Jaclyn Pryor

Biography
Jaclyn Pryor, visiting assistant professor of queer studies and public practice, received her B.A. from Washington University in St. Louis and her M.A. and Ph.D. from The University of Texas-Austin.

Her teaching and research focuses on LGBTQ social and political movements; queer theory; feminist theory; critical race studies; art in public places; the performance of identity; public feelings; time-based arts; trauma and memory; physical theatre; and the politics of citizenship. Her artistic practice includes large-scale performance installations and site work.

Publications include "Passing/Out in Texas: The Challenges of Progressive Pedagogy in Conservative Climates" (Theatre Topics) and "Colleague-Criticism: Performance, Writing, and Queer Collegiality" (Liminalities: A Journal of Performance Studies). Jaclyn was also a contributing writer for the anthology, Experiments in a Jazz Aesthetic: Art, Activism, Academia, and The Austin Project. She is currently adapting her dissertation, Time Slips: Queer Temporalities in Performance After 2001, into a book.

Jaclyn also teaches in the Department of Gender Studies at Mt. Holyoke College.

Fall 2011
@ Hampshire College--

Performing Identity: Race/Gender/Sexuality in Theory and Practice

@ Mt. Holyoke College--

Introduction to Gender Studies 101-01

Introduction to Gender Studies 101-02