Dissertation: “Vocal Processing in Transnational Music
Performances, From Phonograph to Vocaloid”
Gretchen is a performing artist concerned with presence and
embodiment in computer music, language and cultural difference in
performance, electroacoustic improvisation, and artistic
collaboration.
Lisa Quoresimo is Assistant Professor of Musical Theatre at
Southern Utah University. She is an internationally produced
composer and playwright, and an active director and performer.
Her work has been seen at Berkeley Repertory Theatre (West Coast
Premiere of An Octoroon), Shotgun Players, and the Brava
Theatre, and she served as Artistic Director of the Kairos
Theatre in New York City for many years.
Jessica Suzanne Stokes (they/she) is a disabled poet /
performer / educator / scholar pursuing their PhD at Michigan
State University. They analyze contemporary ecopoetics’ crip
methods for climate survival and read into the experimental
poetics of those who have historically been experimented upon.
They are co-founder of the HIVES Research Workshop and
Speaker Series. Their work has been published
in Amodern and We Are Not Your Metaphor: A
Disability Poetry Anthology. Jessica has a purple wheelchair
and a lot of red hair.
Sarah Thompson recived her Ph.D. candidate in Performance Studies
at UC Davis with Designated Emphases in Classics and Classical
Receptions and Feminist Theory and Research. She earned a B.A.
with High Honors in English from Oberlin College. Her work
focuses on adaptations of Greek tragedy with attention to
feminist issues and modes of performance, as well as the
affective dimensions of translation. Her dissertation examines
relationships between women in Euripides texts and recent
adaptations.
Dr. Emma Leigh Waldron is a Researcher in Internet Culture and a
Lecturer in the Department of Informatics at UC Irvine, where she
teaches courses on games and emotion, games and performance, and
storytelling for interactive media.
