People – Center for World Performance Studies

Director

Michael Gould

Director, Center for World Performance Studies
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Staff

Molly Paberzs

Academic Program Specialist, Center for World Performance Studies
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Program Assistants

Alfredo Cabrera, DMA Composition
Xin Yi Chong, DMA Percussion

Advisory Committee

Charli Brissey
Assistant Professor of Dance

Catherine Brown
Director of Undergraduate Studies; Professor of Comparative Literature; Residential College

Antonio Disla
Clinical Assistant Professor of Theatre & Drama

Jason Fitzgerald
Assistant Professor of English Language and Literature

Jenna Gerdsen
Assistant Professor of Theatre & Drama

Michael Gould
Professor of Music; Director, Center for World Performance Studies

Jake Hooker
Program Head, Residential College Drama

Bethany Hughes
Assistant Professor of American Culture and Native American Studies

Mbala Nkanga
Associate Professor of Theatre and Drama

Julie Zhu
President Postdoctoral Fellow; Assistant Professor of Music

Faculty Affiliates

As the interdisciplinary hub for Performance Studies research and scholarship on campus, Center for World Performance Studies seeks to engage Faculty Affiliates from diverse academic and artistic backgrounds, across Departments, Schools and Colleges. Faculty Affiliates are regular presenters in our speaker series, share research findings and methodologies with our Graduate Fellows, participate in our public events, make nominations to our artist-in-residence program, and nominate graduate students from within their own departments to become part of the Graduate Certificate in World Performance. The artists and graduate students nominated by our faculty affiliates make a contribution to the CWPS mission and to the university as a whole.