Year 6 + Ph.D.

PH.D. 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.

  • Sareh Afshar

    Sareh 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

  • Taylor Black

    Taylor Black

    performance and technology; ethics; new media theory; social media; lying; fiction; privacy and surveillance; big data; play; Marxism; utopia

  • Yasmeen Chism

    Yasmeen Chism

    Performance studies, 19th & 20th century black studies, urban studies

  • Image of Ph.D. Candidate Joanna

    JOANNA EVANS

    ANTI-COLONIAL THEORY; BLACK STUDIES; ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES; QUEER THEORY

  • Image of Ph.D Candidate, Kristen

    KRISTEN HOLFEUER

    THEATRE; DOCUMENTARY ART & PERFORMANCE; PROPERTY & PERFORMANCE; PERFORMANCES OF DEVOTION

  • Brandon Masterman

    Brandon Masterman

    QUEER THEORY, SOUND STUDIES, AFFECT THEORY, CRITICAL THEORY, NOISE, ABJECTION, MARXISM, PHILOSOPHY AND NEGATIVITY, THEORIES OF DISCOMFORT, ANNIHILATION, DEATH, FREE JAZZ, MUSIC OF THE AVANT-GARDE

  • Sarah Richter

    Sarah Richter

    Performance studies, anarchist thought and practice, feminism, black studies, theories of reproduction, animal studies, biopolitics, bees

  • Annie Sansonetti

    Annie Sansonetti

    GIRLHOOD; ART HISTORY; TRANSGENDER THEORY & POLITICS; ANGELOLOGY; MEDICAL HUMANITIES; PSYCHOANALYSIS

  • Emily Hella Tsaconas

    Emily Hella Tsaconas

    FEMINIST THEORIES OF THE BODY; BIOPOLITICS; SPORT STUDIES; PREVENTATIVE MEDICINE

  • Christina Yang

    Christina Yang

    Visual Studies; spectatorship, performance and the camera, the politics of invisibility, New York and the avant-garde 1950-present, archive practice, feminist performance and theory