Publications
Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles
2022 Gerdes, Ellen, and Yining Lin. “Toward Demarginalization: Navigating Chinese Dance and Movement in the US Higher Education.” Journal of Dance Education. Vol.ahead-of-print, p.1-11.
2020 Burton, O. Cowgill, Vanessa Perez, Ellen Gerdes, Anusha Sadd, Courtnie Ly, Wendelin Slusser, and Angelia Leung. “Get up, Stand Up, Stand up for your Health! Faculty and Student Perspectives on Addressing Prolonged Sitting in University Settings.” Journal of American College Health 69, no. 2 (2020): 198-207.
2017 Gerdes, Ellen. “Persistence in Pedagogy: Teaching Failure, Empathy, and Citation.” Lateral Journal of the Cultural Studies Association 6, no. 2 (Winter 2017).
2015 Gerdes, Ellen and Teresa VanDenend Sorge. “Building Humans and Dances: Exploring Cultural Relevancy as Teaching Artists.” Journal of Dance Education 15, no. 2 (2015): 72-76.
2013 Gerdes, Ellen. “Eclectic Lessons from Taiwan: Hard-Working Dancers at Tsoying High School,” Journal of Emerging Dance Scholarship 1, no. 1 (2013): 1-35.
2010 Gerdes, Ellen. “Shen Wei Dance Arts: Chinese Philosophy in Body Calligraphy.” Dance Chronicle 33, no 2. (2010): 231-250.
2009 Kolcio, Katja and Ellen Gerdes. “Faking it: The Necessary Blind Spots of Understanding,” Cultural Studies: Critical Methodologies 9, no. 2 (2009): 559-569.
2008 Gerdes, Ellen. “Contemporary Yangge: The Moving History of a Chinese Folk-Dance Form,” Asian Theatre Journal 25, no.1, (Spring 2008): 138-147.
Book Chapters
2016 Gerdes, Ellen. “Mediated Meditations: Choreographies of Shen Wei and Kun-Yang Lin.” In Contemporary Directions in Asian American Dance, edited by Yutian Wong, 145-173. Madison, Wisconsin: University of Wisconsin Press, 2016.
Published Book Reviews, Conference Proceedings, and Essays
2017 Gerdes, Ellen. “Toward a Transnational Understanding of Chinese Dance.” Review of Review of Chinese Dance: In the Vast Land and Beyond, by Shih-Ming Li Chang and Lynn E. Frederiksen. Dance Chronicle 40, no. 2 (2017): 217-220.
2017 Gerdes, Ellen. “i-Dance: Tradition, Technology, Memory, and Presence.” dance journal/hk 19, no. 1 (2017).
2015 Gerdes, Ellen, Jenny Yu, and Noah Zaccaglini, “Shanghai Still Life, Urban Humanities: Producing Knowledge on the Megacity.” Urban China Magazine 72 (October 2015), 74.
2013 Gerdes, Ellen. “Dancing Diaspora: Chineseness as a Moving Concept.” Review of Kinesthetic City: Dance and Movement in Chinese Urban Spaces, by SanSan Kwan. Dance Chronicle 36, no. 3 (2013): 386-391.
2013 Bond, Karen and Ellen Gerdes. “Student performance in a Dance-Based Humanities Course at ‘Diversity U.’” World Dance Alliance/Dance and the Child International Conference Proceedings, edited by Susan Stinson and Charlotte Svendler Nielsen, 2013.
2010 Gerdes, Ellen. “Shen Wei Dance Arts: Contemporary Dance and Chinese Identity” SAGAR: A South Asia Graduate Research Journal 19, (2010): 1-10.
2009 Gerdes, Ellen. “The Role of Technique in Dance Education: the Example of Tsoying High School, Taiwan.” Congress on Research in Dance Global Perspectives on Dance Pedagogy: Research and Practice Conference Proceedings, edited by Tresa Randall (2009): 216-227.
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