Associate Professor
mccleakl@jmu.edu
Contact Info
Program Co-Director: JMU in Argentina
Education
Ph.D., University of California at Los Angeles
Fields and specialties
Latin American history, urban culture, film and photography
Teaching areas
Latin American history, world history, urban cultural history
Research interests
Popular culture in Argentina, Latin American theater and film, Latin American and United States cultural relations
Selected publications
“Engendering the Public Sphere:Theater and Society in Buenos Aires Argentina, 1810-1920” Book Manuscript in process
“Playing with Fire: Theaters, Amusement Parks and Nightclubs and the Search for Safety” in Safe and Sound, ZK/U Berlin Germany, October 2017 (in English and German).
“Performance, Nation, and Identity: The Spanish Zarzuela in Argentina, 1890-1900,” Tobias Becker and Kedar Kulkani, editors, Journal of Nineteenth Century Theater and Film, November 2017. This is a special volume on traveling theater and adaptation.
"Papás, malevos, and patotas: 'Character'izing Masculinity on the Stages and in the Audiences of Buenos Aires, 1880-1920" in Carolina Rocha, editor, Muy Machos: Modern Argentine Masculinities (London: Intellect Books), 2013.
"Inflaming the Fears of Theater Goers: How Fires Shaped the Public Sphere in Buenos Aires, 1880-1910," in Greg Bankoff et al., Flammable Cities: Urban Conflagration and the Making of the Modern World. University of Wisconsin Press, 2012.
"Ethnic Identity and Elite Idyll: A Comparison of Carnival Celebrations in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and Montevideo, Uruguay, 1880-1910," Social Identities: Journal for the Study of Race, Nation and Culture, Vol 16 No. 4, 2010, pp. 497-517. (These essays were republished in Carnival Art, Culture and Politics: Performing Life, Michaeline Crichlow, editor, London: Routledge Press, 2012).
"Mass, Popular, and Elite Culture? The Spanish Zarzuela in Buenos Aires, 1890-1900," Studies in Latin American Popular Culture, vol. 21, 2002, pp. 1-27.
