2018 Alumni

Rachel Greenblatt

Functions of Space and Performance; Immersive Theater; Performative Functions of Nightlife and Variety Theater; Circus Arts; Brechtian Theory; Performance as a Mechanism and Catalyst for Social Change

Annie Seminara

Performance and public transport; theories of movement; labor and performance; Marxism and performance

Jeremy Swanton

PERFORMANCE OF EVERYDAY LIFE; QUEER PERFORMANCE; GENDER PERFORMANCE; THEATRE STUDIES; SOCIAL STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; LINGUISTICS

Bolatito Aderemi-Ibitola

PERFORMANCE STUDIES; ACTIVISM THEATRE; VIDEO AND PERFORMANCE ART

CLYMENE BAUGHER

DANCE; PSYCHOANALYSIS; PHILOSOPHY; FEMINISM

BIANCA FELIX BIBERAJ

TIME-BASED ART; EXPERIMENTAL ETHNOGRAPHY; MOVEMENT STUDIES; MULTI-RACIAL IDENTITY THEORY

ARIANA DIVALENTINO

ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE AND ECOFEMINISM; TRANSCORPOREALITY; TRAUMA; GENDER AND QUEER STUDIES

IVAN ESPINOSA

ECO-CENTRIC THEATER; ECOPOETICS; PERFORMANCE THEORY; EXPERIMENTAL THEATER & PERFORMANCE ART

ARTI GOLLAPUDI

Performance Studies

LANE LEWIS

TRANS STUDIES; TRANSNATIONAL FEMINISM; POETRY; PERFORMATIVE WRITING; TRANSFORMATIVE JUSTICE; HAUNTOLOGY

ZIHAN LOO

QUEER ARCHIVES; RE-ENACTMENTS; PERFORMANCE PEDAGOGY

KEIRA MAYO

ARTS-BASED METHODOLOGIES; IMPROVISED THEATRE AND GAMES; LANGUAGE, IDENTITY, AND STEREOTYPES; FEMINIST THEORY

MERSIHA MESIHOVIC

EMBODIMENT; DANCE; PERFORMANCE; INTERDISCIPLINARITY; RACE; ETHNICITY; NEOCOLONIOLISM (CONCENTRATION IN THE REGION OF FORMER YUGOSLAVIA); CRITICAL THEORY

MINH-TRUNG NGUYEN

DECENTRALIZATION OF WESTERN GLOBAL SENSE-MAKING; PERFORMANCES OF CINEMATIC TEMPORALITY; SEXUALITY AND OTHER PERFORMANCES OF SELF-DISCLOSURE ON SOCIAL NETWORKS

SAMMY ROTH

CRITICAL RACE THEORY/WHITENESS STUDIES; DANCE/MOVEMENT STUDIES; (ORDINARY) AFFECT THEORY

SAGE RUSSO

QUEER & FEMINIST STUDIES; CRITICAL THEORY; TRAUMA/AFFECT/MEMORY STUDIES; SEXUAL STUDIES; PUBLIC DISRUPTION & RUPTURAL PERFORMANCE

JUSTIN RUSTLE

DANCE HISTORY, CHOREOGRAPHY, AND CRITICISM; THE POWER OF STORYTELLING; THE IMPACT OF SOCIAL MODELS OF ARTS FUNDING

JEANANN SEIDMAN

SOUND STUDIES; PERFORMANCE INSTALLATION; TECHNOLOGY AND PERFORMANCE; PERFORMANCE INTERACTIVITY; COMMUNICATION IN COLLABORATIVE PERFORMANCE; IMPROVISATION; MINIMALISM

MEGAN SHINDLER

PERFORMANCE STUDIES; ETHNOGRAPHY; PERFORMANCE ART; PROTEST ART

LAURA SMITH

THE BODY; FEMALE BODIES ONSTAGE; ENERGY/AFFECT CULTIVATION AND THEATER ARCHITECTURE; THE CHOREOGRAPHED AUDIENCE AND ETIQUETTE

KEVIN STORY

Theatre, Musical Theatre

ISAAC VANCUREN

DIGITAL ART; SOCIAL MEDIA; GENDER NORMS; SOCIAL CONSTRUCTS

SAMYUKTHA VISWANATHAN

PERFORMANCE POETRY; THEATER AND MOVEMENT ART; PERFORMANCE AND IDENTITIES IN SOCIAL MEDIA AND THE DIGITAL WORLD

MATT WILSON

BIOPOLITICAL PERFORMANCE; SIDESHOW, MEDICINE, TECHNOLOGY AND THE BODY; ABJECTION, COLLECTIVE JOY AND THE POLITICS OF PLAY; ARCHITECTURES OF PARTICIPATION AND SPACES OF KNOWLEDGE ACCRETION; EVIL CLOWNS

Masi Asare

THEORIES OF THE SINGING BODY; POPULAR MUSIC STUDIES; VOICE AND EMBODIMENT IN MUSICAL THEATRE AND FILM; BLACK PERFORMANCE; CRITICAL RACE THEORY; GLOBAL PERFORMANCE OF POPULAR MUSIC AND MUSICALS

Ethan Philbrick

RACE, GENDER, AND SEXUALITY; EMPIRE AND DECOLONIZATION; THE POLITICS OF AESTHETICS AND THE AESTHETICS OF POLITICS; POST-WORLD WAR II EXPERIMENTAL AESTHETICS; INTERDISCIPLINARITY; SPECTATORSHIP AND PARTICIPATION; MARXIST CRITIQUES OF NEOLIBERALISM; PSYCHOANALYTIC ACCOUNTS OF COLLECTIVE EXPERIENCE; AFFECTS, MOODS, AND ATMOSPHERES; EXPERIMENTAL CRITICISM