Susan Tenneriello

Education

Ph.D., Theatre, CUNY Graduate Center

MPhil, Theatre, CUNY Graduate Center

M.A., Theatre, Hunter College, CUNY

B.A., Classics, Hunter College, CUNY

Artistic and Creative Activities

Tenneriello, S. (2013). Exodus Code: Advice for Wanderers. The Flea Theater.

Tenneriello, S. (2011). Fire Escape.

Tenneriello, S. (2011). Fire Escape. Tenement Museum.

Tenneriello, S. (2011). Exodus Code. Tenement Museum.

Tenneriello, S. (2009). Mirage. Writer/Director Lab.

Tenneriello, S. (2008). Chunk O' My Heart, with original music by Kevin Cummines, in No Song, No Supper, A Variety Entertainment,. Tribeca Performing Arts Center.

Tenneriello, S. (2008). Banana and Booh In Security. New York University Casa Italiana.

Tenneriello, S. (2007). Tick Tock. Rehab.

Tenneriello, S. (2007). Banana and Booh in Security. Tribeca Performing Arts Center.

Tenneriello, S. (2004). They Charge Extra for That.

Tenneriello, S. (2000). The Pink Canal. 42nd. Street Workshop.

Tenneriello, S. (1998). Oh, Miss.

Tenneriello, S. (1991). Each to Each. Hunter College.

Books

Tenneriello, S. (2013). Spectacle Culture and American Identity: 1815-1940. (p. 316). US, Palgrave Macmillan.

Journal Articles

Tenneriello, S. (2023). "Mario Fratti, In Memoriam". PSA, 35. 18-20.

Tenneriello, S. (2019). Staging Sochi 2014: the Soft Power of Geocultural Politics in the Olympic Opening Ceremony. Theatre Research International, 44(1). 23-39.

Tenneriello, S. (2015). Behind the Scenes: Art Work and the Laboring Body in the Dance Images of Degas. Dance Chronicle, 38(1). 27-54.

Tenneriello, S. (2009). Pirandellian Specters in Contemporary Practice: Six Characters in Search of an Author, Interactive Media and Performance. PSA, The Journal Of the Pirandello Soceity of America, XXII. 31-40.

Tenneriello, S. (2008). The Divine Spaces of Metaphysical Spectacle: Ruth St. Denis and Denishawn Dance Theatre at Lewisohn Stadium, The Esoteric Model in American Performance. Performance Research: Special Issue, Congregation, 13(1). 124-138.

Tenneriello, S. (2007). The Industry of Spectacle Entertainment: Imre Kiralfy's Grand Dramatic Historical Productions of The Fall of Babylon and Nero, or the Destruction of Rome in Staten Island. Journal of American Drama and Theatre, 19(3). 35-49.

Tenneriello, S. (1998). Interview with Kazimierz Braun. Slavic and East European Performance, 18(1). 60-69.

Book Chapters

Tenneriello, S. (2025). The Immersive Archive: Restoring the All-Embracing View of Nineteenth-Century Painted Panoramas in Museum Display. In Hunter, E., & Magelssen, S. (Eds.), Enveloping Worlds: Towards a Discourse of Immersivity University of Michigan Press.

(2024). The World on Display from the Comfort of Home: Covid Olympics and Staging National Identity. Staging Visitation Univeristy of Michigan Press.

Tenneriello, S. (2021). Degas's Images of Working Women: Modernity in Motion. In Pedosa, A., & Oliva, F. (Eds.), Deags: Dance, Politics and Society São Paulo,Brazil. Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand.

Tenneriello, S. (2020). Sport and Spectacle in Olympic History: Moving the Body Politic at the 1912 Stockholm Games. In Walsh, S. (Ed.), Sporting Performances: Politics in Play London,UK. Routledge.

Tenneriello, S. (2018). Panoramas. In Hayes, K. J. (Ed.), Herman Melville in Context (pp. 157-166). Cambridge. Cambridge University Press.

Tenneriello, S. (2018). Dancing On The Nature of Things at the American Museum of Natural History: Choreographing Climate Change and Personal Spectatorship. In Mouton-Rezzouk, A., Urrutiaguer, D., & Chevalier, P. (Eds.), Le musée par la scène/ Through the scene to the museum Paris,France. Èditions Deuxième Èpoque.

Presentations

Tenneriello, S. (2025, August 2). "Ephemeral Ecosystems in Mythmaking: Representing Moby Dick's Phantom Habitat". International Federation for Theatre Research. Ghana, Africa: IFTR.

Tenneriello, S. (2025, November 2). Marketing Hope: The Scenic Iconography of Emotion in the Olympic Movement's Cultural Campaign. American Society for Theatre Research. Providence, Rhode Island: ASTR.

Tenneriello, S. (2025, November 2). Drones, Pictograms, LED Screens, and Protests: The Games Must Go On, Negotiating Catastrophe in the 2021 Tokyo and 2022 Beijing Olympic Ceremonies. American Society for Theatre Research. New Orleans

Tenneriello, S. (2025, November 2). The Immersive Archive of Popular Entertainment: Nineteenth-Century Painted Panoramas in Museum Display. American Society for Theatre Research. San Diego, California: American Society for Theatre Research.

Tenneriello, S. (2020, November 30). The Immersive Archive of Popular Entertainment: Nineteenth-Century Painted Panoramas in Museum Display. American Society for Theatre Research.

Tenneriello, S. (2020, July 31). Rebuilding the Olympics: Post-World War II Recovery and Cultural Branding from London to Tokyo, 1948-1964. International Federation for Theatre Research. Galway, Ireland: Historiography Working Group.

Tenneriello, S. (2020, February 28). The Brother hood of the New Blockheads. Gallery Talk. Baruch College: Sidney Mishkin Gallery.

Tenneriello, S. (2019, April 30). The Immersive Archive: Restoring a 360-View of Painted Panoramas in Museum Display. International Federation for Theatre Research. Berlin, Gemrany: Interim Conference Historiography Working Group.

Tenneriello, S. (2019, July 31). Designing the Land of Tomorrow at Mexico City, 1968: Spaces of Protest, Violence, and Invention When the Olympics Come to Town. International Federation for Theatre Research. Shanghai, China

Tenneriello, S. (2025, November 2). Award Presentation: American Society for Theatre Research Sally Banes Publication Prize. American Society for Theatre Research. Arlington, Virginia

Tenneriello, S. (2025, November 2). Award Presentation: American Society for Theatre Research Selma Jean Cohen Conference Presentation Award. American Society for Theatre Research. Arlington, Virginia

Tenneriello, S. (2025, July 2). Diffusion of Theatre. International Federation for Theatre Research Conference. Shanghai, China

Tenneriello, S. (2018, July 31). Sport and Spectacle in Olympic History: Moving the Body Politic at the 1912 Stockholm Games. International Federation for Theatre Reseach. Belgrade, Serbia

Tenneriello, S. (2018, November 30). Competing Desires at the 1968 Mexico City Summer Olympics: When Sport Culture and Civil Rights Collide. American Society for Theatre Research. San Diego, California

Tenneriello, S. (2017, September 30). Respondent: Metatheatre and Modernity. Global Legacies: Pirandello Across Centuries and Media. New York: Pirandello Society of America.

Tenneriello, S. (2017, November 30). Extraordinary Athletic Displays in Olympic Spectacles: Mass Gymnastics, Pictorial Formations, and Shadow Images of Sport in the Opening Ceremony. American Society for Theatre Research. Atlanta, Georgia

Tenneriello, S. (2017, May 11). Publishing Panel. Approaching Dance: Transdisciplinary Methodologies and Modalities of the Moving Body in Performance. CUNY Graduate Centure: PhD Program in Theatre.

Tenneriello, S. (2016, June 30). “The Future of the Past,”. International Federation for Theatre Research. Stockholm, Sweden: Historiography Working Group.

Tenneriello, S. (2016, November 30). Olympic Spectacles: Historical Views on a Twentieth-Century Transmedia Tradition. American Society for Theatre Research. Minneapolis, Minnesota

Tenneriello, S. (2016, June 30). Winning Hearts and Minds: Visions of Political Transformation at the 1988 Seoul Summer Olympics Opening Ceremony. International Federation for Theatre Research. Stockholm, Sweden

Tenneriello, S. (2015, March 31). Visionary Space/Memorial Sites. Panel Chair. Kansas City: Mid-America Theatre Conference.

Tenneriello, S. (2015, March 31). Alternate Routes to Staging Sochi 2014: The Creative Industry around Olympic Spectacles. Mid-America Theatre Conference. Kansas City, Missouri: Mid-America Theatre Conference.

Tenneriello, S. (2015, July 31). Invented Traditions in Early Twentieth-Century Olympic Culture: Athens to Berlin. International Federation for Theatre Research. Hyderabad, India

Tenneriello, S. (2015, November 30). Dancing On The Nature of Things at the American Museum of Natural History: Choreographing Climate Change and Personal Spectatorship. SIBMAS, International Association of Libraries, Museums, Archives and Documentation Centres of the Performing Arts. Paris, France

Tenneriello, S. (2015, November 30). The Neo-Baroque Stages of Twenty-First-Century Olympic Opening Ceremonies: Transformations in Global Performance. American Society for Theatre Research. Portland, Oregon

Tenneriello, S. (2014, July 31). Razzle-Dazzle Progress Trails: The Global Spectacles of Twenty-First-Century Olympic Ceremonies. International Federation for Theatre Research. Warwick Univeristy, UK

Tenneriello, S. (2014, March 31). How Interactive Video Tools Impact Student Speech and Performance. Can Anyone Hear Me?. New York: CUNY League of Active Speech Professors.

Tenneriello, S., & Wollman, E. (2012, March 31). 'Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark' and the Ambivalence of Spectacle. EMP Pop Conference. New York City: EMP and International Association for the Study of Popular Music.

Tenneriello, S. (2011, November 30). Location, Location, Location: Institutional Agency and Global Strategies in U.S. Site Specific Exhibitions (1876-1916). American Society for Theatre Research. Montreal Quebec-Canada: ASTR/TLA.

Tenneriello, S. (2010, July 31). Spectacles of the Progressive Citizen at London's Great White City, 1908-1914. International Federation for Theatre Research. Munich, Germany

Tenneriello, S. (2010, August 31). Global Vision: Precedents and Prototypes in Twenty-First Century Spectaclism. Association for Theatre in Higher Education. Los Angeles, California: American Theatre and Drama Society.

Tenneriello, S. (2009, April 30). A Bird's Eye View of Nature, Art, and Industry in the 1876 American Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia. Popular Amusements and Entertainment. Exeter, UK: University of Exeter.

Tenneriello, S. (2009, November 30). Manifest Destinations: Immersive Stages of Preservation, Commerce, and Museum Display in Dioramic Scenes of U.S. History. American Society for Theatre Research. Puerto Rico: ASTR/TLA.

Tenneriello, S. (2008, March 31). Degas and the Dance. Art History Series. New York City: Art Student League of New York.

Tenneriello, S. (2008, May 31). Replications: Performing and Re-Staging America at Home and Abroad. Seminar Co-Convener. New York City: Cultural Studies Association.

Tenneriello, S. (2008, August 31). Speaking to Write: Using Oral Composing Practices to Enhance Student Writing. Association for Theatre in Higher Education. Denver, Colorado: Theatre in Liberal Arts.

Tenneriello, S. (2008, November 30). Unsettled Possibilities: Mapping the Space of the Panoramic. Seminar Co-Convener. Boston, Massachusetts: American Soceity for Theatre Research.

Tenneriello, S. (2008, December 31). Pirandellian Specters in Contemporary Practice: Interactive Media and Performance. Modern Language Association. San Francisco, California: Pirandello Society of America.

Tenneriello, S. (2007, November 30). Scenic Wonders: Nineteenth-Century Panoramic Landscapes and the Perceptional Order of Imaginary America. American Society for Theatre Research. Phoenix, Arizona: ASTR/TLA.

Tenneriello, S. (2007, July 31). America-in-Play: a Panel and Workshop About Reclaiming Our Dramatic/Theatrical Legacy to Invigorate Contemporary Playwriting. Association for Theatre In Higher Education. New Orleans, Louisiana: Literary Managers and Dramaturgs.

Tenneriello, S. (2006, August 31). Working the Link in a Learning Communities Program: Transforming Pedagogical Practices Within and Across Disciplines. Association for Theatre in Higher Education. Chicago, Illinois: Theatre In Liberal Arts.

Tenneriello, S. (2006, November 30). The Aesthetic Body: A Pedagogy of Felt Perception. American Society for Theatre Research. Chicago, Illinois: ASTR/TLA.

Tenneriello, S. (2006, November 30). Edwin Forrest and the Dramaturgy of the American Action Hero. Edwin Forrest's New York: A Bicentennial Conference. New York: College of Mount St. Vincent.

Tenneriello, S. (2006, August 31). Biblical Zeal and Spectacle Appeal: Christian Conquest in Imre Kiralfy's Nero, or the Destruction of Rome and Other Colonizing Histories. Association for Theatre in Higher Education. Chicago, Illinois: ATHE.

Tenneriello, S. (2005, June 30). Allegory, Parody, and a Taste for the Undesirable in Jean-Philippe Rameau's Platée: Poor 'Thing,' Why Aren't You Laughing?. Society of Dance History Scholars. Evanston, Illinois

Tenneriello, S. (2004, November 30). Disabling Notions: Beyond Bodies of Difference. American Society for Theatre Research. Las Vegas, Nevada

Tenneriello, S. (2004, June 30). Behind the Scenes, the Work of Art and the Laboring Body: Degas and the Dance. Society of Dance History Scholars. Durham, North Carolina

Tenneriello, S. (2003, April 30). Exotic Spectacle, American Style: The Mass Appeal of Denishawn's Angkor Vat. Popular Culture Association and American Culture Association. New Orleans, Louisiana: Dance Panels.

Tenneriello, S. (2001, March 31). An American in Egypt: The Cultures of Style in Ruth St. Denis's Egypta. Mid-America Theatre Conference. Chicago, Illinois: MATC.

Tenneriello, S. (2001, June 30). Repeating Dance, Repeating History, Repeating Ruth St. Denis: Making a Legacy Stick. Society of Dance History Scholars. Baltimore, Maryland

Tenneriello, S. (2000, July 31). Hanako and Rodin: The Presence of the Asian Model in Modernity. Society of Dance History Scholars. Washington, DC

Tenneriello, S. (2000, August 31). Strategic Bodies. Association for Theatre in Higher Education. Washington, DC

Tenneriello, S. (1999, June 30). O-Mika: Ruth St. Denis's Image of the East. Society of Dance History Scholars. Albuquerque, New Mexico

Tenneriello, S. (1997, October 31). Representations of Class and Gender in George Lillo's The London Merchant: The Aesthetics of Social Life. Northwest Society for Eighteenth Century Studies. Eugene, Oregon

Other Scholarly Works

Reviews

Tenneriello, S. (2020,December 1). Performing Statelessness in Europe. Johns Hopkins University Press: Theatre Journal.

Tenneriello, S. (2016,May 1). Dance and Modernity. PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art.

Tenneriello, S. (2014,September 1). A Long Embrace: Dance, Art, History. PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art.

Tenneriello, S. (2013,January 1). Demon of Experiment. PAJ: A Journal of Performance Art.

Tenneriello, S. (2012,January 1). Dancing Pirandello: David Gordon's Beginning Of The End Of The . . .. PSA, The Journal Of the Pirandello Soceity of America.

Tenneriello, S. (2007,January 1). Two at Theater Studio: Pirandello's The Man with a Flower in His Mouth and Luca Rosetti's He Who Laughs Last Laughs Best. PSA .

Tenneriello, S. (2006,October 1). The Visible Theatre's Krankenhaus Blues at Blue Heron Arts Center. Theatre Journal.

Tenneriello, S. (2003,October 1). The Work of Dance: Labor, Movement, and Identity in the 1930s. Theatre Journal.

Tenneriello, S. (2002,December 1). Revealing Masks: Exotic Influences and Ritualized Performance in Modernist Music Theater. Theatre Journal.

Tenneriello, S. (2001,April 1). Kei Takei's The Absence of Izanagi at La MaMa. Woman & Performance: A Journal of Feminist Theory.

Tenneriello, S. (2000,July 1). The Visual Poetry of Marina Temkina: Engagement Time at the Florence Lynch Gallery, New York, 18 February to 8 April 2000. Slavic and East European Performance.

Tenneriello, S. (1999,April 1). The Metamorphosis of Apuleius by Gardzienice. Slavic and East European Performance.

Tenneriello, S. (1998,October 1). U.B.U./I'll be Me: Form Bydgoszcz to the Bronx. Slavic and East European Performance.

Tenneriello, S. (1998,July 1). A Performance Demonstration of Meyerhold's Revizor at Yale. Slavic and East European Performance.

Tenneriello, S. (1998,April 1). Bruno Jasienski's The Dummies' Ball at the State University of New York, Buffalo. Slavic and East European Performance.

Tenneriello, S. (1997,April 1). A Festival of Polish Theatre at La Mama: Kazimierz Braun's Helena-The Emigrant Queen. Slavic and East European Performance.

Tenneriello, S. (1997,July 1). The US Premiere of Radovan Ivsic's Kralj Gordogan Presented by The Rorsach Group. Slavic and East European Performance.

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