Hampshire College

Jaclyn Pryor, visiting assistant professor of queer studies and public practice, received her B.A. from Washington University in St. Louis and her M.A. and Ph.D. from The University of Texas-Austin.

Her teaching and research focuses on queer theory, the performance of identity, public feelings, time-based arts, trauma and memory, and the politics of citizenship. Her artistic practice includes large-scale performance installations and site work.

Publications include "Passing/Out in Texas: The Challenges of Progressive Pedagogy in Conservative Climates" (Theatre Topics) and "Colleague-Criticism: Performance, Writing, and Queer Collegiality" (Liminalities: A Journal of Performance Studies). Jaclyn was also a contributing writer for the anthology, Experiments in a Jazz Aesthetic: Art, Activism, Academia, and The Austin Project. She is currently adapting her dissertation, Time Slips: Queer Temporalities in Performance After 2001, into a book.

Jaclyn also teaches in the Department of Gender Studies at Mt. Holyoke College.

Recent Courses
CSI-0239: In a Queer Time and Place: Queer Theory and the Politics of Temporality (Spring 2012)
IA-0284: Design, Art, and Technology: Re-thinking Public Places, Re-purposing Everyday Objects, Re-imagining Social Change (January 2012)
IA-0188: Performing Identity: Race/Gender/Sexuality in Theory and Practice (Fall 2011)
Devised Theatre: Creating and Performing Original Performance Material (Spring 2011)