Assistant Professor, Performance as Public Practice Women's & Gender Studies Spanish & Portuguese
Bio
Enzo E. Vasquez Toral, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor in Performance as Public Practice at The University of Texas at Austin. His work sits at the intersection of performance studies, Indigenous studies and gender and sexuality studies in Latin/x America, and his publications have appeared in over a dozen of peer-reviewed journals, edited collections and art magazines. His first book, Folkloric Queens: Ritual Infelicities and the Queering of Andean Indigeneity, investigates the critical deployment of Andean folkloric danzas (ritual dance-dramas), Indigenous ways of knowing and aesthetics by contemporary queer and trans performers from Peru and Bolivia. A trained performance ethnographer, Peruvian folkloric dancer and theatre artist, his work envisions intersectional and decolonizing approaches to research that bridge embodied, textual and participatory methodologies to the study of theatre, dance and performance as alternative sites of worldmaking.
Dr. Vasquez Toral is an award-winning scholar who is a frequent guest speaker at universities and activist and artistic organizations in the US and internationally. His research has been supported by numerous grants and fellowships sponsored by universities and institutions such as the Social Science Research Council, the Newberry Consortium in American Indian Studies and the Mellon Foundation, among others.
He serves as the Book Review Editor for Theatre Survey, is the Focus Group Representative (Chair) for Performance Studies at the Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE) and co-edits the book series Queer Performance: International Practices, Histories, and Approaches at Bloomsbury Publishing. He has also served as the program track Co-Chair on “Art, Music, and Performance Studies” for the Latin American Studies Association (LASA) and on the planning committee for conferences such as the American Society for Theatre Research (ASTR).
At UT Austin, he holds appointments in Theatre and Dance; Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies; and Spanish and Portuguese. He is part of the Faculty Advisory Council for the Program in Native American Indigenous Studies, faculty affiliate in the Program in LGBTQ Studies, and faculty associate and former Executive Committee member of the Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies (LLILAS). Before joining UT Austin, Dr. Vasquez Toral taught at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the Gender and Sexuality Studies Program at Northwestern University and is a proud former high school teacher.
Education: B.A., Harvard University; M.A., Princeton University; Ph.D., Northwestern University.
Areas of Expertise
Latin/x American Theatre, Dance, and Performance; Queer and Trans Studies; Indigenous Studies in Abya Yala (The Americas); Queer Indigeneity; Critical Ethnography; Latin American Literary and Cultural Studies; Performance and Queer Theory; Folkloric Dance.
Classes
Indigenous Performance of the Americas; Queer and Trans Performance; Performance Theory; Indigeneity and Performance; Introduction to LGBTQ Studies; Cross-Dressing for the Stage; Performance and Pedagogy (Supervised Teaching); Performance Ethnography; Latin American Theatre and Performance Histories.
Enzo E. Vasquez Toral, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor in Performance as Public Practice at The University of Texas at Austin. His work sits at the intersection of performance studies, Indigenous studies and gender and sexuality studies in Latin/x America, and his publications have appeared in over a dozen of peer-reviewed journals, edited collections and art magazines. His first book, Folkloric Queens: Ritual Infelicities and the Queering of Andean Indigeneity, investigates the critical deployment of Andean folkloric danzas (ritual dance-dramas), Indigenous ways of knowing and aesthetics by contemporary queer and trans performers from Peru and Bolivia. A trained performance ethnographer, Peruvian folkloric dancer and theatre artist, his work envisions intersectional and decolonizing approaches to research that bridge embodied, textual and participatory methodologies to the study of theatre, dance and performance as alternative sites of worldmaking.
Dr. Vasquez Toral is an award-winning scholar who is a frequent guest speaker at universities and activist and artistic organizations in the US and internationally. His research has been supported by numerous grants and fellowships sponsored by universities and institutions such as the Social Science Research Council, the Newberry Consortium in American Indian Studies and the Mellon Foundation, among others.
He serves as the Book Review Editor for Theatre Survey, is the Focus Group Representative (Chair) for Performance Studies at the Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE) and co-edits the book series Queer Performance: International Practices, Histories, and Approaches at Bloomsbury Publishing. He has also served as the program track Co-Chair on “Art, Music, and Performance Studies” for the Latin American Studies Association (LASA) and on the planning committee for conferences such as the American Society for Theatre Research (ASTR).
At UT Austin, he holds appointments in Theatre and Dance; Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies; and Spanish and Portuguese. He is part of the Faculty Advisory Council for the Program in Native American Indigenous Studies, faculty affiliate in the Program in LGBTQ Studies, and faculty associate and former Executive Committee member of the Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies (LLILAS). Before joining UT Austin, Dr. Vasquez Toral taught at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the Gender and Sexuality Studies Program at Northwestern University and is a proud former high school teacher.
Education: B.A., Harvard University; M.A., Princeton University; Ph.D., Northwestern University.
Latin/x American Theatre, Dance, and Performance; Queer and Trans Studies; Indigenous Studies in Abya Yala (The Americas); Queer Indigeneity; Critical Ethnography; Latin American Literary and Cultural Studies; Performance and Queer Theory; Folkloric Dance.
Indigenous Performance of the Americas; Queer and Trans Performance; Performance Theory; Indigeneity and Performance; Introduction to LGBTQ Studies; Cross-Dressing for the Stage; Performance and Pedagogy (Supervised Teaching); Performance Ethnography; Latin American Theatre and Performance Histories.