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Dr. Jay Allison Departmental Chair Department of Communication
Studies
Office: (940) 565-2588
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After completing a Masters Degree at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (1985), and a Ph.D. at Louisiana State University (1988), Jay Allison joined the faculty in the Department of Communication Studies at the University of North Texas in 1989. He inherited the nationally recognized performance program established at North Texas by Ted Colson. Dr. Allison is an innovative classroom teacher who creates a dynamic classroom environment in which students are challenged to broaden their experiences through exploring performance in its many varieties. His teaching has been recognized by nominations for major teaching awards and on three occasions he has been honored by the Women’s Studies Program with Professing Women Awards. Dr. Allison teaches a wide range of courses including: Performance of Literature, Communication Perspectives, Rhetoric of Performance, Southern Culture and Performance, Narrative Theory, and Intertextuality. Shortly after arriving at North Texas, Dr. Allison launched the Performance Interest Group (PIGs). This group of graduate and undergraduate students, who share an interest in performance studies, meets regularly to share performances with one another and with audiences drawn from across the campus. Meetings occur approximately seven times each semester featuring programs that showcase performances that are created in courses, productions directed by faculty and students, and presentations by faculty or guests. Over the course of his career Dr. Allison has served as director of a number of national performance festivals, including Celebration of Literature (University of South Florida), the Carolinas Fall Festival (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill), the North Texas Performance Festival (University of North Texas), and the Petit Jean Performance Festival (founded by the University of Central Arkansas). Dr. Allison is proud of his long involvement with Text and Performance Quarterly, founded as Literature in Performance. His tenure with the journal began in 1982 when he served as an editorial assistant to founding editor Beverly Whitaker Long. In the intervening years, he has served as an assistant editor, a manuscript reviewer, the Book Review Co-Editor, and the Performance in Review Co-Editor. Currently, he serves on the editorial board for the journal. Dr. Allison also has served on the editorial boards of the Southern Communication Journal and Communication Education. His research interests include narrative theory, performance pedagogy, and critical performance. Dr. Allison has one daughter, Jordan, and lives with his partner, Carl Parker, in Dallas. |
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