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