Dr. Kelly S. Taylor

Education

Ph.D., Louisiana State University, Speech Communication 1990-1994

MA, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Speech Communication 1988-1990

BFA (cum laude), University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Acting 1981-1984

Publications

 

Teaching Experience

Assistant Professor, University of North Texas, September 1996 - Present

Storytelling

Group Interpretation of Literature

Performance Studies

Performance Theory

Seminar on Performance Theory

Basic Course Coordinator, University of Maine at Orono, September 1995 - August 1996

Oral Interpretation of Literature

Fundamentals of Interpersonal Communication

Fundamentals of Public Communication

Lecturer in Speech, University of Texas at Tyler, August 1994 - August 1995

Advanced Public Speaking

Advanced Interpersonal Communication

Forensics and Debate

Graduate Seminar on Gender and Communication

Group Interpretation of Literature

Field Experience in Communication (Forensics)

Intercultural Communication

Graduate Seminar on Intercultural Communication

Graduate Seminar on Nonverbal Communication

Graduate Assistant, Louisiana State University, August 1990 - May 1994

Introduction to the Performance of Literature

Fundamentals of Speech Communication (Public Speaking)

Interpersonal Communication

The Rhetoric of Narrative (with Dr. Mary Frances HopKins, Fall 1991)

Graduate Assistant, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Introduction to the Performance of Literature (Fall 1989, Summer 1990)

Introduction to the Performance of Literature (with Dr. Paul Ferguson andProfessor Martha Nell Hardy, Fall 1988 - Spring 1989)

Family Narratives in Southern Fiction (with Dr. Beverly Whitaker Long, Fall 1989)

Part-time Instructor, Western Piedmont Community College, 1987-1988

Voice and Diction

Introduction to Theatre

Presentations

"The Storytelling Wake" Speech Communication Association Convention, Atlanta, GA 1991

"Nicholas Nickelby: The American Critical Reaction" Speech Communication Association Convention, Atlanta, GA 1991

"A Touch of Difference: Interpersonal Contact in Japanese Animation" Popular Culture Association Convention, Lexington KY 1992

"Anna Cora Mowatt: A Martyr of the Cause" Speech Communication Association Convention, Chicago, IL 1992

"Between Text and Context: Performance Approaches to Contextual Reconstruction" Speech Communication Association Convention, Chicago, IL 1992

"Mimic Life: The World of Victorian Theatre in Pornography and the Writings of Anna Cora Mowatt" Popular Culture Association Convention, New Orleans, 1993

"Exploiting the Medium: Mesmerism and the Strange Case of Anna Cora Mowatt" Speech Communication Association Convention, Miami, FL 1993

"(Insert Your Text Here): A Gallery of Postmodern Images" Speech Communication Association Convention, Miami, FL 1993

"Elvis(m) + Performance = A Hunka' Hunka' Burnin' Texts" Southern States Communication Association Convention, Norfolk, VA 1994

"Fashioning the Charm: The Rhetoric of Anna Cora Mowatt's Autobiography" Southern States Communication Association Convention, Norfolk, VA 1994

"A Fairy's Life: Self Creation in the Poetry of Anna Cora Mowatt" Southern States Communication Association Convention, New Orleans, LA 1995

"Fear, Loathing and Fashion: Self-Creation in Anna Cora Mowatt's Drama" Speech Communication Association Convention, San Antonio, TX 1995

"Documenting Performance in Historical Perspective: Reading and Writing History from/on the Stage" Speech Communication Association Convention, San Antonio, TX 1995

Performance Experience

Directing

"Paula Faye" Louisiana State University, Spring 1993

"The Lost Boy" University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Spring 1990 (Thesis Project)

"The Hill" University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Spring 1994

Acting

Mrs. Clandon, "You Never Can Tell" University of Texas at Tyler, Dec. 1994

Joy/Hulga, "Good Country People" Louisiana State University, Fall 1993

Various Characters, "Juanita's Art of Hair Fashion and the Rise of Discursive Ideologies and Cultural Formations" Louisiana State University, Fall 1992

Alora, "Walking Across Egypt" University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Fall 1989

Frankie Silvers, "They Won't Hang a Woman" Western Piedmont Community College (toured local public schools) Spring 1987

"Word of Mouth" (one-person show) Western Piedmont Community College (toured local public schools) Fall 1986

Ada Lester, "Tobacco Road" University of North Carolina at Greensboroand Parkway Playhouse, Summer 1984

Amanda, "Glass Menagerie" University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Spring 1984

Widow Gaydou/Gustine, "From This Day Forward" (outdoor drama) Valdese, NC 1982-1984 seasons

Research/Teaching Interests

Narrative Theory

The rhetoric of narratives

The role of family narratives in self-fashioning

Theatre History

Solo performance

Women in performance

Lines of demarcation between "legitimate" and "popular" theatre

Japanese traditional and popular drama

Awards/Honors

Artist-in-Residence, Burke Arts Council, 1981

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