Kelly Richmond

Overview

Kelly Richmond (she/her) is an artist-scholar and PhD Candidate in the Department of Performing and Media Arts at Cornell University. Her dissertation project “Spectral Ecologies: Performing Queer Hauntings at the Edge of Climate Crisis” examines the prevalence of spectral and other inhuman figures within queer, feminist, and indigenous North American theatre in the late 20th and early 21st centuries, and que(e)ries how haunting might function as an ecological performance intervention.

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