2017 Alumni

NIYOOSHA AHMADI KHOO

AESTHETIC THEORY IN THEATRE AND PERFORMANCE; APPLICATIONS OF COGNITIVE SCIENCE IN THEATRE PRACTICE; PHYSICAL EXPERIMENTATION AND DANCE; EMBODIMENT OF ABSTRACTION AND POETICS THROUGH MOVEMENT; POETICS IN PROSE; PSYCHODRAMA; PERFORMANCE THERAPY; AESTHETICS OF MELANCHOLIA; HYSTERIA AND BRUTALITY IN DRAMATIC LITERATURE; GENDER PERFORMATIVITY; POLITICAL PERFORMATIVITY IN EVERYDAY LIFE; PERFORMANCE OF THE SELF; FEMININE POWER IN GREEK DRAMA; FEMINIST STUDIES IN IRANIAN THEATRE UNDER SUPPRESSION; FILM THEORY; PERSIAN LITERATURE

IGNACIO DE ANTONIO ANTON

RESEARCH; ARTISTIC PRACTICE; PRACTICE AS RESEARCH; CONCEPTUAL ART; PERFORMANCE ART; URBAN ART; SOUND ART; CONTEMPORARY THEATRE; CHOREOGRAPHY; ARCHITECTURE; CINEMA; EXPANDED PRACTICES; ART INSTALLATIONS; PHILOSOPHY

GOLDIE ARNOLD

DRAG; THE PERFORMANCE OF GENDER; THE PERFORMANCE OF WHITENESS; FRAGRANCE; GLAMOUR; FASHION; CLASSICAL MUSIC; TEMPORALITY; WARHOL; POP; THE ARTIFICIAL; TRANS STUDIES; QUEER STUDIES; FAME

CAMILA ARROYO

DANCE AND THEATER PRACTICE; CHOREOGRAPHY; PERFORMANCE AND POLITICS; LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES; FILM STUDIES; PERFORMANCE CURATION

TIANNI (VIOLA) BAO

AVON BASHIDA

MEMORY AND PERFORMANCE; LINGUISTIC PERFORMANCE; PHOTOGRAPHIC PERFORMANCE

TROIZEL CARR

BLACK STUDIES; BLACK PERFORMANCE & AESTHETICS; CRITICAL RACE THEORY; GENDER PERFORMANCE; MASCULINITY; QUEER THEORY; BLACK FEMINIST THEORY; QUEER OF COLOR CRITIQUE; AFFECT THEORY; THEORIES OF BLACK QUEER PERFORMATIVITY; EXPERIMENTAL PERFORMANCE; PERFORMANCE ART; ABJECTION; OBJECTHOOD; NEGATIVITY AND FAILURE

KIMBERLY CUNNINGHAM

WAR; PTSD; PERFORMANCE; THE HORROR GENRE; HOW TRAUMA DESTROYS LINEAR TIME; POSTURES OF TRAUMA, ABSURDITY, AND THE BUFFOON

ALBERT DELGADO

SELENIDAD; LATINIDAD; QUEER THEORY; GENDER AND SEXUALITY; DANCE STUDIES; DANCE AND THEATER PRACTICE; THE PERFORMANCE OF MEMORY; CHOREOGRAPHY

MARO ELLIOTT

MUSIC; SOUND STUDIES; FICTION; LANGUAGE; PERFORMATIVE WRITING; FEMINIST THEORY; CURATORIAL STUDIES

JOANNA EVANS

movement and choreography; de/post/anti-colonialities; queer and feminist theory; black studies and critical race theory; new materialisms; devised and workshop theater; micro-politics; affect theory

LUA GIRINO

POST-STRUCTURALISM; MICROPOLITICS; CONTEMPORARY ART; QUEER THEORY; NEW MEDIA; FILM STUDIES

PATRICIA GOMES

BLACK STUDIES; RACIAL IDENTITY AND PASSING; EMBODIMENT; PERFORMANCE AS SOCIAL ACTIVISM; LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES; GENDER & SEXUALITY; NEW WORLD PERFORMANCE; DIASPORA STUDIES; MEMORY AND TRAUMA

Tianding He

Non-human Performance/Digital Performance/Intercultural Theatre/Somatics

JOY HELLER

DANCE; EMBODIMENT; TRANSNATIONALISM; AFFECT; MEMORY; RACE; GENDER

KRISTEN HOLFEUER

PHYSICAL & VOCAL VOCABULARIES; ASSOCIATION; GLYPHS

CHANDRA INDIGO JACKSON

DANCE STUDIES; FEMINIST THEORY; BLACK FEMINISM; THEORIES OF RACIAL AND MULTI-RACIAL IDENTITY, AFFECT STUDIES, BLACK PERFORMANCE, AND THE CURATION OF DANCE FESTIVALS

ILANA KHANIN

DIRECTING PRACTICE; THEATRE IN TRANSLATION; THE AVANT-GARDE

ANNA KURAN

GENDER PERFORMANCE; THE FEMALE BODY AND IMAGE; HOW WOMEN USE THEIR APPEARANCE AND WARDROBE IN AN ACTIVIST WAY

JAMIE LEE

THEATRE AND PERFORMANCE STUDIES; HISTORICAL AND CULTURAL STUDIES; AFRICAN DISAPORIC STUDIES; DECOLONIAL THEORY AND POLITICS; TRANS-ATLANTIC LITERATURE; FEMINIST AND QUEER THEORY AND PRACTICE; VISUAL CULTURES AND EMBODIMENT; GENDER AND SEXUALITY STUDIES; CRITICAL RACE THEORY

JEONGYUN LEE

MARIONETTE; PUPPET; MOVEMENT; BODY; MUSICAL THEATER; THEORIES AND PRACTICE OF DIRECTING; ACTING; STAGE PERFORMING ARTS; PERFORMANCE STUDIES

ROSALIA LERNER

THE DECENTRALIZATION OF DANCE CULTURE AROUND THE HEGEMONIC BODY

CONSTANTINE LIGNOS

PERFORMANCE STUDIES; RITUAL THEORY; ACTING THEORY; HAUNTOLOGY; PSYCHOANALYSIS; QUEER THEORY; SPEECH ACT THEORY; GEOMANCY; AFFECT THEORY; ETHNOGRAPHY; TIBETAN STUDIES; INDO-TIBETAN BUDDHIST STUDIES

MARK LOCKWOOD

Race and Visual Culture; Black Queer Studies; Black Sexuality

MARIA PIEDAD PAREDES LASCANO

DANCE STUDIES; CHOREOGRAPHIC CREATION; BALLET AND CONTEMPORARY CHOREOGRAPHY; BALLET AND POLITICS; EXPERIMENTAL DANCE; ARTS AND SOCIAL ACTIVISM

MAGNUS ELIAS ROSENGARTEN

POSTCOLONIAL STUDIES; DECOLONIAL THOUGHT; PEOPLE OF COLOR CRITIQUE; BLACK STUDIES; AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES; BLACK FEMINISM; PSYCHOANALYSIS; LITERARY CRITICISM; CINEMA; STORYTELLING; CREATIVE WRITING; PERFORMANCE ART

DIEGO CRISTIAN SALDAÑA

WRITING OF MUSIC AND LITERATURE; SOUND STUDIES; THEATER AND PERFORMANCE

ANTHONY SANSONETTI

CRAFTIVISM; CHILDHOOD; PRAXIS/PROCESS; TRANSGENDER THEORY & POLITICS; DRAMATURGY; JUVENILIA; MEDICAL HUMANITIES; PEDAGOGY; CURATION

YARDEN STERN

QUEER THEORY; POST HUMAN PHILOSOPHY; VISUAL CULTURE; GENDER & SEXUALITY; AFFECT THEORY; TRAUMA STUDIES; PERFORMANCE & TECHNOLOGY; CRITICAL & CULTURAL THEORY

SHOSHANAH TARKOW

DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY; NEW MEDIA; SOCIAL MEDIA; COMMUNICATION; COMMUNITY; IDENTITY; LIVENESS; ARCHIVE; DOCUMENTATION; DUPLICATION; PERFORMATIVE WRITING; PRACTICE BASED RESEARCH; EXPERIMENTAL PERFORMANCE; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

HALEIGH TUTROW

TRAGIC PERFORMATIVITY; PERSONAL PERFORMANCE; SUB-CULTURE PERFORMATIVITY; PERFORMANCE THROUGH MODIFICATION; LIVENESS OF THEATRICAL PERFORMANCE

Summer Kim Lee

FEMINIST THEORY; GENDER AND SEXUALITY STUDIES; CRITICAL RACE THEORY; COMPARATIVE RACE AND ETHNIC STUDIES; ASIAN AMERICANIST CRITIQUE; AESTHETIC THEORY; QUEER THEORY; MEDIA STUDIES; POPULAR MUSIC AND SOUND STUDIES; VISUAL CULTURE