Raquel Monroe

Raquel Monroe, Ph.D. is an interdisciplinary performance scholar/artist/administrator and mother whose research interests include Black social dance, Black queer feminisms, popular culture, and the efficacy of collaboration to create social change. Monroe’s scholarship appears in journals and anthologies on race, sexuality, dance, and popular culture. Her in process monograph Chi-City Moves: Black Queer Feminist Choreographic Praxis in Chicago employs Black queer feminist choreographic praxis to theorize performances and acts of protest by Black femme choreographers in Chicago during the Black Lives Matter era. Monroe realizes her passion for collaboration as a member of the interdisciplinary arts collective the Propelled Animals. Monroe is currently the Associate Dean of Graduate Education and Academic Affairs and a Professor in Theatre in Dance at the University of Texas, Austin. She formally served as a professor in Dance and Co-Director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at Columbia College Chicago.

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