Rate My Professor Stacy Jones

Stacy Holman Jones is Professor of Theatre and Performance in the School of Languages, Literatures, Cultures and Linguistics at Monash University. She earned her PhD in Communication/Performance Studies from the University of Texas at Austin in 2001, MA in Communication from California State University Sacramento in 1996, and BA in Humanities in 1988. Her research examines performance as socially, culturally, and politically resistive and transformative activity, informed by feminist and queer theory, new materialist and affect studies. A leader in arts-based methodologies such as critical autoethnography, her work addresses cultural critique, social inclusion, education, resilience building, social impact design, and health and well-being for minoritarian communities. She has authored, co-authored, or edited 14 books, including Handbook of Autoethnography (2013 and 2021 editions, co-edited with Tony E. Adams and Carolyn Ellis), Autoethnography (2015, co-authored with Tony E. Adams and Carolyn Ellis), Queering Autoethnography (2018, co-authored with Anne M. Harris), The Queer Life of Things: Performance, Affect, and the More-Than-Human (2019, co-authored with Anne M. Harris), and Writing for Performance (2016, co-authored with Anne M. Harris). Jones has published over 100 articles, book chapters, reviews, and editorials, with recent works including "Creative ecologies in borderline personality disorder research" (2025, co-authored with D. X. Harris et al.) and "A creative ecological approach to supporting young people with mental health challenges in schools" (2024, co-authored with D. X. Harris).

Jones serves as founding editor of Departures in Critical Qualitative Research and has contributed to three successful Australian Research Council grants totaling $1,353,604. Her creative practice includes writing, directing, and performing at international venues such as the FEAST Festival in Adelaide, International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry in the United States, and events in Australia, New Zealand, the US, and Scotland. She has received the International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry Special Career Award, National Communication Association Distinguished Service Award in Performance Studies, Janice Hocker Rushing Early Career Research Award, Organization for the Study of Communication, Language, and Gender Feminist Teacher/Mentor Award, and 2024 Good Design Awards for The Tomorrow Party project in Design Research, Policy Design, and Social Impact categories.