Education

Columbia University (2023–present)

PhD in Theatre and Performance, Department of English and Comparative Literature
Advisor: W.B. Worthen

Harvard University, Graduate School of Design (2021–2023)

Master in Design Studies with Distinction
Advisor: Erika Naginski

Princeton University (2012–2016)

A.B. magna cum laude, Anthropology, Certificate in Theater
Advisors: João Biehl, Carol Greenhouse

Publications

Coming apart, together. differences, 38.2 (forthcoming)

Review of Performing the Queer Past: Public Possessions by Fintan Walsh, Theatre Survey 65, no. 1 (January 2024): 60–62. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0040557424000036.

“A Soft, Sympathetic Touch: Walt Whitman and the Eroticism of Wind,” Venti Journal, Summer 2023, https://www.venti-journal.com/wesley-cornwell.

Presentations

“Stanley McCandless and the Disciplining of Perception,” ASTR (November 7)

“Painting a pharmacopoeia,” CAA (February 15)

“How to garden at the end of the world,” ASTR (November 14-17)

“Cruising the horizon: Muñoz and the metaphors of queer futurity,” Columbia U’s Department of History | November 1

“Of gardens and grief,” Performance Philosophy | May 19

“Coming apart, together,” Center for Research & Study at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts | April 5

“Queer disintegration and the ethics of impersonal intimacy,” ACLA | March 14 2023

“Losing the form, feeling the heat,” PopMeC | September 4

“Secret violets: Derek Jarman on gardening and grieving,” NYU Department of German | April 27

“The Rhythm of Shadows: Anthony McCall and the Cinematic Temporality of Architecture,” GSU Film and Media Studies Conference | February 24 2022

“Blue; or, the queer geography of human limits,” Northwestern Backward Glances Conference | September 30