Tamara Underiner

Theatre, Performance and Theories of Change, with co-editor Stephani Etheridge Woodson. London:  Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.  

Theatre Histories:  An Introduction, currently at work on 4th edition, with editor Tobin Nellhaus and co-authors Daphne Lei and Patricia Ybarra.  Co-author of 3rd edition with Nellhaus, Bruce McConachie and Carol Fisher Sorgenfrei.  London and New York:  Routledge, 2016.  

Contemporary Theatre in Mayan Mexico:  Death Defying Acts. University of Texas Press, 2004. Spanish translation, Universidad Veracruzana, 2017.

“Of Models and Mechanisms: Theatre making as ‘intervention’ in individual health and wellness,” co-authors Seline Szkupinski Quiroga, Stephani Etheridge Woodson, and with Robert Farid Karimi. RIDE: The Journal of Applied Theatre and Performance 22:4 (2017), 465-81

"Moveable Feasts and Immovable Paradigms:  Can Theatre Artists and Health Scientists Cook, Eat and Play Well Together?”  In Food and Theatre on the World Stage, eds. Dorothy Chansky and Ann Folino White. New York: Routledge, 2015, 189-206. Co-authored with Stephani Etheridge Woodson.    

“Redemption.” Ecumenica: Journal of Theatre and Performance v 7.1 and 7.2 (Fall 2014): 79-83.

Winham, Donna, Seline Szkupinski Quiroga, Tamara Underiner, Stephani Etheridge Woodson, and Megan Todd. “Integration of Theater Activities in Cooking Workshops Improves Healthy Attitudes Among Ethnically Diverse Adolescents.” A Pilot Study. Infant, Child, & Adolescent Nutrition Journal.  Vol. 6 no. 2 (April 2014): 99-108.

“Cruel Mercies and Tender Ecstasies:  An Introduction to the Work of Caridad Svich.” Critical introduction to “Instructions for Breathing” and Other Plays by Caridad Svich, Seagull Press, 2014.

“Living Between Two or More Cultures: On the Interventions of PUENTE’s Community- Engaged Theatre.”  In New Essays on Canadian Theatre, vol. 3, eds. Natalie Alvarez and Ric Knowles. Playwrights Canada Press (Toronto), 2013:  62-86.

“Burning Texts:  Indigenous Dramaturgy on the Continent of Life.” Indigenous American Drama: A Multivocal History, ed. Birgit Däwes.  Albany:  SUNY Press, 2013:  63-76.

“Plain Speech Acts: Reading Quakerism with Theatre and Performance Studies.”  Religion, Theatre and Performance:  Acts of Faith, ed. Lance Gharavi.  London:  Routledge, 2012: 100 – 114. 

“Playing at Border-Crossing in an Indigenous Community in Mexico. . . Seriously.”  TDR:  The Drama Review Summer 2011, Vol. 55, No. 2 (T210): 11–32.

“Violence Averted only to Return:  Visiting the Archive of ‘Pocahontas Plays’.” Violence in American Drama: Essays on Staging, Meanings and Effects, eds. Alfonso Ceballos Muñoz, Ramón Espejo Romero and Bernardo Muñoz Martinez. Jefferson, NC:  McFarland, 2011:  28 – 43. 

“Staging the Mestiza Subject in Recent Yucatecan Theatre.” In Representaciones Culturales:  Imágenes e imaginación de lo yucateco (Cultural Representations:  Images and Imagination of Yucatecan Identity), eds. Steffan Igor Ayora Diaz and Gabriela Vargas Cetina,.  Mérida: Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán in Mérida, 2010. 

“The Demon’s Nun:  FOMMA and the Embodied Politics of Gendered Visibility in Mayan Mexico.” Theatre Research International Vol. 35, No. 2 (July 2010): 178-182.

“Caracol:  Transcontinental Substantiations in the Recent Work of Coatlicue Theatre Company.” Baylor Journal of Theatre and Performance special issue “Nations Speaking:  Indigenous Performance Across the Americas” vol. 4.1 (2007): 55-72.

“Unmasking Mayan Mexico.”  American Theatre May/June 2005.  Excerpt from my Contemporary Theatre in Mayan Mexico.  28-ff.

“Siete momentos en la vida maya:  Performance, Tourism, and Mayan Identity on the Yucatán Peninsula.  E-misférica 2.1 (Spring 2005).  Journal of the Hemispheric Institute for Performance and Politics. 

“Notes from the Ivory Labyrinth of Solitude.”  Theatre Journal 56:3 (Oct., 2004), 449-452.

"Intercultural Negotiations:  Contemporary Mayan Theatre in Mexico." Latin American Literary Cultures: A Comparative History.  Volume I: Configurations of Literary Culture. Eds. Mario J. Valdes and D. Kadir.  New York:  Oxford University Press, 2004. 

"Opening the Shaman's Bag:  Latino Theatre, Mixed Audiences, and Tourist Logic." The State of Latino Theater in the United States: Hybridity, Transculturation and Identity. Ed. Luis Ramos-García. New York and London:  Routledge, 2002: 181-196.

"Incidents of Theatre in Chiapas, Tabasco and Yucatán:  Cultural Enactments in Mayan Mexico," Theatre Journal 50 (October, 1998):  349-369.