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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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…

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…

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…