Current Contributor Biographies

Aliza Shvarts is a first year Ph.D student at the department of Performance Studies at NYU. She received her BA from Yale University in 2008, with a double major in English and Art. Her artwork has appeared in the LOOP International Video Art Fair in Barcelona, the Slought Foundation in Philadelphia, and the Tate Modern in London. .

Jeffery Lorenzo Perillo is currently a Fulbright fellow researching Filipino identity, empire, and diaspora through hip-hop dance. Lozo’s Pilipino community and hip-hop dance experiences for the last decade inform his role as a doctoral candidate in Culture and Performance with a dual focus in Dance Studies and Asian American Studies at UCLA.

Khai Thu Nguyen is a James R. Gray lecturer and postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies at University of California, Berkeley.

Ryan Hartigan is an artist and scholar from Aotearoa-New Zealand, a Chapman Tripp award-winning director and performance maker, and PhD student in Theatre and Performance Studies at Brown University. He won ADSA's Veronica Kelly Prize in 2007, was Graduate School Fellow at the University of Minnesota in 2007-8, and runner-up in the TaPRA postgraduate competition 2009. In 2010, he was selected for the ATHE PSFG Emerging Scholars Panel. His research focuses upon performance and postcoloniality, considering corporealized historiographies as temporal disruptions of the colonial moment.