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Alexis Riley is an interdisciplinary artist-scholar whose research focuses on disability performance in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. She specializes in theatre, dance, performance studies, disability studies, and mad studies, with particular interests in practice-based research methods and accessible pedagogy. Her current book project, 'Mad Memory: Performance Disability Institutionalization,' explores the legacy of medical incarceration and its impact on disability communities through the lens of performance. Riley's research has earned her numerous awards and generous grants, including year-long fellowships from the American Theatre and Drama Society and the Charlotte W. Newcombe Foundation, as well as a President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship from the University of Michigan. In addition to presenting her work in conventional scholarly forums, she draws on archival sources to devise live performances and digital humanities projects aimed at making disability history, art, and culture accessible to a wider audience. These projects inform her teaching approach, which centers on strategies for fostering inclusion in the theatre classroom.
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science