in Space (Tim Raphael & Guillermo Brown) Rutgers University 2005
Something to Declare (Tim Raphael) Rutgers University 2004
Bloody Poetry (Howard Brenton) Ursinus College 2003
The Death of Bessie Smith (Edward Albee) Ursinus College 2002
Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992 (Anna Deveare Smith) Ursinus College 2002
The Glass Menagerie (Tennessee Williams) Ursinus College 2001
Stalin’s Daughter (August Baker) Ursinus College 2001
The Seagull (Anton Chekhov) Wesleyan University 1999
The Desert Storm Invitational (Robert Myers) Wesleyan University 1998
Marisol (Jose Rivera) Wesleyan University 1998
The Collected Works of Billy the Kid Northwestern University
(Adapted from Michael Ondaatje by Tim Raphael) 1997
Heartland (Robert Myers) Dartmouth College 1996
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS AND AFFILIATIONS:
Editorial Board member, Transformations: The Journal of Inclusive Scholarship and Pedagogy
American Society for Theatre Research
American Studies Association
Imagining America: Artists and Scholars in Public Life
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New York Theater Workshop Artistic Associate
Performance Studies International