2020 Alumni

PERFORMANCE STUDIES ALUMNI

Our alumni are a large part of what makes Performance Studies special. They come from a wide range of academic, cultural, and artistic backgrounds and contribute their expertise across all concentrations and around the world. Click on the thumbnails below to learn more about them.

B.A. Alumni

M.A. Alumni

  • Ariana Carter

    Ariana Carter

    Feminist Theory

  • Amna Farooqi

    Amna Farooqi

    Theatre; Representation and Narrative in Theatre; Equity Diversity and Inclusion

  • Nína Hjálmarsdóttir

    Nína Hjálmarsdóttir

    Performance art, visual art, performative writing, critical race theory, national image, whiteness studies, Nordic identity, queer theory, coloniality

  • Allison Hsu

    Allison Hsu

    Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies; Asian American Studies; Queer Theory; Disability Studies

  • Jhabri Hughes

    Jhabri Hughes

    sonochromatics, phenomenology, fashion

  • Mateo Hurtado

    Mateo Hurtado

    Sound Studies, Caribbean Studies, the Dramaturgy of Space, Solo Comedic Performance

  • Cati Kalinoski

    Cati Kalinoski

    Performance Theory; Theater History; Museum Studies; Decolonial Studies; Queer Theory

  • Kristen Kelso

    Kristen Kelso

    Theatre Studies, Translation Studies, Bilingualism and Cognitive Development, Latin American and Immigration Studies, Feminist Studies, Politics in Performance and Translation, Performance Theory

  • Manion Kuhn

    Manion Kuhn

    Queer theory; feminist science studies; history of art and architecture

  • Xiao Liu

    Xiao Liu

    performative writing; performance and politics; physical theater; classical reinterpretations

  • Arlesia McGowan

    Arlesia McGowan

    Performance Studies

  • Jabril Muhammad

    Jabril Muhammad

    Comparative approaches to "diversity" and social justice, Black male post-traumatic identity formation, "quantum performance," multimedia knowledge production, applied thought studies

  • Malavika Nair

    Malavika Nair

    Theater Criticism

  • Eva Reyes

    Eva Reyes

    Diasporic Studies, Post-Colonial Subjects, Rhetoric, Parody, Interpersonal Communication, Non-verbal Communication

  • Deepa Somasekhara Pillai

    Deepa Somasekhara Pillai

    Performance and Spaces, Theater and Life as a ritual, Bodies as Knowledge vehicles, Memories and Performances

  • Breanna Taylor

    Breanna Taylor

    Performance

  • Henry Wilcox

    Henry Wilcox

    Improvisation, form, complexity, dimensionality, poetics, nature- and bio-inspired design, AI, cybernetics, trans studies

  • Lukas T. Woodyard

    Lukas T. Woodyard

    Radical writings, thoughts, and acts; deviance; posthumanism/nohumanism; psychoanalysis; discomfort; queer of color critique; visual & performance art

Ph.D. Alumni

  • Samara Davis

    Samara Davis

    Architecture and Critical Spatial Practices; Self and Social Care; Feminist Theory; Performative Writing; Dance Studies; Contemporary Art Theory and Criticism

  • Image pof Ph.D, Kara

    KARA JESELLA

  • Joshua Lubin-Levy

    Joshua Lubin-Levy

    QUEER THEORY, MARXISM, PERFORMANCE STUDIES, DANCE STUDIES, ART THEORY AND CRITICISM, DRAMATURGY AND CURATION

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    Frank Leon Roberts

    James Baldwin Studies & Black Studies

  • Daniel J Sander

    Daniel J Sander

    ART HISTORY

  • Aliza Shvarts

    Aliza Shvarts

    FEMINISM; QUEER THEORY; CRITICAL RACE STUDIES; MARXISM AND REPRODUCTIVE LABOR; CONTRACTS, LEGAL HISTORY, AND CONSENT; SPEECH ACT THEORY, PERFORMATIVITY, POETICS, AND COMMON LANGUAGE PHILOSOPHY; MODERN, POSTWAR, CONCEPTUAL, AND CONTEMPORARY ART; SOUND STUDIES, DRONES, AND BLACK METAL