Alex Knapp

PhD Candidate at Northwestern University.

United States

About

I hold a PhD from Northwestern University’s Interdisciplinary Program in Theatre and Drama. My research interests and pedagogy focus on contemporary performance, materialism(s)/material culture, and aesthetic theory with respect to the environmental humanities, more-than-human and other-than-human relations, and political history, theory, and economy. My essay “Breathing Bricks: Nut Brother’s Dust Project and the Politics of Particulate Matter” won the 2021 TDR Student Essay Contest (TDR: The Drama Review, Cambridge University Press).

Experience

  • Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois, United States)
    • PHD Candidate - Interdisciplinary Program in Theatre and Drama
      2020 - Present · 6 yrs 7 mos

    • Undergraduate Mentor - First Generation Low-Income (FGLI) Mentorship Program
      2023 - 2024 · 1 yr