Following The Performance on
December 6
Mandell Weiss Forum Theatre
Featuring: Allie Moss, Meg Wesling, Rishika Mehrishi, Anna Joy Springer, Julie Burelle
Allie Moss is a third-year MFA student originally from Columbus, Ohio. Prior to attending UCSD, she was based in San Francisco. Allie served as the literary manager and casting associate at American Conservatory Theater, where she dramaturged mainstage productions, co-produced A.C.T.'s annual New Strands Festival, cast mainstage shows, and taught audition prep classes for high school, undergraduate, and graduate acting students. Allie has a BA in Theater from Goucher College and is an associate member of SDC.
Meg Wesling is Associate Professor of US Literatures at UC San Diego, and an affiliate of the Critical Gender Studies Program. She is past faculty director of UC Education Abroad Program in France (2013-2015). She earned her doctorate from Cornell University (English) and her bachelor’s degree from Indiana University (French and Women’s Studies). She is the past recipient of a year-long faculty fellowship at the Society for the Humanities at Cornell University, and of the Hellman and other faculty research fellowships at UC San Diego. Professor Wesling’s monograph, Empire’s Proxy: American Literature and US Imperialism in the Philippines, was published by NYU Press in 2011. She is also the author of numerous essays on American literature, sexuality studies, and feminist theory, published in American Quarterly, MELUS, Mosaic, GLQ, American Literature, and Feminist Review, among others.
Rishika Mehrishi is assistant professor of Performance Studies in the Department of Theatre + Dance at UC San Diego. Her research explores how interspecies performances shape contemporary discourses on caste, religion, gender, and sexuality in South Asia and its diasporas.
Anna Joy Springer is Associate Professor of Writing in the Department of Literature at UC San Diego. She’s the author of two books and has recorded several albums with punk bands Blatz, The Gr’ups, and Cypher in the Snow. Currently Anna Joy is writing a long essay on bird symbology and a book-length rebus about the pleasures of destabilizing biological, social, and symbolic systems of classification.
Julie Burelle is associate professor of Performance Studies in the Department of Theatre + Dance at UC San Diego. Originally from Quebec, Canada, Julie has studied and taught theatre on both coasts of Canada and the United States. Julie's research is invested in a decolonizing project and is in conversation with the fields of Performance Studies, Cultural Studies, and Indigenous studies among others.