Evan Mitchell Schares

Research

My research is interdisciplinary and cuts across performance studies, stage praxis, critical rhetoric, and cultural studies. Broadly, my published work takes the form of cultural criticism, archival inquiry, and the development of performance theory within experimental black box theater.

My work can be read in Text and Performance Quarterly, International Journal of Performance Arts & Digital Media, Liminalities: A Journal of Performance Studies, Cultural Studies <-> Critical Methodologies, Departures in Critical Qualitative Research, QED: A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking, and Journal of International and Intercultural Communication.

  1. Schares, E. M. (2025). Chaotic self-portraiture and precarious free improvisational performance in Toshi Makihara’s Becoming the Sound. International Journal of Performance Arts & Digital Media.
  2. Schares, E. M. (2025). Amnesic performance: Performing Kinau’s archival isolation on the far side of the Moon. Text and Performance Quarterly, 45(3), 231-243.
  3. Schares, E. M. (2024). Mop water performance: Staging queerness, cheapness, and dirty stories in Gloryfire. Departures in Critical Qualitative Research, 13(3).
  4. Schares, E. M. (2024). Staging and Intertextualizing Franz Kafka’s “In the Penal Colony.” Text and Performance Quarterly, 44(3).
  5. Schares, E. M. (2023). Storying the repertoire: Performing a slow and queer backwardness at the Upstairs Lounge. Cultural Studies <-> Critical Methodologies, 23(3).
  6. Schares, E. M. & J. K. Stanisci (2022). Family letter writing as embodied performance praxis. Liminalities: A Journal of Performance Studies, 18(4).
  7. Schares, E. M. (2022). PWLies: Presence and justice ensemble performance in times of crisis. Liminalities: A Journal of Performance Studies, 18(2).
  8. Schares, E. M. (2021). Networked grief, queer flesh, and erotic racism on Instagram’s @theaidsmemorial. QED: A Joutnal in GLBTQ Worldmaking, 8(2).
  9. Schares, E. M. (2021). U.S. homonationalist battle portraiture and queer armed archival artifacts. Journal of International and Intercultural Communication, 14(4).
  10. Schares, E. M. (2020). Witnessing the archive: Stormé Delarverie and queer performance historicity. Text and Performance Quarterly, 40(3).
  11. Schares, E. M. (2019). The suicide of Leelah Alcorn: Whiteness in the cultural wake of dying queers. QED: A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking, 6(1).