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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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,…

The Roots and Routes of Burlesque and New Burlesque

Major field, advisor: Professor James Wilson Burlesque is a genre that seems to have had nine lives, and historians and critics have kept defending its legitimacy. It has…

Second Exam process

This is the process: you need toIn my department, the Theatre program at The Graduate Center, CUNY, the rules state that the main — or major — field…

Second Exam Visualization

In order for me to get on track with studying for my second comprehensive exam, I have created this page where you can see my progress. I will…