Dr. Justin Thomas Trudeau

 Assistant Professor

EDUCATION

PH.D.               Communication Studies, Louisiana State University , Baton Rouge , LA 2006
                        Area of Emphasis:  Performance Studies
                        Dissertation Title: Jack Kerouac’s Spontaneous Prose: A Performance Genealogy of The Fiction
                        (Michael Bowman, Dissertation Chair)

M.A.I.S.           Speech Communication, Oregon State University (OSU), Corvallis , OR 1998
                       Area of Emphasis:  Rhetorical Criticism
                      Thesis:  Theodore Dwight Weld’s Use of the Judicial Motif in American Slavery As It Is: Testimony of a Thousand Witnesses
                      (Robert Iltis, Advisor)

B.S.                  Speech Communication, Oregon State University (OSU) Corvallis , OR 1995
                        Speech Communication

 TEACHING AND RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

2006-                Assistant Professor—Department of Communication Studies, University of

                          North Texas, Denton , TX

2005-2006                  Instructor—Department of Communication Studies, University of North

Texas , Denton , TX

1999-2005         Graduate Teaching Assistant—Department of Communication Studies, Louisiana

                        State University , Baton Rouge , LA

2003-2004         Assistant to the Editor—Michael Bowman, Text and Performance Quarterly

Department of Communication Studies, Louisiana State University , Baton Rouge ,

LA

1996-1998                  Graduate Teaching Assistant—Department of Speech Communication, Oregon

State University , Corvallis , OR

Courses taught include:  Postwar Performance Culture and The U.S. American Avant-Garde, Performance Art, Performance Theory, Introduction to Performing Literature, Public Speaking, Argumentation, Speech Fundamentals, Interpersonal Communication

UNIVERSITY AND PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

Mondo Bizzaro Productions

            Member, Board of Supervisors and Artistic Advisor.  A non-profit (501-c-3) organization

based in New Orleans .  2002-Present.

  Louisiana State University

            Director, 2040 Introduction to Performing Literature Showcase  2001-2003.  

Member, Department of Communication Studies Black Box Theatre Advisory Board,

            1999-2000, 2001-2002

  Oregon State University

Commissioner, Martin Luther King Jr. Commission, Corvallis , OR 1997-1998

 PUBLICATIONS and PROFESSIONAL PRESENTATIONS

Publication in a Peer-Reviewed Journal

Trudeau, Justin T.  “Jack Kerouac’s Spontaneous America: A Performance Genealogy of

            The Postwar Avant-Garde.”  Kaleidoscope: A Graduate Journal of Qualitative

Communication Research 3 (Fall 2004): 43-62.

Invited Publication

Trudeau, Justin T. “’Transnational Flows of Performance: Identity in the Age of Globalization’ at

            Northwestern University.”  Perforum: A Newsletter of the Performance Studies

            Division of the National Communication Association 10.2 (Fall 2004) 12-13.

 Presentations at Professional Conferences

2006 Southern States Communications Association Convention, Dallas , TX

            Panelist, “Specters of Performance: Bodies, Histories, Hauntology.”

            Paper, “Specters in the Rear-View: Haunting Identity in Jack Kerouac’s

            On the Road.”

2006 Southern States Communication Association Convention, Dallas , TX

            Workshop Participant, “Documenting Creative Achievement in Promotion Binders for

Performance Studies and Theatre Faculty.”

2006 Southern States Communication Association Convention, Dallas , TX

            Respondent, “Post-Katrina Performance: Witnessing, Recovery, and Activism.”

2006 Southern States Communication Association Convention, Dallas , TX

            Moderator, “Readers Theatre in the 21^st Century.”

2005 Southern States Communication Association Convention, Baton Rouge , LA

            Panelist, “Autoperformance: Images that Haunt, Identities that Won’t Sit Still For a

Picture.”  Paper: “My Grandfather Was An Artist.” 

 2004 Louisiana Communication Association Convention, New Orleans , LA

            Panelist, “To (Re)Present Past and Future: Fantasy, Chaos, and the Specter of

            Identity.”  Paper: “Specters in the Rear-View: Haunting Identity in Jack

            Kerouac’s On the Road.”

 2004 Louisiana Communication Association Convention, New Orleans , LA

            Panelist, “Mondo Bizarro: From Performance Studies to Community Arts

            Organization.”

 2003 National Communication Association Convention, Miami , FL            

Panelist, “Genealogies of Performance: (RE)Constructing the Past IN/THROUGH

The Present.”  Paper: “Jack Kerouac’s Spontaneous America: A Performance Genealogy of The Postwar Avant-Garde.” 

2000 Southern States Communication Association Convention, New Orleans , LA

            Panelist, “Problems in Postmodern Performance, Praxis and Pedagogy.”  Paper: 

            “Defamiliarizing the Defamiliar: Pedagogy of Gestus in the Classroom.”

Lectures

2003 Departmental Colloquium, Louisiana State University , Baton Rouge , LA

            Invited Lecturer, “Performing Spontaneity: Kerouac on Narrative Being”

 2003 Invited Guest Performer/Lecturer, English Graduate Seminar on Autobiography.

Louisiana State University , Baton Rouge , LA.   Paper/Performance, “1,2,3…”     

 Honors/Awards

Fellow.  The Center for Global Culture and Communication, Summer Institute 2004.

            “Transnational Flows of Performance: Identity in the Age of Globalization.”

            Northwestern University, Evanston , IL

DIRECTING and PERFORMANCE EXPERIENCE

    Direction and Original Adaptations

“1,2,3…”  By Justin Trudeau.  Directed and performed by Justin Trudeau.  “Across Disciplines:

Performance Research and Response”.  Performance Studies Black Box, Louisiana State

University, 2002.

 On the Road.  By Jack Kerouac.  Adapted, directed and performed by Bruce France, Nick Slie

and Justin Trudeau.  Performance Studies Black Box, Louisiana State University , 2001. 

 “Elijah Lovejoy and the Gestus of Freedom.”  A performance based on the speech made by

Wendell Phillips.  Adapted, directed and performed by Justin Trudeau.  “Across

Disciplines: Performance Research and Response”.  Performance Studies Black Box,

Louisiana State University , 2000.

 Performance Experience          

Performer, ensemble cast.  “Body Maps.”  Adapted and Directed by Tim Miller.  Mary Frances

            Hopkins Black Box Theatre , Louisiana State University, 2004.

Performer, role of King and Professor.  The Little Prince.  By Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. 

Adapted and Directed by Mondo Bizzaro Productions.  New Orleans , LA 2004.

Performer, role of Tomas.  The Unbearable Lightness of Being.  By Milan Kundera.  Adapted and

Directed by Tracy Stephenson.  Performance Studies Black Box, Louisiana State

University, 2003.

Performer, role of Starbuck.  Moby Dick.  By Herman Melville.  Adapted and Directed by Ruth

Laurion Bowman.  Performance Studies Black Box, Louisiana State University , 2002.                                         

Performer, role of Eggbert Craddock Cummings, Narrator.  “Contagion, or the Sad Story of a

Performance Critic.”  By Craig Gingrich-Philbrook and Michael Bowman.  Based on a

story by H.G. Wells.  Directed by Michael Bowman.  Performance Studies Black Box,

Louisiana State University , 2000.                                   

Performer, ensemble cast.  “Picture This: Renderings of ‘On the Deck’ by Donald Barthelme. 

Adapted and Directed by Ruth Laurion Bowman.  Performance Studies Black Box,

Louisiana State University , 1999.

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

National Communication Association (NCA)
Southern States Communication Association (SSCA)