Nikki Davis an artist, writer, historian, and wanderer. She researches and communes with the ghosts of feminine persons who were put to death for asserting various kinds of authority or bodily autonomy within patriarchal societies which deemed such assertions threatening and deserving of death. She is continuously evolving her performance practice, “Theatre of the Ghostly Feminine,” a practice of embodying feminine ghosts as a mode of historical storytelling, present-day reckoning, and alternative imagining.

Areas of concentration/study:

Hauntology, Theatre and Performance Studies, Feminist Theory

Study Abroad Site(s):

University of Edinburgh, British American Drama Academy

Capstone/Thesis/Dissertation Title:

 "Marie Regina: The Life of Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots"

Why PS @ NYU?

Performance Studies offers new lens through which to consider the ghost(ly) and embodied practices.