Pratt Institute

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D.O.H., Global Theater, Film

Biography

May Joseph is a puppeteer, theater director and Founder of Harmattan Theater in New York City. www.harmattantheater.com Joseph is Professor of Global Studies in the Department of Social Science and Cultural Studies at Pratt Institute, New York.  Joseph has written widely on globalization, urbanism, performance and visual culture.  Her Fellowships and Awards include a Cornell Society for the Humanities Fellowship (Declined), Mellon Grant, Ford Foundation Grant, Rockefeller Fellowship at the Asian/American Center, CUNY, Pembroke Center Post-Doctoral Fellowship at Brown, a Post-Doctoral Fellowship at the Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a University of California, Humanities Research Institute Fellowship at Irvine. , ,She is the author of Nomadic Identities: The Performance of Citizenship (Minnesota, 1999) and coeditor of Performing Hybridity (Minnesota, 1999).  Other co-edited volumes include City Corps (Journal of Space and Culture), New Hybrid Identities (Women and Performance, 1995) and Bodywork (Women and Performance, 1999).  Joseph has published in After Foucault, Clark University Series, Passage to Manhattan, Bowery Womens Poems, Architectural Design, Problematizing Blackness, Embodied Utopias, Corpus Delecti, Talking Visions, Sportcult, Soul, The Ends of Performance, The Visual Culture Reader, Interventions, New Observations, Praxis, Oxford Literary Review, Late Imperial Culture, African American Review, Movement Research and has been a guest editor for Women and Performance.  Her areas of interest include ecology, environmentalism, and water politics.  She is on the editorial board of XCP: Cross-Cultural Poetics, and a member of the Penny Jones Early Childhood Puppet Theater. Joseph is completing a book on urban citizenship called Metro Lives: Performing the City, contracted by Duke University Press.