Profiles in "Performance Studies" Expertise Area

  • Linde teaches performance studies courses, advises and directs creative scholarship at The Empty Space.
  • Sha's research concerns ethico-aesthetic improvisation, and a topological approach to morphogenesis and process philosophy.
  • As an international clinician, solo performer, and advocate for music education, Swoboda has presented and performed at prestigious conferences and meetings. She is an Eastman tuba artist.
  • Edson teaches undergraduate courses in rhetorical theory and feminist rhetoric She supervises the graduate teaching associates and assistants and is the director of the summer study abroad program.
  • Olenina specializes in Russian literature and visual culture, as well as media theory with an emphasis on performance and embodied spectatorship.
  • Dr. Sandoval currently researches celebrations of DAY OF THE DEAD in the U.S. in order to examine how the holiday has developed from ancient MesoAmerican ritual to American popular culture.
  • Megan Todd, a performance studies scholar and embodied movement practitioner, teaches humanities, creative practice, performance and theory, as well as leadership and project management.
  • Suhara has been teaching Asian religion and culture courses at the University of Pittsburgh, University of Arizona, and Arizona State University. His works have been published in multiple Japanese journals.