Leaning: A Poetics of Personal Relationships (Writing Lives) - Softcover

Ronald J. Pelias is Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Speech Communications at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale. He is the author of numerous books on performance studies and performance methodologies, including most recently Performance Studies: The Interpretation of Aesthetic Texts (St. Martin's Press, 1992), Writing Performance: Poeticizing the Researcher's Body (Southern Illinois University Press, 1999), and A Methodology of the Heart: Evoking Academic and Daily Life (AltaMira, 2004). In 2000, he received the Lilla A. Heston Award for Outstanding Scholarship in Interpretation and Performance Studies and the Distinguished Service Award, both from the National Communication Association.