Elise Morrison
· Assistant Professor of Theater and Performance Studies, Yale Faculty of Arts and SciencesYale University · Dramaturgy and Dramatic Criticism
Active 2011–2026
About
Elise Morrison is an Assistant Professor of Theater and Performance Studies at Yale, affiliated with the Yale Faculty of Arts and Sciences. She specializes in dramaturgy and dramatic criticism, contributing to the academic and practical understanding of theater. Her role involves teaching, research, and engagement with the broader theatrical community at Yale.
Research topics
- Computer Science
- Art
- Sociology
- Political Science
- Engineering
- Physics
- Geography
- Law
- Theology
- Philosophy
- History
- Mathematics
- Meteorology
- Epistemology
- Psychology
- Multimedia
- Literature
- Aesthetics
- Mechanical engineering
- Visual arts
- Environmental science
Selected publications
University of Michigan Press eBooks · 2026-01-01
book1st authorCorresponding2025-09-19
book-chapter1st authorCorresponding2023-10-19
book-chapter1st authorCorrespondingElise Morrison here recounts her experience with the undergraduate survey course she teaches. She expands on her theory of “adaptation as historiography”—the use of texts from different contexts to teach an idea of artistic change across distance and time.
TDR volume 67 issue 2 Cover and Front matter
TDR/The Drama Review · 2023
- Computer Science
- Computer Science
- Environmental science
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The Heretic · 2023 · 1 citations
1st authorCorresponding- Computer Science
- Philosophy
- Theology
Aquinas’ exposition of the relations between creator and creature has provided an important framework forilluminating aspects of the mystery of the incarnation. He maintains that while creatures are really related toGod, God is not really related to creatures. This doctrine of mixed relations in Aquinas’ theology describesthe character of the relation between God and humanity such that, when Christ incarnates, the doctrine ofimmutability is preserved.
Presence, 2019–2022: Introduction
TDR/The Drama Review · 2022-12-01 · 1 citations
articleOpen accessOur understanding of “presence” has made an epochal shift in the past three years. The field of performance studies—never settled, always in flux—is shifting as well on this topic, as what we study expands digitally, contracts physically, embraces new paradigms, and unlooses others. While it is impossible to fix an exact time when attitudes about something as ineffable yet entirely real as presence changed permanently, this issue touches down on several key moments.
Remote CTRL: Rehearsing Performative Ethics in Theatres of Contemporary War
Theatre Journal · 2021
1st authorCorresponding- Sociology
- Political Science
- Aesthetics
This essay examines how strategies of post-dramatic theatre, which include interactivity, co-determined meaning, and an often deliberately porous relationship between reality and representation, are being employed by performance artists and activists to exert pressure on habits of passive spectatorship and immobilized ethical responsiveness that have been induced by spectacular representations of war in mainstream media, entertainment, and theatrical performance.
TDR/The Drama Review · 2020-08-24
article1st authorCorrespondingSeptember 01 2020 Going Stealth: Transgender Politics and U.S. Surveillance Practices; Performance, Transparency, and the Cultures of Surveillance; Forever Suspect: Racialized Surveillance of Muslim Americans in the War on Terror Going Stealth: Transgender Politics and U.S. Surveillance Practices. By TobyBeauchamp. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2019; 208 pp.; illustrations. $94.95 cloth, $24.95 paper, e-book available.Performance, Transparency, and the Cultures of Surveillance. By James M.Harding. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2018; 326 pp.; illustrations. $80.00 cloth, $34.95 paper, e-book available.Forever Suspect: Racialized Surveillance of Muslim Americans in the War on Terror. By SaherSelod. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2018; 174 pp. $120.00 cloth, $31.95 paper, e-book available. Elise Morrison Elise Morrison Elise Morrison, Assistant Professor of Theater and Performance Studies at Yale University, is the author of Discipline and Desire: Surveillance Technologies in Performance (2016). She is Associate Editor for the International Journal of Performance Art and Digital Media and a TDR Consortium Editor. elise.morrison@yale.edu Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Elise Morrison Elise Morrison, Assistant Professor of Theater and Performance Studies at Yale University, is the author of Discipline and Desire: Surveillance Technologies in Performance (2016). She is Associate Editor for the International Journal of Performance Art and Digital Media and a TDR Consortium Editor. elise.morrison@yale.edu Online Issn: 1531-4715 Print Issn: 1054-2043 ©2020 New York University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology2020New York University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology TDR/The Drama Review (2020) 64 (3 (247)): 184–188. https://doi.org/10.1162/dram_r_00934 Cite Icon Cite Permissions Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Search Site Citation Elise Morrison; Going Stealth: Transgender Politics and U.S. Surveillance Practices; Performance, Transparency, and the Cultures of Surveillance; Forever Suspect: Racialized Surveillance of Muslim Americans in the War on Terror. TDR/The Drama Review 2020; 64: 3 (247), 184–188. doi: https://doi.org/10.1162/dram_r_00934 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentAll JournalsTDR/The Drama Review Search Advanced Search This content is only available as a PDF. ©2020 New York University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology2020New York University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.
Performance and Media: Taxonomies for a Changing Field
TDR/The Drama Review · 2017-05-30
article1st authorCorrespondingJune 01 2017 Performance and Media: Taxonomies for a Changing Field Performance and Media: Taxonomies for a Changing Field. By SarahBay-Cheng, JenniferParker-Starbuck, and David Z.Saltz. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2015; 192 pp.; illustrations. $75.00 cloth, $26.95 paper, e-book available. Elise Morrison Elise Morrison Elise Morrison is Assistant Professor of Performance Studies at Texas A&M University. She is the author of Discipline and Desire: Surveillance Technologies in Performance (University of Michigan Press, 2016). emorrison@tamu.edu Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Elise Morrison Elise Morrison is Assistant Professor of Performance Studies at Texas A&M University. She is the author of Discipline and Desire: Surveillance Technologies in Performance (University of Michigan Press, 2016). emorrison@tamu.edu Online Issn: 1531-4715 Print Issn: 1054-2043 ©2017 New York University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology2017 TDR/The Drama Review (2017) 61 (2 (234)): 173–175. https://doi.org/10.1162/DRAM_r_00655 Cite Icon Cite Permissions Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Search Site Citation Elise Morrison; Performance and Media: Taxonomies for a Changing Field. TDR/The Drama Review 2017; 61: 2 (234), 173–175. doi: https://doi.org/10.1162/DRAM_r_00655 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentAll JournalsTDR/The Drama Review Search Advanced Search This content is only available as a PDF. ©2017 New York University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology2017 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.
University of Michigan Press eBooks · 2016-01-01 · 29 citations
book1st authorCorrespondingDiscipline and Desire examines how surveillance technologies, when placed within the frames of theater and performance, can be used to critique and reimagine the politics of surveillance in everyday life. The book explores how rapidly proliferating surveillance technologies, including drones, CCTV cameras, GPS tracking systems, medical surveillance equipment, and facial recognition software, can be repurposed through performance to become technologies of ethical witnessing, critique, and action. While the subject of surveillance continues to provoke fascination and debate in mainstream media and academia, opportunities to critically reflect upon and, more importantly, to imagine alternative, creative responses to living in a rapidly expanding surveillance society have been harder to find. Author Elise Morrison argues that such opportunities are being created through the growing genre of "surveillance art and performance," defined as works that centrally employ technologies and techniques of surveillance to create theater, installation, and performance art. Introducing readers to a broad range of surveillance art works, including the work of artists and activists such as Surveillance Camera Players, Jill Magid, Steve Mann, Hasan Elahi, Wafaa Bilal, Blast Theory, Electronic Disturbance Theater, George Brant, Janet Cardiff, Mona Hatoum, and Zach Blas, Discipline and Desire provides a practical and analytical framework that can aid the diverse pursuits of new media-arts practitioners, performance scholars, activists, and hobbyists interested in critical and creative uses of surveillance technologies.
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New York University Press
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University of Siegen
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Yale University
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