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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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 PhD student. She writes about the intersections between art, performance, and queer, feminist, and anti-racist politics...
Natalia Duong
B.A. in Psychology, Dance, Stanford University; M.A. in Performance Studies, New York University
Natalia is a performance artist, choreographer, and writer, based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her research interweaves performance studies, disability studies, and critical race theory to...
Laila Espinoza
B.F.A. in Community Arts, Individualized Minor, California College of the Arts
Laila is a visual and performance artist, writer and scholar maker of ceremony, ritual and altars. Her work explores the spiritual and somatic permeability between private and public spaces, the home and the...
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...
Juliana Fadil-Luchkiw
B.F.A. in Communication Design, B.A. in Culture and Media / Visual Studies, The New School; M.F.A. in Individualized Study (Aesthetics and Society), New York University
Juliana's work lies between fiction and non-fiction, art and life, and past, present, and future. Along these lines,...
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...
Julia Havard
B.A. in History of Science, minor in Dance, Harvard University
Julia is a Ph.D. candidate at UC Berkeley in the Performance Studies program with a designated emphasis in Gender and Women’s Studies. Her scholarly, activist, and performance work deals with sexual culture as a site of world-...
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...
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...
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...
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, ...
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...
Dahlia Butler 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...
Lyndsey Ogle
B.F.A. in Acting, Northern Illinois University; M.A. in Individualized Studies (Interdisciplinary Curation and Digital Culture), New York University
Lyndsey is an interdisciplinary artist and curator exploring the intersections of cultural discourse, narrative and technology through...
Vincente Perez
B.A. in Anthropology, Comparative Race and Ethnic Studies, University of Chicago
Vincente is a performance poet, writer, and scholar with an interest in the way that artists use narrative to resist and challenge dominant stories that attempt to erase, subjugate, or enact violence on...
Crystal Song
B.A. in History, Ethnicity & Race Studies, Columbia University
Crystal's work explores the ways in which competitive partner dancing simultaneously resists and restages the hegemony of the white, heterosexual partnership. She is especially interested in the aesthetic, choreographic,...
Rebecca Struch
B.A. in Theatre Arts, Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies, University of Minnesota; M.A. in Applied Theatre Arts, University of Southern California
Rebecca is a theatre artist, cultural fieldworker, and educator with a commitment to community engagement through participatory practice....
Jennifer Tamayo
B.A. in Human Development and Fundamentals: Issues & Texts, University of Chicago; M.F.A. in Creative Writing-Poetry, Louisiana State University
Born in Bogotá, Jennif(f)er is Nancy’s daughter. She is a queer, latinx writer and performer whose research attends to (the performativity...
Jaclyn Zhou
B.S. in Journalism, Asian Languages and Cultures, Northwestern University
Jaclyn is interested in the ways that speculative design, which criticizes the present via designs for a theoretical future, can comment on queer futurity. Through studying wearable designs created by queer artists...