Jen P.

Jennifer Pierce is a PhD candidate in the humanities, published author, produced playwright, yadda, yadda.

I have two kids under two. I rarely edit what I write here. Because, man, who has TIME? Read at your own risk.

Publications
Pierce, Jennifer E. “Towards a Poetics of Transubstantiation: the
Performance of Cape Breton Music and Dance” TDR: The Drama Review 52.3 (2008): 44-60

“Emotional Lifeworlds: Toward an Ontology of
Acting” Consciousness, Theatre, Literature and the Arts Dr. Daniel Meyer-Dinkgrafe, ed. Cambridge Scholars Press: Cambridge 2006.

“The Actor Problem: Live and Filmed Performance and
Classical Cognitivism.” Consciousness and the Arts and Literature.
5(3) December 2004.

Performance and Cognition, Drs. Bruce McConachie and Elizabeth Hart, eds. Routledge: Princeton 2006. (Glossary writer , assistant editor).

Papers Accepted at Conferences

“(In)Articulating Meaning: the Cognitive Poetics of Glengarry, Glen Ross” Cognition and Literature Conference, University of Connecticut April, 2006.

“The Magic As If : Acting and Our Emotional Brains.” ASTR Conference,
Toronto, Ontario 2005.

“Emotional ‘Lifeworlds’: a Paradigm Shift in Acting Theory.” ATHE Conference, San Francisco California 2005.

“Emotional ‘Lifeworlds’: a Paradigm Shift in Acting Theory,” Consciousness, Literature, and the Arts Aberstwyth, Wales, United Kingdom, 2005.

“Homage or Sabotage? Self-Reflexive Irony in the “New” American Musical.” The American Musical, Hofstra University, 2003.