2019 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

  • Hallie Abelman

    Hallie Abelman

    ANIMAL STUDIES; DEHUMANIZATION; ANTI-RACIST STUDIES; ECO-THEATRE; CRITICAL RACE THEORY; BLACK VEGANISM; STORYTELLING; COMEDY

  • CARMEN ANTREASIAN

    CARMEN ANTREASIAN

    PSYCHOANALYTIC THEORY; POSTSTRUCTURALIST FEMINIST THEORY; POSTCOLONIAL THEORY; DANCE & EMBODIMENT; GENDER & SEXUALITY; QUEER STUDIES

  • FELIPE BONILLA

    FELIPE BONILLA

    AFFECT THEORY; CRITICAL THEORY; RACE THEORY; FEMINISM; CARNAVAL; THEATER OF THE ABSURD

  • FLORA LINA BRANDL

    FLORA LINA BRANDL

    LOGISTICS AND CONTAINERIZATION; GRIDS; PERFORMANCE AND MIGRATION; ANIMAL STUDIES; INTERSPECIES COLLABORATION; POSTHUMAN DANCE; CRITICAL THEORY

  • WILL GREEN

    WILL GREEN

    BLACK QUEER STUDIES; MOVEMENT THEORY; IMPROVISATION; RITUAL; STATES OF TRANSCENDENCE/IMMANENCE

  • JESS SALDAÑA

    JESS SALDAÑA

    QUEER QUOTIDIAN MOTION; NONHUMANISMS; COGNITIVE LINGUISTICS; HAUNTOLOGY; DISABILITY STUDIES; LATINX STUDIES

  • ANNIE SEMINARA

    ANNIE SEMINARA

    PERFORMANCE AND PUBLIC TRANSPORT; THEORIES OF MOVEMENT; LABOR AND PERFORMANCE; MARXISM AND PERFORMANCE

  • DAVID SIERRA

    DAVID SIERRA

    LITERARY CRITICISM; LINGUISTICS; HISTORIES OF MEDICALIZATION; QUEER THEORY; TRANSGENDER POLITICS; VISUAL CULTURE; PERFORMANCE ART

  • ANH VO

    ANH VO

    Dance Studies, Porn Studies, Queer Theory, Media Studies

  • ZACK WILKS

    ZACK WILKS

    FOOD STUDIES; SOUND STUDIES; GESTURE; QUEER THEORY; INSTITUTIONAL PERFORMATIVITY; AFFECTIVE BELONGING; DECOLONIAL STUDIES

  • SHANNON WOODS

    SHANNON WOODS

    DANCE STUDIES; THEORIES OF MOVEMENT; GENDER STUDIES; FEMINIST CRITIQUES

  • SUNMI YONG

    SUNMI YONG

    CURATORIAL THEORIES AND PRACTICES IN RELATION TO PERFORMANCES; MUSEUM STUDIES; ARCHIVAL STUDIES; DANCE AND MOVEMENT STUDIES; LABOR STUDIES; IDENTITY POLITICS; DECOLONIAL STUDIES

Ph.D. Alumni

  • Marc Arthur

    Marc Arthur

    AESTHETICS AND POLITICS; CRITICAL RACE THEORY; QUEER THEORY; THEATER AND PERFORMANCE ART; VISUAL STUDIES

  • James McMaster

    James McMaster

    Performance Studies, Asian American Studies, Queer Studies, Affect Studies, Socialist Feminism

  • Olivia

    Olivia Michiko Gagnon

    Archival Entanglements: Re/Encountering History in Contemporary Decolonial, Feminist, and Queer Art and Performance

  • Richard Move

    Richard Move

    Dance Studies, Media Studies, Gender Studies