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PMA Podcast Transcript: Episode 1, All God's Chillun Got Wings

PMA Podcast Transcript: Episode 1, All God's Chillun Got Wings Performing and Media Arts

Schwartz Center Virtual Tour Transcript

Schwartz Center Virtual Tour Transcript Performing and Media Arts

Fall 2019 Events

Fall 2019 Events Performing and Media Arts

Samantha Noelle Sheppard

Dr. Samantha N. Sheppard is anAssociateProfessor of Cinema and Media Studies and Chair in the Department of Performing and Media Arts at Cornell University.

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Elissa Domingo Badiqué is a 4th year PhD student in the department of Performing and Media Arts at Cornell University. They are a Deans Excellence Scholar and FLAS (Foreign Language and Area Studies) Fellow. An engaged student leader, they served as a SEAP (Southeast Asia Program) Graduate Student Co-chair in co-hosting, co-organizing regular programming such as The Ronald and Janette Gatty Lecture Series, events, scholar dinners, and the SEAP Graduate Student Conference) for the academic year…

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Nick Salvato

Nick Salvato is the Frederic J. Whiton Professor of Liberal Studies in the Department of Performing and Media Arts. He teaches and writes about media and performance practices of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, with an increasing emphasis on late-twentieth-century and early twenty-first-century television. His numerous articles have appeared in such journals as Camera Obscura, Critical Inquiry, Discourse, Modern Drama, Qui Parle, and TDR: The Drama Review. His two most recent books are Obstruction (Duke University Press, 2016), which examines the surprising uses of embarrassment, laziness, slowness, cynicism, and digressiveness in intellectual life, and Television Scales (punctum books, 2019), a formally experimental work that argues for the necessary centrality of the concept of scale in understanding television as a medium. He is currently working on a monograph with the tentative title, Wallowing: On the Uses of Typical Television.

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Caitlin Kane

Caitlin Kane is a doctoral candidate in Cornell University’s Department of Performing and Media Arts. Her dissertation, Acts of Witness: Confronting Testimonial Injustice in Research-Based Performance, draws on feminist philosophy and queer theory to examine how artists use archival, ethnographic, and testimonial methodologies to mitigate particular forms of epistemic injustice. Other research interests include feminist and gender studies, theater historiography, applied theater, the public…

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Joshua Bastian Cole

Joshua Bastian Cole (he/him) holds an MA in Theatre History and Criticism from Brooklyn College and a BA in Theatre & Dance from James Madison University. He has taught in media, communications, and feminist, gender, and sexuality studies departments at CUNY, SUNY, and Cornell.

Cole’s research intersects transgender studies, disability studies, performance, and screen media. Accolades include the Biddy Martin Prize for LGBT Studies and honorable mention and joint win for the 2020 and 2021…

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Jayme Kilburn

Jayme Kilburn is the Founding Artistic Director of the Strand Theater Company in Baltimore City. She is a graduate of the University of California Santa Barbara with a degree in Dramatic Art and Psychology. In 2014, Jayme completed an interdisciplinary master's degree in Humanities and Social Thought at NYU and is currently working towards her Ph.D. in Theatre Arts at Cornell University.

Jayme is an associate member of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Union. For her directing work, Jayme…

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Kelly Richmond

Kelly Richmond (she/her) is an artist-scholar and PhD Candidate in the Department of Performing and Media Arts at Cornell University. Her dissertation project “Spectral Ecologies: Performing Queer Hauntings at the Edge of Climate Crisis” examines the prevalence of spectral and other inhuman figures within queer, feminist, and indigenous North American theatre in the late 20th and early 21st centuries, and que(e)ries how haunting might function as an ecological performance intervention.

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