Jacqueline E. Bixler

• Mexican Theatre, Literature, Film, and Other Forms of Cultural Expression
• Mexico 1968
• Argentine and Chilean Theatre

• Ph.D., in Spanish, University of Kansas, 1980
• M.A., in Spanish, University of Kansas, 1976
• B.A., in Spanish, Ohio University, 1975

• Alumni Distinguished Professor, Virginia Tech, since 2003
• Rodolfo Usigli Distinguished Professorship, Universidad Iberoamericana, 2018
• SCHEV Outstanding Faculty Award, 2016
• Alumni Award for Teaching Excellence, 1994
• Diggs Teaching Scholar, 1992

Books

Historias para ser contadas. El teatro de Alejandro Ricaño. LATR Books, 2012.

Las mujeres y la dramaturgia mexicana del sigo XX. Co-edited with Claudia Gidi. Ediciones el Milagro, 2011.

Trans/Acting: Latin American and Latino Performance. Co-edited with Laurietz Seda. Bucknell UP, 2009.

Voces en el umbral: El teatro de Rascón Banda. Co-edited with Stuart A. Day. Escenología, 2005.

Sediciosas seducciones: Sexo, poder y palabras en el teatro de Sabina Berman. Escenología, 2004.

Convención y transgresión: El teatro de Emilio Carballido. Universidad Veracruzana, 2000.

Convention and Transgression: The Theatre of Emilio Carballido. Bucknell University Press, 1997. 

Journal Articles

“Performance, poesía y un pasado que no muere en la Plaza de Tlatelolco: Auxilio: Au Secours.” Revista de Investigación Teatral (Mexico). Forthcoming in Investigación Teatral (Mexico)

“Performing Tlatelolco and the Past That Never Dies:  Auxilio: Au Secours and El pasado nunca se muere, ni siquiera es pasado.” (accepted TDR. The Drama Review).

“Asignatura pendiente: Tlatelolco, el teatro y la farsa de la justicia.” (forthcoming Latin American Research Review)

“The Medium is the Message: Cell Phones and Mediaturgy in Épica de la inmediatez.” Symposium, vol. 73, no. 1 (2019): 29-44.

“Historias para ser contadas y la onda de la 'narraturgia' en el teatro mexicano contemporáneo.” Revista de estudios hispánicos 52 (2018): 505-25.

“Mexican 'History' in and as Theatre in the Classroom and Beyond.” Latin American Theatre Review 50.1 (2016): 45-60.

“‘In Yer Face’: la irrupción de lo real en el teatro de Rascón Banda, Olmos, Legom y Ricaño.” Semiosis 11.21 (2015): 171-80.

"Sabina Berman and the Anxiety of (Self) Influence.” Romance Notes 55.2 (2015): 227-40.

Book Chapters

“Archiving Amnesia: 1968, Tlatelolco, and the Artfulness of Memory.” Mexico through Art. Ed. Stuart Day. U Arizona P, 2017, pp. 203-18.

“El teatro de la violencia: humor, ironía y cinismo en dos comedias negras mexicanas.” La re/presentación de la violencia en el teatro latinoamericano contemporáneo: ¿ética y/o estética? Eds. José Ramón Alcántara Mejía y Jorge Yangali Vargas. Universidad Iberoamericana, 2016, pp. 147-58.

“Mexico 1968 and the Art(s) of Memory.” The Long 1968. Eds. Daniel Sherman et al. Indiana UP, 2013. 169-215.

“De amores y amarres: el teatro mexicano de mujeres.” Las mujeres y la dramaturgia mexicana del sigo XX. Eds. Jacqueline Bixler and Claudia Gidi. Ediciones el Milagro, 2011. 237-67.

“Historias, memorias y voces prestadas en el teatro de Víctor Hugo Rascón Banda.” Umbral de la memoria: Teatro completo de Víctor Hugo Rascón Banda. Tomo V: Otras voces, otras fronteras. Ed. Enrique Mijares. Instituto de la Cultura Chihuahuense, 2010. 307-27.

“The Politics of Tradaptation in the Theatre of Sabina Berman.” Trans/Acting: Latin American and Latino Performance. Eds. Jacqueline Bixler and Laurietz Seda. Bucknell UP, 2009. 72-90.

Translations

“Idiots Contemplating the Snow” by Alejandro Ricaño. Asymptote (accepted April 2019).

“Hotel Good Luck” by Alejandro Ricaño. The Mercurian: A Theatrical Translation Review, 7.3 (2019): 5-38.

“Photograph on the Beach.” Translation of Fotografía en la playa by Emilio Carballido. The Mercurian: A Theatrical Translation Review 5.2 (2014): 126-75.

• Keynote: “Oblivion and Obsession: Contemporary Mexican Theatre and Present Pasts.” Mid-American Conference on Hispanic Literatures, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2014.
• Invited speaker: National Homage to Emilio Carballlido: Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico City, 2008.
• Invited lecture: “The Politics of Translation and Adaptation in the Recent Theatre of Sabina Berman.” University of Kansas, 2007.
• Invited lecture: “Desde la pareja hasta la periferia en el teatro mexicano contemporáneo.” Tec de Monterrey, Mexico, 2005.
• Three lectures on the theatre of Emilio Carballido at the Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, in Monterrey, Mexico, 2001.
• Invited lecture: “Power Plays and the Mexican Crisis: The Recent Theatre of Sabina Berman.” Penn State, 1998.

• Latin American Theatre: from Page to Stage
• Spanish Translation: Theory and Technique
• Love, Sex, and Power in Latin American Theatre
• Contemporary Mexican and Central American Culture and Literature
• The Art(s) of Memory: Mexican History, Literature and Culture
• Mexican Film and Cultural Politics
• The Politics of Memory: Southern Cone

• Invited Professor. Universidad Iberoamericana. Graduate course on Mexico 1968, November 2018.
• Invited Professor. Universidad Iberoamericana. Graduate course on History and the Politics of Memory in Latin American Theatre, March, 2012.
• Organizer of VII Conference on Latin American Theatre Today, March, 2008, at Virginia Tech.