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Relationship initiation: Bridging the gap between initial attraction and well-functioning communal relationships
No full textThis chapter addresses the question of how people form mutually responsive close relationships, including friendships and romantic relationships, that, in turn, may become family relationships. It begins by discussing characteristics of well functioning friendships and romantic relationships. The chapter considers what conditions in a person and in a potential partner lead to initial attraction and openness to initiating these relationships. It includes a brief review of some extant theories of relationship initiation. The chapter presents a model of relationship initiation. It holds that people start with an active goal of enhancing their sense of belonging and security, and then pursue three subgoals in the service of this overarching goal to establish a new communal relationship: Strategic self-presentation as a good and communal partner, self-protection lest they be subject to painful rejection, and partner evaluation. Pursuit of these three goals simultaneously combines to produce a dance of relationship initiation
“Dialectics Got the Upper Hand: Fanon, Violence, and the Quest[ion] of Liberation”
No full textA discussion of the question of violence through a critical engagement with recent writings of Gordon, Mbembe, and Ciccariello-Mahe
The Chapter, The Pedagogy of Co-Directing: Training the Next Generation of Theatre Directors Using the World Wide Lab (WWL) Model, is a part of The Directors Lab, Evan Tsitsias (ed)
No full textSince its establishment in 2010, the World Wide Lab (WWL) has served as an incubator for experimenting with different models of co-direction, that is to say when more than one director is at the helm of a production. The focus of this chapter is to investigate this model of creating, working, and collaborating and how this model could transfer pedagogically in training the next generation of theatre directors
Dark Forces at Work: Essays on Social Dynamics and Cinematic Horrors
No full textDark Forces at Work examines the role of race, class, gender, religion, and the economy as they are portrayed in, and help construct, horror narratives across a range of films and eras. These larger social forces not only create the context for our cinematic horrors, but serve as connective tissue between fantasy and lived reality, as well. While several of the essays focus on “name” horror films such as IT, Get Out, Hellraiser, and Don’t Breathe, the collection also features essays focused on horror films produced in Asia, Europe, and Latin America, and on American classic thrillers such as Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho. Key social issues addressed include the war on terror, poverty, the housing crisis, and the Time’s Up movement. The volume grounds its analysis in the films, rather than theory, in order to explore the ways in which institutions, identities, and ideologies work within the horror genre
Marion and Jasper Whiting Foundation Fellowship
No full textMarion and Jasper Whiting Foundation Fellowshi
“Fighting Invisibility: Indigenous Citizens and History in El Salvador and Guatemala”
No full textLead co-author, with Michelle Bellin
Core intercultural conflict communication practices: Insights from diverse fields.
No full textReview and model of the core competencies for managing intercultural conflic