Image of Julia, a white femme with brown hair pulled back, in a burnt orange dress looking saltily at the camera. Ze is under a tree and zir arm is looped around a tree branch as ze raises a tiny apple to zir lips.

Julia Havard, Ph.D. 

(they/them/theirs, ze/zir/zirs)


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About Me

Welcome! Thanks for visiting me on the internet. I'm Julia Havard, a non-binary white disabled femme who loves teaching, writing, dancing, and connecting with community.  I create multi-disciplinary performance work, grounded in my background in dance. I also write across the fields of Performance Studies, Critical Disability Studies, and Queer Studies. My work as a (broken) whole aims to highlight the cultural labor of multiply marginalized performers and activists, to value queer and trans crip sexual culture as essential, and to move however slowly and imperfectly toward a more just world.

Want to get in touch? Email me! julia.havard@gmail.com

Current positions:

Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, Dartmouth College, Department of Theater, 2021-2023



Smithsonian Institution Postdoctoral Fellow, National Museum of American History, Summer 2022 and 2023

Education:

Ph.D University of California Berkeley

Performance Studies, 2021

Designated Emphasis in Gender and Women’s Studies 

                    

B.A. Harvard University, History of Science, 2011

Secondary Field in Dance


 Want to read my whole CV? You can here!

Ketzel, Julia's chihuahua gazes out sleepily from within a bundle of blankets where he is cuddled on a couch.