Juliet McMains
Juliet E. McMains is a United States dance scholar and instructor,[1] the author of the Glamour Addiction, the first comprehensive study of the United States DanceSport.[2][3]
Juliet McMains started doing ballroom dancing as a teenager. Eventually she became professional ballroom dancer until she stopped competing in 2003.[1] Her Senior thesis in the college was Tradition and Transgression: Gender Roles in Ballroom Dancing. She earned B.A. in Women's Studies from Harvard University and PhD in dance history and theory (2003) at the University of California, Riverside.[4]
As of 2006, she is a teacher of World Dance History, Beginning Salsa and Beginning Tango at the University of Washington, Seattle. Her academic specializations include dance ethnography, social dance history, post-structural theory, cultural studies, and feminist theory.[1][4]
Scholar works
- 2006: Juliet E. McMains, "Glamour Addiction: Inside the American Ballroom Dance Industry" Wesleyan University Press, ISBN 0-8195-6774-4
- 2002: Juliet McMains and Danielle Robinson. "Swinging Out: Southern California's Lindy Revival." in: I See America Dancing: Selected Readings, 1685-2000, Ed. Maureen Needham. University of Illinois Press
References
- 1 2 3 "Dance fever: Recovery can be hard", by Nancy Wick, University Week (University of Washington), November 30, 2006
- ↑ "Permission to Follow: Interview with Juliet McMains", 15 February 2007
- ↑ A review of Glamour Addiction in the Dance Research Journal, Volume 40, Number 1, Summer 2008 doi:10.1353/drj.0.0012
- 1 2 Juliet McMains biography