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