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Dox, Donnalee

Dr.

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Professor, Performance Studies, College of Liberal Arts

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dox@tamu.edu

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Dr. Dox's current research focuses on the mental and physical effects of contemplative practice situated in religious traditions. She is serving as Associate Head of Performance Studies, and previously served a term as Head. She has served as Director of the Interdisciplinary Program in Religious Studies and is currently a faculty member in the CLLA Critical Interdiscplinary Studies unit, which now houses the Religious Studies programs. She served as the first Associate Director of the Glasscock Center for Humanities Research and briefly as the Center's Acting Director.

education and training

Ph.D. in Theatre History, University of Minnesota - (Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States) 1995
M.A. in Drama, Catholic University of America - (Washington D.C., District of Columbia, United States) 1988
B.A. in Religion, Gettysburg College - (Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, United States) 1982

selected publications

Academic Articles20

Harmon, J. T., & Dox, D. (2016). Spirituality, Fan Culture, and the Music of Jerry Joseph & the Jackmormons. Leisure Sciences. 38(3), 268-283.
Dox, D. (2013). Processes of Experience. Paranthropology: Journal of Anthropological Approaches to the Paranormal. 4(3), 48-53.
Dox, D. (2010). Ceremonial Embodiment: The Problem of Liturgical Drama. Ecumenica: Journal of Theatre and Performance. 3(2), 31-41.
Dox, D. (2009). The Willing Sustenance of Belief: Religiosity and Mode of Performance. The Journal of Religion and Theatre. 8(1), 20-47.
Dox, D. (2006). Dancing Around Orientalism. TDR/The Drama Review. 50(4), 52-71.

Books2

Dox, D. (2016). Reckoning with Spirit in the Paradigm of Performance. University of Michigan Press.
Dox, D. (2004). The idea of the theater in Latin Christian thought: Augustine to the fourteenth century.

Chapters7

Dox, D. (2013). Theater. Runehov, A., & Oviedo, L. (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Sciences and Religions. 2230-2239. Springer Netherlands.
Dox, D. (2011). Spiritual Logic from Ritual Bodies. Gharavi, L. (Eds.), Religion, Theatre, and Performance Acts of Faith. 42-62. Routledge.
Dox, D. (2005). Spirit from the Body: ‘Belly Dance’ as a Spiritual Practice. Shay, A. n., & Sellers-Young, B. (Eds.), Belly Dance Orientalism, Transnationalism, and Harem Fantasy. 304-341. Mazda Pub.
Dox, D. (2004). Dance. Horowitz, M. C. (Eds.), New Dictionary of the History of Ideas. 532-535. Charles Scribner's Sons.
Dox, D. (2004). Flesh of the World: The Art and Practice of Dunya McPherson. Analecta Husserliana. Tymieniecka, A. (Eds.), Metamorphosis. 195-202. Springer Netherlands.