Killian Manning
Lecturer
Office: 117 McIver
Phone: 336-334-5297
Email: kemannin@uncg.edu
Degrees
- Ph.D. University of Utah (Communication) Performing Utopian Visions: Art(iculation) in the Age of AIDS
- M.A. University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (Communication) Vanity: A History (with Mirrors) in 3/4 Time
- M.T.S. Boston University (Theology)
- B.A. Auburn University (German)
Scholarly interests
Performance Studies, cultural studies, feminist theory, aesthetics
Courses taught
- CST 105 Introduction to Communication
- CST 210 Communication Ethics
- CST 341 Business and Professional Communication
- CST 460 Cases in Applied Communication: Communication and Prejudice
- CST 460 Cases in Applied communication: Performance Studies
- CST 576 Communication, Play, and Creativity
Recent research/Work in progress
- September 2005 Appearing with the Carolina Ballet as the Nurse in “Romeo and Juliet,” Raleigh, NC
- November 2005 Article in progress: "Romeo and Juliet Redux: Examining the Cultural Cache of a Classic"
- November 2005 Paper presentation at NCA Boston: “Outraged And Outrageous: Mental Illness in the Work of Diamanda Galás”
- January 2006 Choreographing/directing “Thirty-Seven Shades of Pink,” an evening length performance at the Durham Arts Council, Durham, NC
- May 2006 Choreographing/directing “One by One by Once Upon a Time,” at Manbites Dog Theater, Durham, NC. In this dance-theater piece, Manning and long-time collaborator Derrick Ivey explore the nature of relationships, both famous and mundane. Manning and Ivey will croon, carouse, waltz and whine their way through a mini-master narrative, picking it apart as they go, one by one, into the kingdom of "happily ever after."
