A Conversation with Jac I. Pryor

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Talk by Dr. Jac I. Pryor
Presented as part of PPP's Fridays@2 Speaker Series

The second in a series of virtual discussions will feature alum Dr. Jac I. Pryor (Ph.D. 2011), current Assistant Professor of Theater and Head of Theater and Performance Studies at Penn State Abington. 

The Performance as Public Practice graduate area of the Department of Theatre and Dance celebrates its 20th anniversary with a year-long celebration of engaging the arts. Beginning this spring, Performance as Public Practice Fridays@2 speaker series will feature discussions from a number of alumni and arts leaders. More celebratory events continue into the fall with an event recognizing the accomplishments of Performance as Public Practice faculty, students and alumni. 

In its first two decades, the Performance as Public Practice graduate area has contributed to the fields of theatre, dance, performance, performance studies, theatre studies, dance studies and arts leadership on an international scale by fostering citizen-artist-scholars. Graduates of the program have gone on to teach at major universities, publish books, produce new works for the stage and serve as leaders in a myriad of ways. 

About Jac I. Pryor

Jac I. Pryor is an interdisciplinary scholar, artist and educator who is deeply committed to these practices as sites of research and experiment. Their scholarship centers on live art as it intersects with questions of time and space. This research takes them into the convergent fields of performance studies, cultural studies, queer and transgender studies, critical race and ethnic studies, disability studies, trauma studies and affect theory. Their first book, Time Slips: Queer Temporalities, Contemporary Performance, and the Hole of History, examines the capacity of performance to rewrite histories of racial and sexual violence, as well as to reveal queer and transgender futures not determined by past harm. Time Slips was a 2018 finalist for the Lambda Literary Award in LGBTQ Studies. They are currently working on an edited collection about transgender aesthetics with filmmaker Jules Rosskam.

Date

March 25, 2022 at 2:00 p.m.
Conducted via ZOOM

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