Kalle Westerling

Kalle Westerling is a Ph.D. Candidate in Theatre and Performance and a Futures Initiative Graduate Fellow at the Graduate Center, CUNY, and Co-Director of Co-Director of HASTAC Scholars, a vibrant student network within The Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Alliance and Collaboratory (HASTAC). Currently, he is completing his dissertation on the history and aesthetics of male-identified bodies in 20th-century burlesque and 21st-century boylesque, “The Roots and Routes of Boylesque: Queering Male Striptease and Burlesque in New York City from 1930s Golden Age Burlesque to the New York Boylesque Festival in the 2010s.”

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IRB Approval!

The IRB application process has been a long and tedious one, for my dissertation project “The Roots and Routes of Boylesque.” But today, on this first day back…

The Queer, Resistant, Historical Bodies of Taylor Mac’s A 24 Decade History of Popular Music: A Curated Conversation

We are so excited to have our “curated conversation” accepted into the 2017 ASTR conference. In the conversation, “The Queer, Resistant, Historical Bodies of Taylor Mac’s A 24 Decade…

Recap: Social Media for Activist Scholars Webinar with Jessie Daniels

In her May 9 webinar Social Media for Activist Scholars, Jessie Daniels recently made some really great points, which I wanted to type out here: 2009 was the…

Where to find LGBTQ periodicals and newspapers

One National Gay and Lesbian Archives (University of Southern California) WebsiteDigital Transgender Archive (College of the Holy Cross) WebsiteSexual Minorities Archives (Holyoke, Massachusetts) Website | Facebook pageFales Library…

Weekly Update (May 8, 2017)

*) contact with two people who will be very informative for my research project *) found and requested some archival material that I’ve really been trying hard to…

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