Shannon Jackson


Shannon Jackson is the Cyrus and Michelle Hadidi Professor of Rhetoric and of Theater, Dance and Performance Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, where she is also Associate Vice Chancellor of Art and Design.

Career

Her main academic areas of interest are performance studies, 20th century art, critical theory, questions of artistic labor, interdisciplinary collaboration, history and theory of theater and performance art. Her publications include Lines of Activity: Performance, Historiography, Hull-House Domesticity, published by Michigan University Press in 2001, Professing Performance: Theatre in the Academy from Philology to Performativity, published by Cambridge University Press in 2004, Social Works: Performing Art, Supporting Publics, published by Routledge in 2011. With Marianne Weems she co-authored The Builders Association: Media and Performance in Contemporary Theater, published by MIT Press in 2015. Jackson has guest-edited an issue of the journal Art Practical, "Valuing Labor in the Arts," as well as an issue of Representations, "Time Zones: Durational Art and Its Contexts" with Julia Bryan-Wilson.
In 2014 Jackson was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship. She was the recipient of the University of California, Berkeley Distinguished Service Award, Division of Arts and Humanities in 2011. Her other awards include the Lilla A. Heston Award for Outstanding Scholarship in Interpretation and Performance Studies in 2005, the ATHE Outstanding Book Award, and an Honorable Mention for the 2002 John Hope Franklin Prize of the American Studies Association.