Kalle Westerling

Kalle Westerling is a Ph.D. Candidate in Theatre and Performance at The Graduate Center, CUNY, where he works on a dissertation about the history and aesthetics of male-identified bodies in 20th-century burlesque and 21st-century boylesque. He is currently an Instructional Technology Fellow at Macaulay Honors College, CUNY. He also coordinates the NEH-funded project “Expanding Communities of Practice,” aimed at helping to create infrastructure for digital humanities across several higher education institutions across the U.S.

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Things I learned from Joan Bolker

These are a few of the ideas that I’ve really taken to heart from Joan Bolker’s Writing Your Dissertation in Fifteen Minutes a Day. I thought some of these loose…

Interactive Visualizations of New York City

I have collected 70 visualizations of New York City, that mostly build on open data. The qualification for a visualization to make it on this list was to…

First Draft of Visualization

I’m working towards a visualization of female impersonators and have produced a first, really messy visualization. That’s OK, though. I like working under the principle of “shitty first…

Received a Connect New York Fellowship!

Today, I found out that I received a Connect New York Fellowship, through two offices at the Graduate Center (CUNY): the Early Research Initiative and the Digital Initiatives….

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…

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