JEANNE VACCARO - School of Arts & Sciences - University of ...

EDUCATION:
JEANNE VACCARO
Gender, Sexuality & Women’s Studies
University of Pennsylvania
249 S. 36 th Street, Cohen Hall 411
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6304
646 552-0204 / jvaccaro@sas.upenn.edu
2012 Ph.D., Performance Studies, New York University
Dissertation: “Handmade: Everyday Feelings and Textures of Transgender Life”
Advisor: José Muñoz
2005 M.A., Performance Studies, New York University
Thesis: “Give me an F: Radical Cheerleading as Feminist Performance”
2003 B.A., Women’s Studies and Sociology, Smith College
APPOINTMENTS:
2012-14 Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Sexuality Studies
University of Pennsylvania, Program in Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies
PUBLICATIONS:
Essays: “Handmade,” in “Postposttransexual: Terms for a 21 st Century Transgender
Studies,” Transgender Studies Quarterly, ed. Susan Stryker and Paisley Currah
(Durham: Duke University Press, 2014), in preparation.
“Felt Matters,” in Transgender Studies Quarterly Volume II, ed. Susan Stryker
and Aren Aizura (New York: Routledge, 2013); and “The Transbiological Body,”
Women & Performance: a journal of feminist theory 21, no. 3 (November 2010),
253-266.
“Transbiological Bodies: Mine, Yours, Ours,” in “The Transbiological Body,”
Women & Performance: a journal of feminist theory 21, no. 3 (November 2010),
221-224.
“Give me an F: Radical Cheerleading and Feminist Performance,” in “Enacting
Democracy,” e-misférica: performance and politics in the Americas, ed. Diana
Taylor 1, no. 1 (Fall 2004).
Edited: “The Transbiological Body,” in Women & Performance: a journal of feminist
theory 21, no. 3 (November 2010).

Reviews: “Putting Bodies in a Room Together: Baltimore’s Movement Politics,” in Outpost
Journal (Summer 2012).
AWARDS:
You Don’t Have to Fuck People Over to Survive by Seth Tobacman in
Feminist Review (2010).
Diagnosis Difference by Annalise Ophelian in Feminist Review (2010).
make/shift: feminisms in motion in Feminist Review (2009).
The Real Cost of Prison Comix by Lois Ahrens in Feminist Review (2009).
Alice Fantastic by Maggie Estep in Feminist Review (2009)
Handmade Nation: The Rise of DIY Art, Craft, & Design by Faythe Levine in
Sadie Magazine (2008).
2012-14 Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship, University of Pennsylvania
2010-11 Dean’s Dissertation Award, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences,
New York University
2010 Moving Up Day Award for Dedication to LGBT Education, New York University
2004-9 Robert Corrigan Doctoral Fellowship, Tisch School of the Arts,
New York University
2009 Honrable Mention, Ford Foundation Dissertation Diversity Fellowship
2009 Lenore G. Tawney Scholarship, Haystack Mountain School of Crafts
2008 Paulette Goddard Research Award, Tisch School of the Arts,
New York University
INVITED TALKS:
2-27-12 “Encountering Susan,” Institute for Contemporary Art, Philadelphia
3-6-12 “The Woman Question in Art History,” Map of the World Lecture Series,
Hunter College

CONFERENCES & PRESENTATIONS:
6-26-13 “Feelings & Fractals: Wooly Ecologies of Transgender Matter,” Performance
Studies International, Stanford University
6-26-13 “Trans Temporality in Yve Laris Cohen’s Dance & Performance Practice,”
Performance Studies International, Stanford University
11-28-13 “Fouettés or Blood: Temporality, Gender, Viruosity,” Tactical Bodes: The
Choreography of Non-Dancing Subjects, Congress on Research in Dance, UCLA
11-16-12 “Judson Loves Transsexuals,” American Studies Association, San Juan, PR
11-2-12 “Trans-Corporeographic Movement Politics,” in “Everyday Life: Histories of the
Ordinary, Persistant, and Repeated,” American Society for Theater Research,
Nashville
3-3-12 “Bottom Feeders and Extra Terrestrials,” Bad Feminist Readings at the Elizabeth
Sackler Center for Feminist Art, The Brooklyn Museum
10-18-11 “Transgender Dance,” in conversation with artists Niv Acosta, Jennifer Miller,
Devynn Emory and Yve Laris Cohen, Lobby Talks at New York Live Arts
3-9-11 “The Transbiological Body,” performative lecture with Yve Laris Cohen,
Department of Performance Studies at New York University
3-17-10 “Felt Matters,” in “New Affective Lives of Value: Securitization and Foreclosure
in the Age of Neoliberalism,” Cultural Studies Association, University of
California, Berkeley
11-17-10 “Queer Geographies, Transgender Utopia: Cary Cronenwett’s Maggots and Men,”
Trans Week, LGBTQ Student Center, New York University
11-18-09 “Pushing the Boundaries: Beyond Binaries of MtF and FtM,” Trans Week,
LGBTQ Student Center, New York University
5-2-08 “Crafting the Body: Fiber Arts, Gender, and Embodiment,” TransSomatechnics:
Theories and Practices of Transgender Embodiment, Simon Fraser University
11-9-07 “Taking Space: Architecting a Feminist Collaboration,” Performance Studies
International, New York University
10-20-07 “The Feeling of Dead Skin,” UCLA Queer Studies Conference

6-15-06 “State of Right: Performing Transgender Citizenship,” Performance Studies
International, Queen Mary College
TEACHING:
2012-14 University of Pennsylvania, Program in Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies:
Inventing Transgender: Theory, Performance, and Politics
Critical Methods in Sexuality Studies
Feminist Aesthetics
2011-12 Hunter College, Program in Women’s and Gender Studies:
Race, Sexuality, and Science
Classics in Feminist Thought
Transgender Theory and Politics
2009-10 Rutgers University, Department in Women’s and Gender Studies:
Lesbians and Gay Men in Society
Feminist Theories: Contemporary Engagements
2008-9 New York University, Department of Performance Studies:
Transgender Performance & Politics
Introduction to Performance Studies (TA)
Projects in Performance Studies (TA)
SERVICE:
2012 Curator, Trans Ocular: new perspectives in transgender art, media and politics
2012 Organizing Committee, Queer Methods: Discipline and Counter Discipline in
Gender and Sexuality Studies, University of Pennsylvania
2012 Reviewer, Journal of Homosexuality
2011 Reviewer, Signs
2010- Editorial Advisor, Trans Bodies, Trans Selves
2009 Research Assistant, New York University Press
2009 Research Advisor, Gallatin School of Individualized Study, New York University
2003-12 Editorial Board, Women & Performance: a journal of feminist theory