Shelby McKelvey-Petro, PhD

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Truvy the whippet approaches catching a ball while her sister ignores her

Truvy catches the ball!

Truvy looks very snoopy like as she runs toward a ball still far above her

Truvy waits for the ball to fall closer to her snoot

Playtime With Truvy in Four Acts

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Over the moon to share that Disability Works received the National Communication Association’s Lilla A. Heston Award for Outstanding Scholarship in Interpretation and Performance Studies!

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It would seem that I missed an email and Disability Works ALSO won the Book of the Year Award for the National Communication Association’s GLBTQ Communication Studies Division!!!!

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'Broderick Chow, Muscle Works: Physical Culture and the Performance of Masculinity. (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2024. Lianna Mark, Theatres of Autofiction. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024). Patrick McKelvey, Disability Works: Performance After Rehabilitation. (NY: New York University Press, 2024). Brahma Prakash, Body on the Barricades: Life, Art and Resistance in Contemporary India. (Delhi: LeftWord, 2023). Ben Spatz, Race and the Forms of Knowledge: Technique, Identity, and Place in Artistic Research. (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2024).' .

Happy to share that "Disability Works" has been shortlisted for the Theatre and Performance Research Association's David Bradby Monograph Prize. Congrats to this stellar group of finalists!

Review #4 of Disability Works is out in Review: The Journal of Dramaturgy!

"a thoughtful, nuanced, and deeply archival analysis of the intersecting histories of labor, theatre, and disability...Every scholar concerned with even loosely connected topics should have a copy on their bookshelf."

Disability Works Winner, 2025 C.L.R. James Award, awarded by the Working-Class Studies AssociationShortlisted, 2025 Outstanding Book Award, given by the Association for Theat...

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John W. Frick Book Award Finalists Broderick Chow, Muscle Works: Physical Culture and the Performance of Masculinity (Northwestern University Press) Lindsay Goss, F*ck the Army: How Soldiers and Civilians Staged the GI Movement to End the Vietnam War (NYU Press) Kellen Hoxworth, Transoceanic Blackface: Empire, Race, Performance (Northwestern University Press) Bethany Hughes, Redface: Race, Performance, and Indigeneity (NYU Press) Patrick McKelvey, Disability Works: Performance After Rehabilitation (NYU Press) Jon Rossini, Pragmatic Liberation and the Politics of Puerto Rican Diasporic Drama (University of Michigan Press)

Now I get to share that Disability Works is a finalist for the American Theatre and Drama Society John W. Frick Book Award--and in some pretty stellar company!

“Disability Works” turns 1 today! I’d like to celebrate by making sure it finds its way into the hands of even more readers. You can help by:

1) Requesting your library purchase a copy (link in bio)

2) Let me know if you assign it (I can zoom in!)

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Quick announcement -- super thrilled to join NYU Press as a series editor for the North American Religions book series!

I'm honored and humbled to join this series that Laura, Tracy, and David founded and have made so strong, publishing amazing books by *so many* scholars I admire.

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