2021 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

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    Bryan Batista-Thomas

    Temporality; Sexuality; Queer Studies; Psychoanalysis; Performance Theory

  • Allen Baylosis

    Allen Baylosis

    PERFORMANCE OF LITERATURE, THE PERFORMANCE OF EVERYDAY LIFE, THE PERFORMANCE OF THE SELF, SPECTATORSHIP, GENDER STUDIES, PERFORMANCE THEORY, PROTEST ART AND PARODIC PERFORMANCES

  • Sol

    Sol Cabrini de la ciudad

    MOVEMENT & RELATION; AUDIOVISUAL MALFUNCTIONS & TRANSNESS

  • Nikki Davis

    Nikki Davis

    HAUNTOLOGY, THEATRE AND PERFORMANCE STUDIES, FEMINIST THEORY

  • Lauren Deleon

    Lauren Deleon

    INTIMACY DIRECTION; DECOLONIZATION; TRAUMA STUDIES; NATIVE/LAND STUDIES

  • Wendy Eisenberg

    Wendy Eisenberg

    SOUND STUDIES, IMPROVISATION, THE SOCIALITY AND POETICS OF MUSIC AND THE INSTRUMENT, GENDER THEORY

  • Asya Gorovitts

    Asya Gorovits

    PARTICIPATORY ART; IMMERSIVE THEATRE; VIRTUAL PERFORMANCE; SPECTATORSHIP; QUEER AND FEMINIST STUDIES; ARTS CRITICISM AS PERFORMANCE

  • Sarah G

    Sarah Guilbault

    QUEER THEORY; PSYCHOANALYTIC THEORY; ABSURDITY; MEDIA STUDIES; INTIMACY

  • Jesse H

    Jesse Hathaway

    ORALITY, RITUAL STUDIES, POSTCOLONIALISM, SEMIOTICS OF READING, SYNCRETIZATION AND HYBRIDIZATION IN LANGUAGE/RELIGOUS THOUGHT/CULTURE, PERFORMANCE OF THE EVERYDAY, OCCULT PHILOSOPHY AND PRACTICE

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    Chulsoon Jang

    Musical Theater

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    Shivani Joshi

    INDIGENOUS STUDIES, COLONIALISM IN INDIA, DANCE, BHARATNATYAM, FEMINIST STUDIES

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    Marissa Lane

    INTIMACY; TRAUMA STUDIES; FEMINISM; QUEER STUDIES

  • Cora

    Cora Laszlo

    PERFORMANCE STUDIES; DANCE; IMPROVISATION, MOVEMENT AND CHOREOGRAPHY; LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES; IMMIGRATION AND DIASPORA; DRAMATURGY

  • Victor

    Victor Lozano

  • Sonya

    Sonya Merutka

    art and poetics, disability and animacy studies, queer and trans theory

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    Tanais Perez

    Theater

  • Raymond

    Raymond Pinto

    CREATIVE RESEARCH

  • Evan

    Evan Pyle

    QUEERNESS AND POP MUSIC, DISABILITY THEORY, LITERARY AND CRITICAL THEORY, DIGITAL CULTURE, QUEER TEMPORALITY

  • Yaneirie

    Yaneirie Rondon

    ANA MENDIETA, PERFORMANCE THEORY, CRITICAL RACE THEORY AND IMMIGRATION LAW, IDENTITY AND BODY POLITICS, GENDER VIOLENCE AND THE BODY, DISABILITY AND WOMEN’S STUDIES

  • Aarlene

    Aarlene Vielot

  • Rachel

    Rachel Vishanoff

    DANCE; DANCE AND DRILL TEAM; SPORT; THEORIES OF THE BODY; GENDER; AMERICAN STUDIES

Ph.D. Alumni

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    SAREH Z. AFSHAR

    PUBLIC AFFECT & AESTHETICS OF EVERYDAY LIFE; DEATH & DESIRE; CULTURAL PERFORMANCE AS POLITICAL RESISTANCE; PRECARITY & BODY-/BIO-POLITICS; MEMORY & TRAUMA STUDIES; GENDER & SEXUALITY STUDIES; MEDIA STUDIES; PHOTOGRAPHY & VISUAL ART; ORAL NARRATIVES & POETICS; PERFORMING FICTION; TEMPORALITY & RHYTHMANALYSIS; PERFORMANCE & POLITICS IN POSTREVOLUTIONARY IRAN