ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, Dartmouth College, Department of Theater, 2021-2023
Leslie Center for the Humanities
Mentors: Laura Edmondson and Analola Santana
Smithsonian Institution Postdoctoral Fellow, Summer 2022 and 2023
National Museum of American History
Mentor: Katherine Ott
EDUCATION
Ph.D University of California Berkeley, Performance Studies, 2021
Designated Emphasis in Gender and Women’s Studies
Dissertation: “Queer Burlesque’s Histories, Fantasies, and Futures”
Committee: Abigail De Kosnik (Chair), Juana María Rodríguez, Mel Chen, SanSan Kwan
B.A. Harvard University, History of Science, Cum Laude, 2011
Secondary Field in Dance
PUBLICATIONS
Monograph
In progress Crip Glam: Prostheses of Identity in Queer Disability Culture
Peer Reviewed Articles
In Review “Paradox and Prosthesis: Principles of a Queer Crip Dance Aesthetic,” Journal
of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies.
2022 “Glitter Grief: Eco-Crip Affect for Mourning and Re-building,” Periskop, no. 28,
Fall 2022, 16-33.
Peer Reviewed Articles, Co-Authored
Forthcoming “Awe of What a Body Can Be: Disability Justice, The Syllabus, and Academic Labor,” Performance Matters, Forthcoming February 2023. With Caleb Luna, Jess Dorrance, and Olivia Young.
2020 “Zol Er Krenken un Gedenken (May He Suffer and Remember)…And May We
Remember and Rejoice,” Activist History Review, January 2020. With Yael Horowitz, Online.
2015 “Barriers to Contraceptive Access after Health Care Reform: Experiences of
Young Adults in Massachusetts,” Women’s Health Issues. 25.2. With Besset,
Danielle, Joanna Prager, Danielle J. Murphy, Madena Agénor, Angel Foster, 91-96.
Book Chapters
2020 “Trans memory as Transmedia activism,” Social Movements, Cultural Memory, and Digital Media: Mobilizing Media Remembrance. Ed. Merrill, Samuel, Keightley, Emily, Daphi, Priska. With Abigail DeKosnik, Clement Hil Goldberg, and Paige Johnson, 33-57.
2019 “#WhyIStayed: Virtual Survivor-Centered Spaces for Transformation and Abolishing Partner Violence.” #Identity: Hashtagging Race, Gender, Sexuality, and Nation. University of Michigan Press. Ed. Abigail De Kosnik and Keither P. Feldman, 137-151.
Review
2022 Review of Keah Brown’s The Pretty One, Disability Studies Quarterly, In conversation with Caleb Luna, Jess Dorrance, Indira Allegra and Olivia Young, Online.
Public Writing
2020 Disability and Political Education: An Activist Toolbox, published online as part of the COLA movement at University of California, Google Doc.
2019 “Introduction,” Anti-Oppressive Composition Pedagogies. Radical Teacher Magazine. Issue 115. With Erica Cardwell and Anandi Rao, 1-6.
2019 Co-editor, Anti-Oppressive Composition Pedagogies, Radical Teacher Magazine.
2017 The Official Anti-Milo (digital) Toolkit, open-source digital manual to build campus resistance against the far-right provocateur, circulated internationally, Google Doc.
2017 White Supremacy and ‘Free Speech’ on College Campuses: A (Digital) toolkit,
Google Doc.
2015 Survivors’ Symposium Zine, documenting participant experiences at symposium.
Publication Pipeline
Accepted “Feeling Liberation: Queer Gestures Toward a World without Rape in Jadelynn St. Dre’s Choreographies of Disclosure,” in Sex on Stage: Writing the Body Politic. Eds. Lynne Sally and Allie Car, under consideration by Oxford University Press.
Accepted “Mir Veln Zey Iberlebn (We Will Outlive Them): Joy and Rage as Queer Yiddish Anti-fascist Performance,” in Revolutionary Aesthetics. ed. Z. Zane McNeill and Fen Kennedy, under consideration by AK Press. With Yael Horowitz.
In progress Book project, Choreography and Pain.
FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS
2021 Michael Mansfield and Randy Sweringen Social Justice Award for Artistic Excellence in Creating a More Equitable and Inclusive World, UC Berkeley Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies
2020 American Cultures Ethnic Studies Fellowship for Activist Scholarship, UC Berkeley
2020-2021 University of California Dissertation Year Fellowship for strong potential in university teaching and research
2020 Graduate Division Summer Dissertation Writing Fellowship for Advanced Arts and Humanities Students
2019 Newhouse Fellowship, Center for Jewish Studies, UC Berkeley
2014-2018 Hickman Departmental Award for graduate study, TDPS, UC Berkeley
2018 Advanced Graduate Student Art of Teaching Writing Fellowship, Art of Writing program, Townsend Center for the Humanities, UC Berkeley
2017-2018 Doctoral Completion Fellowship, Graduate Division, UC Berkeley
2016 CED Department of Architecture Diversity Platforms Award, UC Berkeley (declined)
2014 Ancker Fellowship for graduate study, TDPS, UC Berkeley
2011 Center for Public Interest Careers Fellowship, Harvard University
GRANTS
2022 Leslie Center for Humanities Project Grant for “Queer Disability Lecture and Performance Series,” Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH ($24,700)
2020 Arts and Accessibility Grant for dance piece “Tiny Glitter Dances,” National Arts and Disability Center UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
2019 Pedagogical Committee Scholarship for Yiddish Summer Program in Berlin, Germany
2019 Osborne Artist Fund Grant for Jadelynn Stahl Guest Artist in “Writing Sex in Media and Performance,” TDPS, UC Berkeley
2018 Daniel E. Koshland Course Development Grant for “Writing Sex in Media and Performance,” English, UC Berkeley
2017 Graduate Student Grants Program Awardee for working group, “Radical Decolonial Queer Pedagogies of Composition,” Center for Race and Gender, UC Berkeley
2016 Osborne Artist Fund Grant for Erica Cardwell Guest Artist in “Trans-ing Queer Theory,” TDPS UC Berkeley
2016 Townsend Center Grant for working group, “Radical Decolonial Pedagogies of Composition”
MEDIA AND PERFORMANCE
2021 “Tiny Glitter Dances,” Dance film directed and choreographed over Zoom, National Arts and Disability Center
2019 Founding member of Bay Area Disabled Dance Collective, curated Queer Disability Dance Pedagogy Workshop series
2019 “Grief Diamonds” choreographer and dancer, Disability Arts and Culture Symposium, Ysplanti, MI
2018 “Crumple and Mend Room,” Art Installation for Center for the Study of Sexual Culture’s conference “Ev’ry Body this Time,” UC Berkeley
2018-2020 Burlesque performer (White Horse Bar, F8 SF, Nudie Nubies SF, Cherry Lane Theater NY, New York, and online platforms)
2018-2020 Choreographer/ dancer, Bay Area, CA (Milkbar Richmond, CA, Danspace Oakland, CA, Portrait Maker experimental chamber music ensemble, Oakland, CA)
2018 Artist Panel, “Chancellor Drag,” Fresh Fest, Poppy Art House, San Francisco, CA
2015 Director and dancer, “Lab Run: Funeral of Necessity,” Room 7, UC Berkeley
2013 Choreographer, “Inhabit” performance art, “Clash Zones: (R)evolutions in Identity” conference, MIT, Boston, MA
2012-2013 Choreographer, Cambridge MA (Loeb Experimental Theater, Harvard Dance Center, American Repertory Theater Loeb Mainstage)
2011-2014 Choreographer, Brooklyn and New York, NY (“Yarn and You,” a dance-powerpoint performance lecture at Dixon Place Hot! Fest, “Tender: a dance-play” at Bushwick Open Studios Chez Bushwick, Wow Café Theater, Triskelion Arts, “Head Space” at Fourth Arts Block Festival, Works in Progress at Dance New Amsterdam, Kraine Theater)
2011-2014 Dancer, Brooklyn and New York, NY (Co-Lab, Triskelion Arts, Wow Café Theater, Chez Bushwick Residency Showing, Center for Performance Research, Dixon Place)
INVITED LECTURES
2016 Keynote with Abigail De Kosnik “What is this ‘Trans’ in Transmedia?” University of Oregon
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
2022 “Caressing a Queer Disability Dance Aesthetic,” Dance Studies Association, Vancouver, CA
2022 “Bed Dance: Queer Crip Legacies of Dancing from Bed,” American Society for Theater Research, Working Group: “Innovation and Risk: The Stakes of Sexual Performance During the COVID-19 Pandemic,” Virtual
2021 “Bay Area Disabled Dance Collective: Choreographing Aesthetics of Care,” Film Screening and Workshop, Society for Disability Studies, Virtual
2020 “Visioning New Worlds and Recalling the Old World in Queer Yiddish Drag and Burlesque,” Performance/ Presentation, Association for Jewish Studies, Virtual
2020 “Queer Burlesque’s Histories, Fantasies, and Futures,” Conflux 2020, TDPS Research Conference, UC Berkeley
2019 “Queer Appropriation and Re-appropriating Queer in Anti-racist Burlesque Performance,” National Women’s Studies Association, San Francisco, CA
2019 “Building theatrical time machines (with Crip Technoscience and cyborg bodies),” Technocultures Workbench: Making and Thinking Futures, UC Berkeley
2019 “Stretching Time: Burlesque objects, queer crip portals, and transformative mess,” Performance Studies international, Calgary, OT
2018 “Working our Workplaces: Can the student labor movement be decolonized?” Co-presented with Christina Acosta, Alexia Araña, Blu Buchanan, Beezer de Martelly, and Anandi Rao. Panel at National Women’s Studies Association, Atlanta, GA
2018 “Arousal and Precarious Labor in Burlesque,” Working Group, American Society for Theatre Research, San Diego, CA
2017 “The Official Anti-Milo (digital) Toolkit,” Digital Dissent event, Berkeley Center for New Media, UC Berkeley
2017 “Pissing Warriors Against Trump: Burlesque babes top us for social change + femme love,” José Muñoz Queer Nightlife working group, ASTR, Atlanta, GA
2016 “Shitting Glitter and Tracing Touch: Glitter pills and the queer remaking of the surface,” Performance Lecture, Performance Studies international, Melbourne, Australia
2015 “Shitting Glitter and Tracing Touch: Glitter as mode of inquiry.” OCAD University Multiple Li(e)ves of Artists conference, Toronto, Ontario and Townsend Queer Theory Working Group Conference, UC Berkeley
2015 “Nonlinear Healing for Survivors of Trauma,” Survivors’ Symposium, UC Berkeley
2014 “Navigating the Affordable Care Act and the Effect on LGBTQ Populations.” Callen-Lorde Community Health Center. Presented at Callen-Lorde, PERSIST, HOOK, Brooklyn Public Library, New York, NY, research poster for Lesbian Health Conference
2013 “Queer Art Making and Community,” Interpretations of Success: A Conference for Emerging Artists and Art Forms, Loft 594, New York, NY
CONFERENCE AND SYMPOSIUM ORGANIZATION
2023 Crip Futures: Disability Culture at Dartmouth 2023
Organized three types of disability culture events: the Queer Disability Performance Series, two Crip Pedagogy Panels, and a Disability Justice Study Group
Created website (that you can check out here) to feature events, collect RSVPs, and garner interest
Queer Disability Performance Series, Dartmouth College
Series of lectures and performances by queer disabled scholars and artists including LaFemmeBear, Caleb Luna, Olivia Young, and Rafi Ruffino Darrow
Crip Pedagogy Panels, Dartmouth Center for the Advancement of Learning
Panel on Crip Pedagogy and Universal Design for Learning
Crip Pedagogy Strategies and Resources Roundtable
Disability Justice Study Group, WGSS Department, DCAL
2018 “Ev’ry Body This Time,” Conference, Center for the Study of Sexual Culture, UC Berkeley
International convening of queer crip scholars such as Kim TallBear, Amber Jamilla Musser, and Alison Kafer presenting alongside undergraduate and graduate students
2017-2020 Speaker Series, Center for the Study of Sexual Culture, UC Berkeley
Three lectures per year with prominent artists and scholars in sexual culture scholarship such as Uri McMillan, Sara Ahmed, and Xandra Ibarra
2015 Survivors’ Symposium, UC Berkeley
Symposium for students, faculty, workers around ending sexual violence at UC Berkeley
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies, UC Berkeley
2020 Teaching Assistant, “Dance and Race in American Cultures”
2019 Instructor, “Writing Sex in Media and Performance”
2019 Instructor, “Writing Sex in Performance and Media”
2018 Teaching Assistant “Introduction to Performance Studies”
2017 Teaching Assistant, “Performance Theory: Performance, Television, and Social Media”
2017 Instructor, “Let’s Talk about Sex: Writing Sex in Health, Performance, and Politics”
2016 Teaching Assistant, “Performance Theory: Performance, Television,
and Social Media” (2 sections)
2016 Instructor, “Trans-ing Queer Theory: Activism and Performance in Academic Writing”
Other Teaching
2022 “Queer Disability Dance Aesthetic,” Guest lecture for “Representations of Disability,” Rice University
2022 “Sins Invalid and Disability Justice,” Guest lecture for “Race, Gender, and Performance,” Dartmouth College
2021 “Queer Disability Studies Methods,” Guest lecture for “Feminist and Queer Research Methodologies,” Mills College
2021 “Introduction to Movement Translation,” Guest class for “Beginning Modern Dance,” UC Berkeley
2020 “Queer Crip Ballet,” Guest class for “Dance and Race in American Cultures,” UC Berkeley
2019 “Survivor Magic,” Guest Lecture for online course “Performance Theory: Performance, Television, and Social Media,” UC Berkeley
2019 “Integrated Queer Ballet,” Workshop for Theater Dance and Performance Studies Department, UC Berkeley
2019 “Queer Crip Ballet,” Workshop, Disability Arts and Culture Symposium. Ypsilanti, MI
2018 “Rhinestones, Wigs, Glitter Slime: Materials of Queer Burlesque,” Guest lecture for “Introduction to Performance Studies,” UC Berkeley
2014 “Choreography as Practice of Social Change,” Guest lecture for “Reading NYC: Method meets art in the city,” The New School
2013 “Body Work,” Queer Dance Class Series, Wow Café Theater, New York, NY
2012-2014 GenSex NYC, created, designed, and facilitated gender and sexuality 13 week course open to all NY adults
WORKSHOPS AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
2022 Universal Design for Learning Institute: Action & Expression, Dartmouth Center for the Advancement of Learning
2022 Accessible Dartmouth Initiative workshops “Reaching Everyone with Universal Design for Learning” and “Supporting Neurodiverse Learners,” Dartmouth Center for the Advancement of Learning
2022 Center for Improving Mentoring Experiences in Research (CIMER) Mentoring Series for Graduate Students and Postdocs, Dartmouth Center for the Advancement of Learning
2020 T.R.A.I.L. Certificate for Prevention and Response, leadership and commitment to ending sexual violence and harassment, Path to Care Center, UC Berkeley
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
2017-2020 Graduate Student Researcher for the Center for the Study of Sexual Culture
Coordinated over 10 events and graduate workshops, conference planning for “Ev’ry Body This Time” 2018
2015-2016 Graduate Student Researcher for Prof. Abigail De Kosnik
Conducted interviews about online viewing practices and content, presented research at Warner Brothers, edited manuscript of Rogue Archives
2013-2014 Insurance Navigator, Callen-Lorde Community Health Center, New York, NY.
Worked at over 10 sites throughout four boroughs to connect LGBTQ youth with affordable healthcare and Medicaid
2011-2013 Clinical Research Coordinator, Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York, NY
Cancer research in new technologies to detect esophageal neoplasia; multicenter international clinical trials, NIH grant writer
2009-2011 Intern Ibis Reproductive Health, Cambridge, MA
Wrote literature review about Health Reform in MA, conducted focus groups in English and Spanish
SERVICE
2022 American Society for Theater Research, Working Group Co-Facilitator, “Innovation and Risk: The Stakes of Sexual Performance During the COVID-19 Pandemic”
2020-2021 Dance Studies Working Group Coordinator, Townsend Center, UC Berkeley
2020 Disabled Dance Pedagogy initiative for disabled dance teacher training and professional development, Bay Area Disabled Dance Collective, Oakland, CA
2020 University of California Tenants Union, founding member
2019-2020 Disability and Sexuality Studies Working Group Coordinator, Center for the Study of Sexual Cultures, UC Berkeley
2018-2019 Equity & Inclusion Committee Member, TDPS, UC Berkeley
2018 Student Coalition for Disability Rights campaign for Disability Culture Space, UC Berkeley
2016-2018 Radical Decolonial Queer Pedagogies of Composition Working Group Coordinator, Townsend Center, Center for Race and Gender, UC Berkeley
2015-2018 Head Steward (elected position) for UC Student Union, UAW 2865
Teach-ins: Disability Justice 101, Undoing Oppressive Labor Dynamics, Founded Arts and Activism Collective, ASE Organizer for Orientation Activities
2014-2015 Events Committee Graduate Representative, TDPS, UC Berkeley
2014-2015 Graduate Speaker Series for Performance Studies Co-coordinator, TDPS, UC Berkeley
2014-2016 UC Berkeley Bathroom Brigade, coalition of faculty and students for all-gender bathrooms on campus
LANGUAGES
Spanish - proficient in reading and writing
Yiddish - beginning
Rabbinic Hebrew - beginning
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
Society for Disability Studies
American Society for Theater Research
Dance Studies Association
National Women’s Studies Association
Performance Studies international
Association for Jewish Studies