This dissertation focuses on crises of extractive capitalism as they relate to the migrant, laboring body. Roughly spanning the first three-quarters of the 20th century, …
“Decolonial Dreamwork: Spectatorship, Affect and Indigeneity in Performance” analyzes the use of performance art, dance and theater to consider the problem of colonial inheritance in …
This dissertation investigates how theatricality and performance enter into the scene of contemporary Asian American cultural production. I argue that Asian American artists and writers, …
This dissertation reframes contemporary investments in political performance through an analysis of the politics and practices of the FTA, a GI-oriented antiwar variety show led …
This dissertation poses the “essentially shimmering” as a rubric for conceiving how perception and poetry engage materiality in its most evanescent and changeable dispositions. Think …
The dissertation makes the case that recent digital and performance art practices have compelled a reappraisal of Western feminism, which has become increasingly vulnerable to …
In “Improper Objects: Embodied Aesthetics and the Politics of the Pelvis,” I explore how artists and activists offer new frameworks for understanding race, gender, and …
“Performing Disemployment” argues that theatre and performance practices emerged as the critical nexus between disability politics and the politics of work in the United States …
This dissertation adopts Henri Lefebvre’s Rhythmanalysis as an artistic methodology and applies it to ecologies of more-than-human agency. Each of three pieces addresses a contentious …
"Spectacular Secrecy” tracks the circulation of secrecy within British and American theatre of the long nineteenth century and early twentieth centuries. I focus on how …
The Live and the Life-Like: Theater, Performance, Animation explores intersections of stage and screen as it seeks to reveal the laboring, performing body across aesthetic …
This dissertation explores the changing terms of neoliberal culture that are affectively registered in our most dominant media form, television. I examine the affective texture …