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 currently also coordinates two projects. First, 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. Secondly, The Graduate Center’s Program Social Media Fellows where he develops, models, and promotes strategies to foster community engagement with the academic and scholarly work of the institution.

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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….

Digital Humanities in Theatre and Performance Studies

In November, I attended ASTR (American Society for Theatre Research), an incredibly inspiring conference in the field of theatre and performance studies. The theme of the conference this…

Summary of the Postdramatic Theatre

I thought someone might find my summary of the traits of Hans-Thies Lehmann’s Postdramatische theater useful. Here we go: text is merely a component fragmentary and partial abandons…

Dancing with the Digital Dervish: Example of Digital Media/Theatre and Performance

Dancing with the Digital Dervish has been called an “immersive environment,” (Birringer, Performance, Technology, & Science, 143) and one of the “earliest and most influential examples” (David Saltz,…

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…

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