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EDUCATION
2025            Ph.D., Performance Studies of California, Berkeley 

Designated Emphasis in Women, Gender, and Sexuality 

 

Primary Advisor: Dr. Angela Marino
   Committee: Dr. Beth Piatote, Dr. Natalia Brizuela, Dr. Brandi Wilkins Catanese

Dissertation Title: “Geo-corporeal Performance as a Feminist, Decolonial, and Transnational Strategy of Resistance"

2017             MA, Performance Studies
           New York University, Tisch School of the Arts 

2016            BA, Women & Gender Studies and Art History
           University at Buffalo, The State University of New York

RESEARCH FIELDS
Performance Studies, Women and Gender Studies, Indigenous Feminisms, Visual Studies, Black Studies, Critical Indigenous Studies, Hemispheric Studies.

PUBLICATIONS
2025            “Gardens as a Caminho: Ancestral Plants as Strategy of Indigenous Critique in
           Contemporary Brazilian Art” in Plants Beyond Borders, edited volume (Ohio
           State University Press, forthcoming).
2021             “Simone Leigh.” New Time: Art and Feminisms in the 21th Century, University of
           California, Berkeley Art Museum.
2020             “Movements and Stillness: Rosana Paulino’s Tecelãs and Experimentations of
           the Flesh.” Lucero, The Literary Journal of the Graduate Students in the
           Department of Spanish & Portuguese at UC Berkeley. 2020

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
2025            “Experimentations in Land Demarcation: The Performances of Glicéria
           Tupinambá,” “Experiment in Trouble,” UCLA's Center for Performance Studies
           Conference.
2024            “Translating Land Demarcation through the Performances of Gliceria
           Tupinamba,” ASTR Working Group Re-existence: Temporalities and Ecologies of
           Change in the Américas.
2024            “Os espíritos das minhas filhas”: Indigenous Performance, and Feminist
           movements in Brazil,” Latin American Studies Association, Pontificia
           Universidad Javeriana
2024            “Os espíritos das minhas filhas”: Indigenous Art, Performance, and Feminist
           movements in Brazil,” Brazilian Studies Association, San Diego State University
2023             Context and Meaning XXII: SCANDAL, Department of Art History and Art
           Conservation Queen’s University.
2022            “Nós sabemos: Contemporary Indigenous Performance Against On-Going Crisis
           in Brazil,” ASTR Working Group Persistence: Performing through Endless
           Catastrophes!.
2022            If the sea had balconies: A search for diasporic histories in alternative archives,
           embodied practice, and water,” Intersectional Ecologies working group
           Conference, UC Berkeley.
2021            "Lidia Lisboa's cupinzeiros: performing proximity, fugitivity, and Orixa logics,"
           UCLA TAPS Contact: Performing Proximity, UCLA.
2019            "The Elasticity of Blackness: Sonia Gomes, Maya Angelou, and The Fibrous
           Experimentation of Black Feminist Living,” Performance Studies international
           (PSi), University of Calgary.
2019            (Panel Moderator), Ethics of Care: Reflections on Blackness, Art & the Institution,
           Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive.
2019            “Textures of More Life: Sonia Gomes and Black Feminist Forms,” Per(form)ance:
           A Graduate Symposium on Performance and Form, Harvard University.
2019            “‘and still I…’ craft: poetic and fibrous interruptions of black feminist living,” Yale
           Film & Media Graduate Conference, Yale University.
2019            (Translator and Volunteer Organizer.) Anti-Black State Violence Across the
           Americas: Power and Struggle in Brazil and the U.S., UC Berkeley.
2017            “Movements at the End of the World,” (workshop co-convener), Hemi Graduate
           Student Initiative 2017 Convergence Conference, University of Toronto.

TEACHING FIELDS
Performance Theory, Contemporary Indigenous Art, Black Diasporic Art and Poetry, Women of Color Feminism, Political Movements in the Americas, Ecocriticism and the Non-Human, Decolonial Theory and Movements.

TEACHING
2025, Spring        Primary Instructor, Freshman Reading and Composition.
           “TBD”
2024, Fall         Primary Instructor, Freshman Reading and Composition.
           “Indigenous Activism & Art in the Americas”
2024, Summer        Graduate Student Instructor, THEATER 118AC
            “Performance, Television, and Social Media”
2024, Spring         Primary Instructor, Freshman Reading and Composition.
           “Indigenous Activism & Art in the Americas”
2023, Summer         Graduate Student Instructor, THEATER 118AC
            “Performance, Television, and Social Media”
2022, Spring         Graduate Student Instructor, HUM 10
           “Indigenous Arts in the Americas: Old and New Media”
2021, Spring         Primary Instructor, Freshman Reading and Composition.
           “Art and Performance of Women of Color in the Americas, Part II”
2020, Fall        Primary Instructor, Freshman Reading and Composition.
           “Art and Performance of Women of Color in the Americas, Part I”

APPOINTMENTS
2023-2025         Women*’s Resources Graduate Assistant, Gender Equity Resource Center     
2022-2023        Graduate Student Affiliate Center for Latin American & Caribbean Studies    
2016-2017        Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics, Translator and Editorial Assistant


ACADEMIC FELLOWSHIPS & AWARDS
2025            UCLA Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellowship
2024             Conference Travel Grant from the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies
2023            Graduate Division’s Summer Dissertation Writing Grants for Advanced Arts and Humanities
2022-2023         AAUW American Dissertation Fellowship
2022             Thomas Marshall Travel Award ASTR    
2021            Global Black Feminism Workshop, Black Studies Collaboratory
2019-2021        UC Berkeley Chancellor’s Fellowship    

TEACHING FELLOWSHIPS
2024            GSI Teaching & Resource Center’s Working Group, Preparing Future Faculty:
           Designing Courses Through the Lens of Universal Design for Learning
2023            Daniel E. Koshland Jr Fellowship in the Art of Teaching Writing

SERVICE
2020-2023        College of Letters & Sciences Mentor Program, Graduate Student Mentor    
2019-2020        Performance Studies Speaker Series, Organizer
2018-2020        Performance Studies Research Collective, Chair
2018-2020        Graduate Assembly Delegate
2018-2020        From Day One Mentorship Program, CLSD, Berkeley
2018-2019        Co-Chair Graduate Students de la Raza
2018-2019        HSI Task Force, UC Berkeley

 

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

2025             Performance Studies international (PSi)

The American Society For Theater Research
   Brazilian Studies Association 

Latin American Studies Association 

 

CURATORIAL AND MUSEUM EXPERIENCE

2019        Co-Curator. “About Things Loved: On Blackness and Belonging,” Berkeley Art
           Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA.     

2019         Curatorial Fellow. “New Glass Now | Context,” Corning Museum of Glass,                 Corning, NY. 

2019-2025     Tour Guide. Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive Berkeley, CA.    

            “Making Their Mark.” 2025
           “Amalia Mesa-Bains: Archaeology of Memory.” 2023
           “Alison Knowles: A Retrospective (1960–2022).” 2023
           “The Artist’s Eye: Tammy Rae Carland, David Huffman, Lava Thomas, John
           Zurier.” 2022
           “New Time: Art and Feminisms in the 21st Century.” 2022
           “About Things Loved: On Blackness and Belonging.” 2019