Hannah Schwadron
is a dance researcher and performer whose creative and scholarly works address critical links between gender and race. She is currently preparing a book manuscript entitled The Case of the Sexy Jewess: Dance, Gender and Jewish Joke-work in US Pop Culture, which uses historical, ethnographic, and choreographic methods to mine questions of self-display. In the book’s multi-sited analysis of porn, burlesque, stand-up, swan parody, mainstream film and magazine spreads, Hannah makes a case for theory-practice methods that animate dance studies discourse, performance pedagogy and choreographies of the stage and page. She is Assistant Professor at Florida State University.