Scholar in Residence: Mario LaMothe
Mario LaMothe is an assistant professor in the Departments of Black Studies and Anthropology at the University of Illinois at Chicago, where he is also a faculty affiliate in gender and women's studies and museum and exhibition studies. He received a doctorate in performance studies from Northwestern University. LaMothe's research focuses on embodied pedagogies of Caribbean arts and expressive cultures, and the intersections of queer lifeworlds and social justice in Haiti. A performance artist, his work has appeared in e-mesferica, Conversations Across the Field of Dance Studies, Women and Performance, the Journal of Haitian Studies, The Routledge Companion to African American Theatre and Performance and Duke University Press’ co-edited volume Time Signatures: Race and Performance after Repetition.
Dr. LaMothe will speak at the Dance Studies Colloquium on Thursday, March 23. His topic will be: Yanvalou For Haiti: An Affective Ethnography of Ayikodans’ Anmwey Ayiti Manman.
