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 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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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…