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
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
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-...Read more about Julia Havard
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
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
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
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...Read more about Lyndsey Ogle
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...Read more about Vincente Perez
Crystal Song
B.A. in History, Ethnicity & Race Studies, Columbia University
Crystal is a writer and dancer with a background in ballroom and social partner styles. Her research lies primarily in Asian American performance cultures, with a focus on dance as race- and world-making practice....Read more about Crystal Song
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, educator, and organizer with a commitment to community engagement through participatory practice. Her...Read more about Rebecca Struch
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...Read more about Jennifer Tamayo
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...Read more about Jaclyn Zhou