Stanford Humanities Center
Anna Jayne Kimmel (Assistant Professor, George Washington University) is a performance studies scholar invested in the intersection of legal humanities and dance studies, with particular attention to race/coloniality, francophone histories, and bodily scrutiny. As a dancer, she has performed the works of Ohad Naharin, Trisha Brown, John Jasperse, Francesca Harper, Olivier Tarpaga, and Susan Marshall, amongst others. In addition, Kimmel pursues community-engaged research in carceral studies, fostering collaboration with artists in confinement and serving as a restorative justice facilitator for alternative accountability programs in the DMV area.
Kimmel holds a Ph.D. in Performance Studies from Stanford University and an A.B. from Princeton University. Her scholarship appears in Dance Research Journal, Performance Research, Lateral, The Drama Review (TDR), and The Brooklyn Rail, as well as various edited volumes. Her current book manuscripts, Legal Moves: Choreographies of Race, Law and Empire (Stanford University Press) and Performing Law (co-edited with Peter Goodrich and Bernadette Meyler, Cambridge University Press), are forthcoming. She serves on the board of Performance Studies international and is an Associate Editor for Performance Research. Learn more at: https://corcoran.gwu.edu/anna-kimmel.
