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Department websiteKelly Presutti
Assistant Professor
Education
Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Departments and programs
Imane Terhmina
Assistant Professor of Francophone Studies
Publications
“Topographie de la terreur: espaces (inter)textuels dans Moi, Khalid Kelkal,” in Salim Bachi, Agnes Schaffauser (dir.), Coll. Autour des écrivains maghrébins, Paris, L’Harmattan, 2019.
Mathura Umachandran
Postdoctoral Associate
Juan Manuel Aldape Muñoz
Assistant Professor
Publications
"Love and Theft in Dance Economies." Performance Philosophy. 2024. Forthcoming.
“Forensic Performances: Searching for Justice in NAKA Dance Theater’s BUSCARTE: Duet,” Theatre Research International. 2022. 40 (1). pp 46-62.
“Pleasure in Circulation: Erotic Power on the Migrant Road to Amarillo,” Investigaciones en Danza y Movimiento, 2020, (v.2, n.3, July-December 2020, pp. 2-17)
“Violence and Performance Research Methods: Direct-Action, ‘Die-ins,’ and Allyship in the Black Lives Matter era.” Performance as Research: Knowledge, Methods, Impact. Eds. Bruce Barton and et al. New York: Routledge, 2018. 311-332.
“The Global Graduate: Graduating in the Time of the Global University,” with Lisa Skwirblies, In International Performance Research. Eds. Sruti Bala et Al. Cham: Palgrave, 2017. 83-94.
“Choreographic Mobilities: Embodied Migratory Acts Across the US-Mexico Border,” In Attending to Movement: Somatic Perspectives on Living in this World. Eds. Sarah Whatley, Natalie Garrett Brown, Kirsty Alexander. Devon: Triarchy Press, 2015. 62-74.
Invited Book Reviews
2023 “To Feel and to Move: Tracing the Borders of Dance Studies and Refugee Studies” Dance Chronicle, Forthcoming
2021 “Moving Otherwise: Dance, Violence, and Memory in Buenos Aires by Victoria Fortuna” Investigaciones en Danza y Movimiento, August 2021.
Education
PhD
Performance Studies
University of California-Berkeley
MA
International Performance Research
University of Warwick (UK)
BA/BFA
Anthropology/Modern Dance
University of Utah