• Theatre

  • Alberto Guevara

  • Associate Professor

Alberto Guevara profile image

E aguevara@yorku.ca

EDUCATION

BA (Concordia), MA (York), PhD (Concordia)

BIOGRAPHY

Originally from Nicaragua, Professor Guevara has harbored a lifelong interest in the intersections of theatre, performance and politics. During the Nicaraguan Sandinista government he participated in a cultural brigade, received training at the National Theatre School and was a member of Alan Bolt’s Nyxtayoleros Theatre. He has collaborated in a number of inter-cultural theatre organizations including Teatro Sin Fronteras (Toronto), Mise au Jeu (Montreal), Théâtre autochtone Ondinnok (Montreal), Dalit Theatre Group (Nepal), Act!vision (Lethbridge) and Chocolate Woman Collective (Toronto). He received an interdisciplinary PhD from Concordia University in Theatre, Social Anthropology and Communications.

Professor Guevara’s scholarly work focuses on a number of interconnected areas, including the theatricality of power, performance and nationalism – with a focus on the contestation of dominant narratives, art and revolution, theatre for social change, Indigenous art and performance, the aesthetics of violence and affliction, the body in performance, and ethnographic methods. A unique strength of his scholarship and teaching is his combination of contemporary performance theory and ethnographic methodologies. Thus, while field research forms the backbone of his performance studies scholarship in Nepal and Nicaragua, the measurable outcomes of this research are diverse and include: documentary films, exhibitions, performances, and an interdisciplinary open-access online journal InTensions http://www.yorku.ca/intent/index.html. He has published in Visual Anthropology Review, The Applied Theatre Researcher/IDEA, 452F: Journal of Literary Theory and Comparative Literature, and Intensions among others. His film work has been shown internationally at venues such as DOXA Documentary Film Festival, Planet in Focus Environmental, International Film and Video Festival, The RAI: Royal Anthropological Institute International Festival of Ethnographic Films, and ASPEKTY among others.

Theatre

People of AMPD

Sessional Assistant Professor

Courtney Ch'ng Lancaster

Assistant Professor

Jackie Chau

Administrative Staff

Julia Kenny

Administrative Staff

Divya Mehta

Assistant Professor

Danielle A.D. Howard

Assistant Professor

Rebecca Caines

Assistant Professor

Jamie Robinson

Administrative Staff

Mary Pecchia

Professor

Marlis Schweitzer

Technical Staff

Christina Cicko

Assistant Professor

Gavin McDonald

Assistant Professor

Aaron Kelly

Professor

Sarah Bay-Cheng

Contract Faculty

Allyson McMackon

Contract Faculty

David Smukler

Contract Faculty

Laurel Paetz

Contract Faculty

Aleksandar Lukac

Contract Faculty

Niki Landau

Contract Faculty

Michael Kelly

Contract Faculty

Jennifer Triemstra-Johnston

Contract Faculty

Laura Jayne Nelles

Contract Faculty

Lisa Magill

Contract Faculty

Jareth Li

Associate Professor

Sylvia Defend

Contract Faculty

Michael Cuttini

Contract Faculty

David Rayfield

Contract Faculty

Steve Ross

Associate Professor

Ian Garrett

Associate Professor

Gwenyth Dobie

Associate Professor

Magdalena Kazubowski-Houston

Professor Emeritus

Paula Thomson

Professor Emeritus

Anthony Stephenson

Professor Emeritus

Ron Singer

Professor Emeritus

David Rotenberg

Professor Emeritus

Jeff Henry

Professor Emeritus

Robert Fothergill

Professor Emeritus

Jill Courtney

Professor Emeritus

Douglas Buck

Professor Emeritus

Keith Bradley

Professor Emeritus

David Bentley Boice

Associate Professor

Belarie Hyman Zatzman

Associate Professor

Mark Wilson

Professor Emeritus

Ross Stuart

Professor Emeritus

Phillip Silver

Professor Emerita

Judith Rudakoff

Professor Emeritus

Donald Rubin

Professor

Teresa Przybylski

Professor

Peter McKinnon

Associate Professor

James McKernan

Associate Professor

John Mayberry

Associate Professor

Laura Levin

Professor Emeritus

Paul Lampert

Associate Professor

Shawn Kerwin

Associate Professor

Alberto Guevara

Associate Professor

Michael Greyeyes

Associate Professor

Ines Buchli

Associate Professor

Erika Batdorf

Professor Emerita

Elizabeth Asselstine

Associate Professor

Eric Armstrong