George Doran
E-mail: dorangeorge@ucla.edu
Office Hours: By Appointment
Education
- PhD in Culture and Performance, UCLA Department of World Arts and Culture
- MA in Feminist Performance, University of Bristol, United Kingdom
- BA in Experimental Dance, Hogeschool voor de Kunsten Arnhem, Holland
Research
- Dance Studies
- Performance Studies
- Queer Disability Studies
- Colonialism/Imperialism Studies
Courses
- Introduction to LGBT Studies
- Heteronormative Colonialism
Publications
- Congregating on Denzel: niv Acostas Deconstruction of Black Masculinity.†in Conversations Across The Field of Dance Studies:Dancing the African Diaspora Common Embrace: The choreography of Wellbeing in Rosemary Lees inclusive dancing communities.†In The Handbook on Dance and Wellbeing.
- The hysterical spectator: Searching for critical identification among dancing nellies, andro-dykes, and drag queens. In Meanings and Making in Queer Dance, Unpredictable Maneuvers: Eva Karczags Improvised Strategies for Thwarting Institutional Agendas. In The Handbook of Improvisation in Dance, 2014.
- Negotiating the Spectacle in Transgender Performances of Alexis Arquette, Zackary Drucker, DavEnd, niv Acosta, and Tobaron Waxman.â€
In Transgender Studies Quarterly 1.1:2., 2013. - Forget Provocation, Let’s have Sex. Dance Theatre Journal 25:2.