About
Patrick Anderson is a Professor in the departments of Communication, Ethnic Studies, and Critical Gender Studies at the University of California, San Diego, and a 2023 Guggenheim Fellow. He is an accomplished author, having written The Lamentations: A requiem for queer suicide (Fordham University Press, 2024), Autobiography of a Disease (Routledge, 2017), and So Much Wasted: Hunger, performance, and the morbidity of resistance (Duke University Press, 2010). Additionally, he co-edited Violence Performed: Local roots and global routes of conflict (Palgrave, 2009) with Jisha Menon and co-edits the “Performance Works” book series at Northwestern University Press with Nicholas Ridout. Anderson has held leadership roles including Director of the Critical Gender Studies program and founding facilitator for the Social Justice Practicum at UC San Diego, Vice President of the American Society for Theatre Research, and Editorial Board member for the University of California Press. In 2018, he was appointed by the Mayor and City Council of San Diego to the Community Review Board on Police Practices, later the Commission on Police Practices, serving two full terms in this community oversight role. Anderson is a former Fulbright Scholar and Berkeley Fellow. He earned his PhD in Performance Studies with a Designated Emphasis in Women, Gender, and Sexuality from the University of California, Berkeley; an MA in Communication and Cultural Studies from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; and a BS in Performance Studies and Anthropology from Northwestern University. In 2020, he completed his Death Doula certification at the University of Vermont.
Research topics
- Medicine
- Sociology
- Political Science
- History
- Nursing
- Biology
- Gender studies
- Psychology
- Pathology
- Law
- Public administration
- Gerontology
- Media studies
- Geography
- Ancient history
- Endocrinology
Selected publications
Cambridge University Press eBooks · 2024-02-01
book-chapterSenior author<p dir="ltr">This conversation between Patrick Anderson and Natalie Alvarez focuses on how to do collaborative research, bridge incommensurable differences through understanding, and enjoin researchers’ subjectivity with those with whom they are in conversation. Featured situations for ethical consideration include community–police liaisons and consulting on police training. Considering the tensions between the professional prerogatives of the researcher and the ethics of the participant–observer relationship, one must ask who the research is for, who benefits from it, and how to present, experience, and advocate ethical alignments. Academics’ labour, situatedness, and intersectionality may affect Institutional Review Board (IRB) processes and the stakes of working with communities and academic institutions.
Études irlandaises · 2024-01-01
articleOpen access1st authorCorrespondingSlimane Hargas misrepresents the aim of my book, its comparative methods, and he misquotes.The aim of the study was to “evaluate Chomsky’s proposition that media output lends itself to a portrait of the world useful to power” (p. 302).Remarkably, Hargas writes: “Anderson […] denies […] widespread French torture, its institutionalised character, and impunity for practitioners”. However, I wrote, “France and Britain pioneered and exported the modern techniques of torture” (p. 131). Further, Fr...
Studies in Musical Theatre · 2023-12-01
article1st authorCorrespondingThis article reflects on the allegorical queerness of one of Stephen Sondheim’s most popular and celebrated musicals, Sunday in the Park with George . The author recalls his first experience of the musical – the televised version of the original Broadway production in the mid-1980s – at a moment when his own adolescent queerness was beginning to find voice, and examines Sondheim’s subtle and typically unmarked incorporation of queerness into his work. Against popular commentaries that have criticized Sondheim’s lack of explicitly articulated queer content in his work (and in his public life), the author argues that Sondheim invites and invokes space within his musicals for queerness that can thrive without necessarily being named.
Is This Ballroom a Bathhouse? The Promise and Peril of Coming Together
Theatre Journal · 2022
1st authorCorresponding- Political Science
- Sociology
- Gender studies
This essay examines queer responses to the first wave of the HIV/AIDS epidemic alongside public health practices at a recent ASTR conference held during the COVID-19 pandemic. The authors focus especially on the period between the identification of the HIV virus in 1983 and the first availability of protease inhibitors in 1996. Within this period, queer practices of care in the face of government neglect engaged with performance, and in retrospect were themselves a form of performance theory that literalized performance studies' fixation on liveness and mortality. As the authors revisit archives, including public health videos, memoirs, congressional hearings, and queer criticism from the 1980s and '90s, they reconsider the work of Cindy Patton, David Román, Douglas Crimp, Eric Michaels, Gary Fisher, Herbert Blau, and Reza Abdoh in the elaboration of performance as vital to the collective project of public health.
International Journal of Gynecological Pathology · 2022 · 4 citations
Senior authorCorresponding- Pathology
- Biology
- Medicine
We report a case of a cystic ovarian neoplasm in a 76-yr-old female composed of 2 distinct and intimately associated components: a macrocystic adult granulosa cell tumor (AGCT) and a serous borderline tumor. The granulosa cell nature of the tumor was confirmed with positive immunohistochemical staining for inhibin, calretinin, and WT1, while the neoplastic nature of the granulosa cell proliferation was supported by the presence of a point mutation of the FOXL2 gene. A review of 19 previously reported mixed AGCT and epithelial neoplasms of the ovary is included. Of the eight mixed AGCT and epithelial tumors, including our case, that were tested for FOXL2 mutation, 4 of the 5 mutation-positive cases were notable for demonstrating a macroscopically visible nodule or mass of AGCT at the time of gross examination, while 2 of the 3 mutation-negative cases lacked a mass-producing granulosa cell component. This feature by itself may be sufficient to predict the true neoplastic nature of the granulosa cell proliferation. This is the first reported case of a composite neoplastic AGCT and serous borderline tumor. We also discuss the current histogenetic models for these rare mixed AGCT and epithelial tumors.
2021-06-28 · 1 citations
book1st authorCorrespondingThe Five-Year Life-cycle of the Hawaiian Republic, 1893–1898
2021-05-20 · 1 citations
book-chapter1st authorCorresponding2021-05-20
book-chapter1st authorCorrespondingDe quel « parler » s’agit-il ?
La clinique lacanienne · 2021-01-28
article1st authorCorrespondingSun Yatsen and the Hawaiian Star
2021-05-20
book-chapter1st authorCorresponding
Recent grants
NIH · $1.7M · 1995
NIH · $243k · 1989
Frequent coauthors
- 40 shared
Scott D. Watkins
Anderson University - Indiana
- 36 shared
Blaise Fernandes
The Asiatic Society of Mumbai
- 36 shared
Gary S. Fields
Oxford University Press (United Kingdom)
- 36 shared
Laura Serna
University of California, Los Angeles
- 36 shared
Saleem Ahmadullah
New York University
- 36 shared
Sarah Banet‐Weiser
California University of Pennsylvania
- 36 shared
Suvir Kaul
- 36 shared
M Kellogg
Illumina (United States)
Education
- 2005
PhD, Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies
University of California, Berkeley
- 1999
MA, Communication Studies
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- 1996
BS, Performance Studies & Anthropology
Northwestern University
Awards & honors
- 2023 Guggenheim Fellow
- Community Review Board on Police Practices (served two full…
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