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Patrick McKelvey

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Performance historian, disability historian. Disability Works: Performance After Rehabilitation (NYU, 2024) 30% off with code NYUP30 https://nyupress.org/9781479824878/disability-works/ https://linktr.ee/patricktmckelvey

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Patrick McKelvey @pmckelveyphd.bsky.social · 5h

Especially thrilled to be listed alongside ND colleague Tarryn Li-Min Chun, fellow Patrick Patrick Anderson, and pal John Kuhn!

Patrick McKelvey @pmckelveyphd.bsky.social · 5h

Very happy to share that Disability Works is a finalist for ASTR’s Barnard Hewitt Award for Outstanding Research in Theatre History! Thrilled to be in such great company!

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Patrick McKelvey @pmckelveyphd.bsky.social · 18h

Something I’ve learned from this, my eleventh full series rewatch of SVU, is that they frequently refer to folders as “jackets.”

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Patrick McKelvey @pmckelveyphd.bsky.social · 1d

The June Squibb Industrial Complex

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Patrick McKelvey @pmckelveyphd.bsky.social · 1d

The June Squibb Industrial Complex

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Patrick McKelvey @pmckelveyphd.bsky.social · 7d

Sister Act 2: Perestroika

Patrick McKelvey @pmckelveyphd.bsky.social · 7d

I’m sorry but the word lens should have an e at the end. What are we even doing.

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Patrick McKelvey @pmckelveyphd.bsky.social · 7d

just signed up to participate in Fight Back, the historical reenactment of an ACT UP meeting. really hope i get to be Maxine Wolfe.

Patrick McKelvey @pmckelveyphd.bsky.social · 8d

Today I ordered two new books by two of the best and also smartest people I know. You should do the same.

The Violate Man: Male/Male Rape in the American Imagination by Aaron C Thomas

A Movement's Promise: The Making of Contemporary Palestinian Theatre by Samer Al-Saber

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Patrick McKelvey @pmckelveyphd.bsky.social · 10d

Playtime With Truvy in Four Acts

Truvy the whippet approaches catching a ball while her sister ignores her

Truvy looks very snoopy like as she runs toward a ball still far above her

Truvy waits for the ball to fall closer to her snoot

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Patrick McKelvey @pmckelveyphd.bsky.social · 11d

Dem fundraising is now just the Erin Brockovich monologue

Five: that’s the donation I’m asking you to make before the End of Quarter

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Patrick McKelvey @pmckelveyphd.bsky.social · 12d

His name is PJ. The P stands for Patrick. He is a credit card processor and my best friend.

Patrick McKelvey @pmckelveyphd.bsky.social · 12d

Just fulfilled a life goal (spoke a stranger at an airport bar for two hours). Next up: a hairdresser who banters.

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Patrick McKelvey @pmckelveyphd.bsky.social · 12d

Live music is terrible and someone needs to say it. (Empowered by the guy doing eagles covers at this airport bar)

Patrick McKelvey @pmckelveyphd.bsky.social · 19d

It would seem that I missed an email and Disability Works ALSO won the Book of the Year Award for the National Communication Association’s GLBTQ Communication Studies Division!!!!

Book award announcement described in post

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Patrick McKelvey @pmckelveyphd.bsky.social · 20d

lol thought I had cropped this screenshot

Patrick McKelvey @pmckelveyphd.bsky.social · 20d

Over the moon to share that Disability Works received the National Communication Association’s Lilla A. Heston Award for Outstanding Scholarship in Interpretation and Performance Studies!

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Patrick McKelvey @pmckelveyphd.bsky.social · 25d

2) 2) Naomi Fair and Eunhye Grace Lee's essay on recent titles by Camille Owens, Isabel Millán, Mary Zaborskis, and Anastasia Todd
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Patrick McKelvey @pmckelveyphd.bsky.social · 25d

1) Nicholas Fesette's essay take on recent titles by Orisanmi Burton, Robin Bernstein, Holly M. Karibo, Melanie Newport and Doran Larson
doi-org.pitt.idm.oclc.org/10.1353/aq.2...

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Patrick McKelvey @pmckelveyphd.bsky.social · 25d

New issue of American Quarterly is out and it features the first two review essays Selina Lai-Henderson and I commissioned as book review editors! Check out

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Patrick McKelvey @pmckelveyphd.bsky.social · 28d

Review # 7 of Disability Works is out in the Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism!

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Project MUSE - <i>Disability Works: Performance After Rehabilitation</i> by Patrick McKelvey (review)

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Patrick McKelvey @pmckelveyphd.bsky.social · Sep 6

thanks so much for doing this for AQ and the field!

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Nick Fesette @nfesette.bsky.social · Sep 6

Check my review essay of recent titles in carceral studies by Orisanmi Burton, @robinmbernstein.bsky.social Holly Karibo @melanienewport.bsky.social and Doran Larson. Just published in American Quarterly. Many thanks to editor @pmckelveyphd.bsky.social

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Patrick McKelvey @pmckelveyphd.bsky.social · Sep 5

Grateful to have Review # 6 of "Disability Works" out in H-Disability!

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Garratt on Mckelvey, 'Disability Works: Performance After Rehabilitation' | H-Net

Mckelvey, Patrick. Disability Works: Performance After Rehabilitation. : New York University Press, 2024. 336 pp. $32.00 (paper), ISBN 9781479824878. Reviewed by Rachel Garratt (Independent Scholar) P...

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anthony petro @apetro.bsky.social · Sep 1

Notre Dame is running a search for the next Annenberg Chair in American Studies and Journalism (associate or full). Candidates will be expected to direct and teach courses for the Gallivan Program in Journalism, Ethics, and Democracy.

Applications due by Oct 15!

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