Danielle Drees

Danielle Drees studies 20th- and 21st-century performance. Her research examines how feminist, queer, disabled, and working-class artists use theater and other aesthetic forms as sites of political experimentation. Her first book, Change the World Overnight: Sleep as Feminist Performance and Practice, is forthcoming from the University of Minnesota Press. Her scholarship also appears in Signs, the Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism, Frontiers, Performance Research, Theatre Journal, and the Palgrave textbook Teaching Writing in Theatre and Performance Studies. Her classes put contemporary global performance in conversation with longer histories of aesthetic theory and dramatic literature.

Danielle is Affiliated Faculty in the Department of Writing, Literature, and Publishing at Emerson College. She received her PhD in Theatre and Performance from Columbia University and was a Postdoctoral Fellow in Boston University's Kilachand Honors College. Fellowships from Northeastern University's Program in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies; the Heyman Center for the Humanities; Columbia University's Graduate Writing Studio; and New York University Abu Dhabi have supported her work. Updates are available on her professional website.