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…

Frustration

I am making huge strides right now in relation to my second exam readings (I am almost entirely finished with my reading for two of the fields). Yet,…

See you at the Annual Boylesque Festival!

Because of my work on stripping men in the burlesque and boylesque, I have gone to every Annual New York Boylesque Festival so far. I am so excited…

Notes of New York City Cabaret Laws

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