Graduate Students

Max Abner

B.S. in Performance Studies, Northwestern University

Max's work lies at the intersection of Indigenous studies, thing theory, and literary Frontier studies. His project begins with the belief that the cannon of American naturalist literature can be viewed as the curated archive and script...Read more about Max Abner

Miyuki Baker

B.A. in Studio Arts, Asian Studies, Swarthmore College

Miyuki is a resident of the place where many circles overlap. They are a queer, multi-racial/lingual artist, activist & academic passionate about using common or discarded objects, stories, zines, and performance in public spaces...Read more about Miyuki Baker

Miyoko Conley

B.F.A. in Theatre, New York University; M.A. in Individualized Study (Playwriting and Japanese Popular Culture), New York University

Miyoko researches transnational media, fan cultures, and affective technologies, with a focus on Japanese and South Korean popular culture. More broadly,...Read more about Miyoko Conley

Lashon Daley

B.A. in English, University of Miami; M.F.A. in Writing, Sarah Lawrence College; M.A. in Folklore, University of California, Berkeley

Lashon's research focuses on performances of Black cultural expressions in the U.S. She is a 2014 Callaloo Poetry Fellow and a 2015 UC...Read more about Lashon Daley

Bélgica L. del Río

B.A. in Dance and English, University of California, Riverside

Bélgica's current research blends dance studies, Indigenous studies, and new media to witness how Indigenous performativities (such as dancing, singing, sewing, or coding) attend to relationships within and across human and...Read more about Bélgica L. del Río

Talia Dixon

Talia is currently a senior at the University of Utah with plans to graduate with her Honors BFA in Modern Dance as well as a Minor in American Indian Studies in the spring of 2021. As a member of the Pauma Band of Luiseño Mission Indians in San Diego County California, she is passionate...Read more about Talia Dixon

Jess Dorrance

M.A. in Art History, emphasis in Gender and Women’s Studies, McGill University; B.A. in Art History, English Literature, McGill University

Jess is a writer, curator, and Ph.D. student. She writes about the intersections between art, performance, and queer, feminist, and anti-racist...Read more about Jess Dorrance

Randi Evans

B.F.A. in Dance, Cornish College of the Arts; M.A. in Cultural Studies, University of Washington; Certificate in Curatorial Practice in Performance, Wesleyan University

Randi's work and research explores the intersections of dance studies, cultural studies, curatorial practice, and social...Read more about Randi Evans

Juliana Fadil-Luchkiw

BA, Eugene Lang College, The New School; BFA, Parsons School of Design, The New School; MA, Gallatin School of Individualized Study, New York University

Juliana's research deals with how dreams and fantasy are embodied in sociopolitical life under imperialism, in order to examine...Read more about Juliana Fadil-Luchkiw

Patricia Gomes

B.A. in Art History, Global Gender Studies, University at Buffalo; M.A. in Performance Studies, NYU

Patricia is a first-generation American from a Brazilian family who largely grew-up in upstate New York. Her research explores cultural geographies and performance theory for the...Read more about Patricia Gomes

Matthew Jamison

B.A. in Theatre, Women’s & Gender Studies, Ohio Wesleyan University; GEMMA Erasmus Mundus Master’s Degree in Women’s & Gender Studies, Utrecht University (Netherlands), University of Oviedo (Spain)

Matthew’s ongoing research focuses on the ways race, gender, and sexuality...Read more about Matthew Jamison

Cati Kalinoski

B.F.A. in Drama, M.A. in Performance Studies, New York University

Cati Kalinoski is an academic and theater maker whose work examines the ways in which we theatricalize nature, particularly plants and extinction, and how we co-navigate survival, existence, and presence. With particular...Read more about Cati Kalinoski

Zihan Loo

M.F.A. in Studio Practice, School of the Art Institute of Chicago; M.A. in Performance Studies, New York University

Zihan is a queer artist from Singapore with a research focus on distended and pragmatic gestures of resistance under illiberal regimes. His work strives to reconcile the...Read more about Zihan Loo

Caleb Luna

B.A. in Anthropology, Women’s and Gender Studies, University of Texas at Austin

Caleb is a working class fat, brown, queer, living, writing and dancing in Oakland, California. Their work explores the intersections of fatness, desire, fetishism, white supremacy and colonialism from a queer...Read more about Caleb Luna

Fernando Martinez

M.A. in Communication Studies, California State University Northridge; B.A. in Communication Studies, California State University Northridge

Fernando is a first-generation student, performer, and spoken-word artist. His research is centered in areas of performance, diversity, and equity...Read more about Fernando Martinez

Christian Nagler

B.A. in English, Psychology, University of California, Berkeley; M.F.A. in Creative Writing, Brown University

Christian Nagler is an artist, writer, translator, and a Ph.D. candidate in performance studies. Recent writings can be found in TDR, Performance...Read more about Christian Nagler

Aparna Nambiar

B.Sc. in Life Sciences, National University of Singapore; M.A. in Theatre Studies, University of Amsterdam; M.A. in International Performance Research, University of Warwick

Aparna is an Indian classical dancer and performance studies scholar based in Singapore. Her research thus far has...Read more about Aparna Nambiar

Dahlia Nayar

M.F.A. in Dance/Choreography, Hollins University

Dahlia's research and multimedia work investigates the performance of the quiet and seeks unlikely sources of virtuosity. She is a recipient of the Jacob Javits Fellowship, Massachusetts Cultural Council Fellowship in Choreography, and the...Read more about Dahlia Nayar