Featured Publications

Performance, Theatricality and the US Presidency: The Currency of Distrust

Sole-authored monograph, published by Edinburgh University Press. 2023.

‘On Protest'

Double issue of Performance Research, co-edited with Andy Lavender. 2023.

All Publications

Books

Peetz, Julia (forthcoming 2023). Performance, Theatricality, and the US Presidency: The Currency of Distrust.Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP. https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-performance-theatricality-and-the-us-presidency.html

Book chapters

Peetz, Julia (2021). 'The Performative Edge of Non-Politicians: Populism and Shifting Legitimacy in US Presidential Politics.' Bodies That Still Matter. Resonances of the Work of Judith Butler, edited by Annemie Halsema, Katja Kwastek, and Roel van den Oever, 53–63. Amsterdam: Amsterdam UP. https://www.aup.nl/en/book/9789463722940/bodies-that-still-matter

Peetz, Julia (2021). 'The Body Politic and JFK's Bad Back: Questions of Embodiment in the Performance of Politics.' Oxford Handbook of Politics and Performance, edited by Shirin M. Rai, Milija Gluhovic, Silvija Jestrovic, and Michael Saward, 561–576. Oxford: Oxford UP. https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-oxford-handbook-of-politics-and-performance-9780190863456Link opens in a new window

Peetz, Julia, and Alexander Roycroft (2018). 'Raising Her Voice: Maiden Speeches and Representative Power.' In: Amending Speech: Women's Voices in Parliament, 1918-2018, edited by Maggie Inchley and John Vice, 282–87. London: House of Lords Hansard.

Journal articles

Lavender, Andy, and Julia Peetz (2023). 'On Protest Editorial'. Performance Research 27 (3/4): 1–12. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13528165.2022.2155388 (open access)

Peetz, Julia (2021). 'The Counter-Theatricality of Right-Wing Populist Performance.' Studies in Theatre and Performance 41 (3): 247-262. Special issue 'Performance and the Right'. https://doi.org/10.1080/14682761.2021.1964818 (open access)

Peetz, Julia (2020). 'Legitimacy as a Zero-Sum Game: Presidential Populism and the Performative Success of the Unauthorized Outsider.' Contemporary Political Theory 19 (4): 642–662. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41296-019-00375-3

Peetz, Julia (2019). 'Theatricality as an Interdisciplinary Problem.' Performance Research 24 (4): 63–67. https://doi.org/10.1080/13528165.2019.1641325

Peetz, Julia (2019). 'Beyond the Antitheatrical Prejudice: Political Oratory and the Performance of Legitimacy.' Contemporary Theatre Review 29 (1): 5–22. https://doi.org/10.1080/10486801.2018.1556210

Peetz, Julia (2016). 'Obama's Tears: Politics, Performance, and the Crisis of Belief.' Platform: Journal of Theatre and Performing Arts 10 (2): 10–31. https://www.royalholloway.ac.uk/media/5425/04_obamas_tears_peetz.pdf

Journal editions

Lavender, Andy, and Julia Peetz, eds. (2023). Performance Research 27 (3/4 double issue): On Protest. https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rprs20/27/3-4

Moravec, Lisa, and Julia Peetz, eds. (2018). Platform: Journal of Theatre and Performing Arts 12 (2): On Magic. https://www.royalholloway.ac.uk/media/8418/00_full_issue.pdf

Peetz, Julia, and Raz Weiner, eds. (2018). Platform: Journal of Theatre and Performing Arts 12 (1): Feasting. https://www.royalholloway.ac.uk/media/5753/00_full_issue.pdf

Peetz, Julia, and Raz Weiner, eds. (2017). Platform: Journal of Theatre and Performing Arts 11: 'Authenticity'. https://www.royalholloway.ac.uk/media/5437/00_full.pdf

Other

Peetz, Julia (2018). 'Semi-Structured Elite Interviews with U.S. Presidential Speechwriters in Interdisciplinary Research on Politics and Performance.' SAGE Research Methods Cases. https://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781526477569

Reviews

Peetz, Julia (2023). Review of Political Dramaturgies and Theatre Spectatorship: Provocations for Change by Liz Tomlin. Journal of Contemporary Drama in English. https://doi.org/10.1515/jcde-2023-0017

Peetz, Julia (2022). Review of Populist Communication: Ideology, Performance, Mediation by Lone Sorensen. Representation: Journal of Representative Democracy. https://doi.org/10.1080/00344893.2022.2068646

Peetz, Julia (2020). Review of Speechwriting in the Institutionalized Presidency: Whose Line Is It? by Kenneth Collier. Presidential Studies Quarterly 50 (2): 484–485. https://doi.org/10.1111/psq.12652

Peetz, Julia (2017). Review of The Global Rise of Populism: Performance, Political Style, and Representation by Benjamin Moffitt. European Journal of Communication 32 (5): 494–496. https://doi.org/10.1177%2F0267323117730716

In the media

'Why Performance Enables, and Disturbs, Democratic Politics.' The Activist Classroom, 12 December 2019.

‘In politics, speeches matter—but even Donald Trump couldn't make the State of the Union watchable.’ The Conversation, 1 February 2018.