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Leon J. Hilton is an Associate Professor in Theatre Arts Performance Studies at Brown University, where he also serves as the Associate Chair of the department. His academic interests lie at the intersection of modern and contemporary theatre performance, disability studies, neurodiversity, feminist queer theory, and psychoanalysis. He authored 'Counter-Cartographies: Neurodivergence Errancies Performance' through the University of Minnesota Press, a work that critically examines how cultural attitudes toward neurological disability and difference operate within varied performance genres, from theatre to documentary film. Before joining Brown, Hilton was a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Humanities at the University of Pennsylvania. He earned his PhD from the Department of Performance Studies at New York University in 2016, and received his BA from Wesleyan University in 2007. His work has been recognized with multiple awards, including the Mellon Emerging Faculty Leaders Award in 2022 and the Richard B. Salomon Faculty Research Award at Brown University. Hilton has published in various academic journals, contributing to scholarship in disability studies and performance. He was also the managing editor for a period and is actively involved in various scholarly associations, including the American Society for Theatre Research and Performance Studies International.
Department: Department of Economics