Kellen Hoxworth

PhD

Kellen Hoxworth.

Kellen Hoxworth

PhD

Kellen Hoxworth

PhD

Research Topics

Theatre and Performance Studies; Black Theatre & Performance; African & Caribbean Performance; Performance in/from the Global South; Historiography; Postcolonial Theory

Education

  • PhD, Theater & Performance Studies, Stanford University
  • Graduate Certificate, African Studies, Stanford University
  • MA, Theatre Arts, University of Pittsburgh
  • BA, English, Washington University in St. Louis

Bio

Kellen Hoxworth (he/they) is Assistant Professor of Theatre at the University of Buffalo, State University of New York. His academic interests focus on the intersections between performance, race, and coloniality, particularly in African and Black diasporic performance. His first monograph Transoceanic Blackface: Empire, Race, Performance traces the transnational circulations of blackface minstrelsy and related forms of racialized performance from the prerevolutionary circum-Atlantic world through the nineteenth-century Anglophone imperium. His writing has been published in American Quarterly, Contemporary Theatre Review, Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism, Modern Drama, Performance Research, TDR/The Drama Review, Theatre Journal, and Theatre Survey. He has also published chapters in several edited volumes, including The Routledge Anthology of Women’s Theatre Theory and Dramatic Criticism, The Palgrave Macmillan Handbook on Theatre and Migration, Mimetic Desires: Impersonation and Guising across South Asia, and Dance in US Popular Culture. His essay “The Many Racial Effigies of Sara Baartman” was selected by the American Society for Theatre Research as the recipient of the Errol Hill Award for outstanding scholarship in African American theatre, drama, and/or performance studies.

An affiliate of the Department of Africana and American Studies and the Department of Global Gender and Sexuality Studies, he teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on performance history and theory, including courses on his research specializations in Black theatre and performance and performance in/from the global south.