Books
- Emoghene, Sinclair Ogaga and Kathleen A. Spanos. (2023). Dancing in the World: Revealing Cultural Confluences. Routledge Press.
Peer-reviewed articles
- Spanos, Kathleen A. (2021). O Corpo é Tudo: Theory, Practice and Resistance in the Body. Incomum Revista, 2 (1).
- Spanos, Kathleen A., & Bezerra, A. A. (2020). Dancing between Pedagogy and Performance: Guerreiros do Passo and the Case of Brazilian Frevo. Dance Chronicle, 43(1), 3–31.
- Spanos, Kathleen A. (2019). A Dance of Resistance from Recife, Brazil: Carnivalesque Improvisation in Frevo. Dance Research Journal, 51(3), 28–46.
- Spanos, Kathleen A. (2019). Locating Montserrat Between the Black and Green. Irish Migration Studies in Latin America, 9(2), 1–14.
- Spanos, Kathleen A. (2017). Dancing the Archive: Rhythms of Change in Montserrat’s Masquerades. Yearbook for Traditional Music, 49, 67–91.
- van den Berg, Martin, Spanos, Kathleen A., & Kubovy, Michael. (2005). The effect of synaesthetically induced colors on perceptual organization [Abstract]. Journal of Vision, 5(8):347, 347a.
Book chapters
- Spanos, Kathleen A. (2021). Dances of Resistance and Social Inclusion in Brazil: Frevo and Popular Dances of Pernambuco. In Handbook of Social Inclusion, edited by Pranee Liamputtong, 1–23. Cham: Springer International Publishing.
Commissioned essays
- Spanos, Kate. (2022). “Irish Dance on Repeat: Archiving the Dance and Dancing the Archive.” Essay commissioned for Our Steps, Our Story: An Irish Dance Legacy Archive, created and produced by Jean Butler in partnership with the Jerome Robbins Dance Division of the New York Public Library.
- Spanos, Kate. (2020). “Frevo: A Reflection on Dances of Resistance during Times of Protest.” Smithsonian Folklife Festival. https://festival.si.edu/blog/frevo-dances-of-resistance-protest.
Conference proceedings
- Spanos, Kathleen A. (2012). Weaving Music and Braiding Tradition: Irish Step Dance in Ireland and the North American Diaspora. In E. I. Dunin & C. E. Foley (Eds.), Proceedings of the 27th Symposium of the International Council for Traditional Music Study Group on Ethnochoreology.
Book reviews
- Spanos, Kathleen A. (2022). Review: Trad Nation: Gender, Sexuality, and Race in Irish Traditional Music. Ethnomusicology Ireland, no. 8: 100–101.
- Spanos, Kathleen A. (2014). Kinesthetic Empathy in Creative and Cultural Practices (review). Theatre Survey, 55(2), 264–266.
- Spanos, Kathleen A. (2011). Planes of Composition: Dance, Theory, and the Global (review). Theatre Journal, 63(3), 482–483.