Name:	Patrick Anderson, Assistant Professor of Communication. on leave until Spring 2008. Affiliated Faculty: Critical Gender Studies Program and Department of Ethnic Studies. pwa@ucsd.edu
Education:	Ph.D. (University of California, Berkeley) - Performance Studies; Designated Emphasis in Women, Gender, and Sexuality M.A. (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) - Communication Studies and Cultural Studies B.S. (Northwestern University) - Performance Studies and Anthropology
Research:	Patrick Anderson works at the intersection of performance studies and cultural studies. His background includes training and experience in theater and dance, film, cultural studies, queer and gender studies, ethnic studies, political geography, psychoanalysis, and anthropology. He is currently at work on two books. The first explores the cultural and political implications of three forms self-starvation: anorexia nervosa, staged fasting, and hunger strikes. The second is an edited anthology of transnational studies of violence from scholars working in performance studies and visual culture. Anderson has worked with a variety of community organizations, including the Berkeley Free Clinic (as a volunteer medic, educator, and planner for uninsured and under-served communities), several chapters of Stop AIDS (as a counselor and educator), community-based performance and film groups in Chicago and Chapel Hill (as an artistic director), literacy schools in the San Francisco Bay Area (as an educator and supervisor), and anti-war activists in Kandy and Colombo, Sri Lanka (as an advocate and writer). He has written, directed, and performed for professional theater and film in the United States, the United Kingdom, New Zealand, and Sri Lanka. He is committed to promoting interdisciplinary scholarly work that bridges the divide traditionally represented by university walls.
Recent Publications:	"Trying Ordeal: Henry Tanner and Chris Burden in the Event of Subjectivity," Radical History Review 98 (Spring 2007). "Machong," Performance Studies International, Available online at <http://www.psi-web.org/texts/dwight%20text.htm>. "On Feeding Tubes," TDR 49:3 (Fall 2005). "'To Lie Down to Death for Days': The Turkish Hunger Strike, 2000-2003," Cultural Studies 18:6 (November 2004).
Work in Progress:	"Violence Performed: Local Roots and Global Routes of Conflict" With Jisha Menon. (Book) "Ana Mendieta, Marina Abramovic, and the Meaning of Self-Consumption" (Article) "So Much Wasted': Hunger, Performance, and the Morbidity of Resistance" (Book) "Color Blind: Seeing Difference, Performing Sightlessness" (Article) "Radical Intimacy: Dwight Conquergood's Classroom" (Article)
Teaching:	Anderson has taught graduate and undergraduate courses at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; the University of California, Berkeley; Los Medanos College; and the American Conservatory Theater's graduate program. His courses have included studio classes in literature and adaptation, acting, movement, and performance art; seminars in women's studies, queer theory, ethnic studies, and cultural studies; and larger classes in "multicultural" performance, American studies, communication/cultural studies, and visual arts. At UCSD, Anderson regularly teaches two new seminars called "Performance and Cultural Studies" and "Domination and Resistance," in addition to standard courses in Communication and Culture and Critical Gender Studies. CGS111 Fall 206