M.A. Student Biographies
Our students are a large part of what makes Performance Studies special. They come from a wide range of academic, cultural, and artistic backgrounds and create a vibrant intellectual environment. Click on the thumbnails below to learn more about them.
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Temporality; Sexuality; Queer Studies; Psychoanalysis; Performance Theory; Deviance
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performance of literature, the performance of everyday life, the performance of the self, spectatorship, Gender Studies, Performance Theory, Protest Art and Parodic Performances
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MOVEMENT & RELATION; AUDIOVISUAL MALFUNCTIONS & TRANSNESS
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Historical Female Solo Performance; Women, Gender, and Sexuality; The Female Body and Power
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Performance Studies
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Sound studies, improvisation, the sociality and poetics of music and the instrument, gender theory
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Participatory Art; Immersive Theatre; Virtual Performance; Spectatorship; Queer and Feminist Studies; Arts Criticism as Performance
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Queer Theory; Psychoanalytic Theory; Absurdity; Media Studies; Intimacy
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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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Musical Theater
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Indigenous Studies, Colonialism in India, Dance, Bharatnatyam, Feminist Studies
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Intimacy; Trauma Studies; Feminism; Queer Studies
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Performance Studies; Dance; Improvisation, Movement and Choreography; Latin American Studies; Immigration and Diaspora; Dramaturgy
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performance theory; psychoanalysis and the creative mind; performance practice in the digital age; dance and theater studies; interdisciplinary art; arts and dance criticism; communication/language of abstract art and performance; critical race theory, queer, and gender studies in relation to arts education/dance performance pedagogy
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Contemporary feminist and queer performance art, critical race and whiteness studies, queer and feminist theory, visual culture, artistic social practice, theories of coalition
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Theater
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Creative Research
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Queerness and pop music, disability theory, literary and critical theory, digital culture, queer temporality
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Kinesics Studies in Performance, Identity, Digital Performance, Object Ontology and the self, Deleuze & Guattari, Sound, and Theatre studies
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Music, Affect, Performance and Personality, Psychology
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dance; dance and drill team; sport; theories of the body; gender; American studies