Education
Columbia University
Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Doctor of Philosophy in Theatre and Performance | Department of English and Comparative Literature
Teaching Assistant | “Theatre Traditions in a Global Context” | Shayoni Mitra | Fall 2024
Co-facilitator | Trans and Queer Theory Colloquium | 2024–2025
Co-facilitator | Theatre and Performance Colloquium | 2024-2025
2023 – present
2021 – 2023
Harvard University
Graduate School of Design
Master in Design Studies with Distinction
Writing Services Tutor and Mentor | Frances Loeb Library | 2021–2023
Editor | Edward Eigen | 2022
Teaching Assistant | “The Aperture Analyzed” | Grace La | Spring 2023
Teaching Assistant | “The Spectacle Factor” | Jeffrey Schnapp | Spring 2022
Graduate School of Design Dean’s Merit Scholarship | 2021–2023
Princeton University
2012 – 2016
Bachelor of Arts, magna cum laude | Anthropology, Certificate in Theatre
Louis Sudler Prize in the Arts | 2016
Outstanding work by a junior | 2015
Publications
Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles
“A Soft, Sympathetic Touch: Walt Whitman and the Eroticism of Wind,” Venti Journal, Summer 2023, https://www.venti-journal.com/wesley-cornwell
2023
Academic Book Reviews
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
2024
2025
“How to garden at the end of the world,” ASTR | November 14-17 (Upcoming)
“Cruising the horizon: Muñoz and the metaphors of queer futurity,” Columbia U’s Department of History | November 1 (Upcoming)
“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
Presentations
2024
“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
2023
“Blue; or, the queer geography of human limits,” Northwestern Backward Glances Conference | September 30
“On shadows and other queer becomings,” UCLA Q-Grad Conference | May 27
2022
“Painting a pharmacopoeia,” CAA | February 12–15 (Upcoming)