PS Spotlights
Bobbie Boettinger
Bobbie’s primary area of study is in Critical Race Studies within the music industry specifically Rap/Hip-Hop music along with R&B music. Her musical influences are Amy Winehouse, Rihanna and Jhené Aiko leading her to also focus on women empowerment within the heavily male-dominated genres within the industry.
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Troizel Carr
Black studies, Black queer studies, African Diasporic art history, aesthetic theory, pop cultural studies, folklore/fairy tale studies, political philosophy.
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Nick Bazzano
Ph.D. Candidate whose focus lies in critical and cultural theory, sound studies, affect theory, media studies, Deleuze & Guattari, speculative realisms and new materialism, aesthetic capitalism, and hyperstition.
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Yasmeen Chism
Ph.D. Candidate and M.A. graduate whose primary focus lies in the interdisciplinary nature of her research and seeks to understand how dreams work as an articulation of desires for minoritarian objects.
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Ann Pellegrini
Professor of Performance Studies and Social and Cultural Analysis, Ann is also the Director of NYU's Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality. She is currently a candidate in adult psychoanalysis at the Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research (IPTAR) in New York City.
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Richard Schechner
Professor Emeritus and founder of the Department of Performance Studies, Richard is also the founding artistic director of East Coast Artists and editor of TDR: A Journal of Performance Studies.
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Tara Aisha Willis
Ph.D. Candidate and M.A. graduate of Performance Studies. Her writing focuses on black tactics of ambiguity and destabilization in recent dance experimentation and the invisibilization of racial dynamics in New York's experimental dance communities.
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Richard Move
Ph.D. Candidate and the Artistic Director of MoveOpolis! and Move-It! Productions. He is a TEDGlobal Oxford Fellow and TEDxWhiteOak co-curator and organizer.
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Barbara Browning
Professor of Performance Studies, Barbara is working on intermedia fiction/performance and a semi-fictional documentary film.
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Joanna Evans
Joanna is a first-year Ph.D. Candidate at the Department of Performance Studies. A South African theatre artist, playwright and performance scholar based in Brooklyn, their research is moved by improvised and ensemble performance practices, decolonial exigency, material animacy, queer intimacy, and communal knowledge.
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Alexandra T. Vazquez
Alex is the Director of the Graduate Program at Performance Studies. Her focus lies in music with concentrations in U.S. Latina/o and Latin American Studies, Caribbean aesthetic theory, and Race and Ethnicity.
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