Education

PhD in Theatre and Performance | Department of English and Comparative Literature

Columbia University | Graduate School of Arts and Sciences

2029 (exp)

Harvard University | Graduate School of Design

2023

Masters in Design Studies with Distinction

Princeton University

A.B. magna cum laude in Anthropology, Certificate in Theatre

2016

Publications

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

2024

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

Presentations

“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

2024

“A Leap from the Wings,” ASTR | November 7
How to See in a New Light: Technology, Pedagogy, and the Emergency of Lighting Design,” CUNY | October 30
“Painting a pharmacopoeia,” CAA | February 12–15

2025

“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