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Elías Krell
Assistant Professor (Women's Studies)
Vassar College
Education/Degree:
1 Performance Studies (Northwestern University)
About
Elías Krell joined the faculty of the Women's Studies Program at Vassar College on a postdoctoral fellow through the Consortium for Faculty Diversity in 2014. Krell received a PhD in performance studies and graduate certificate in gender & sexuality studies from Northwestern University in June 2014. They are beginning a tenure-track position in women's studies at Vassar College in Fall 2017.
Current Work
Dr. Krell's current book manuscript centers the singing voice as a sonic lens for the performance practices of contemporary transgender musicians in Canada and the US. They have published in the Queer/Trans special Issue of the Journal of Popular Music Studies (2013), Text & Performance Quarterly (2015), Trans Bodies/Trans Selves (Oxford University Press 2014), and has essays forthcoming in the Oxford Handbook of Voice Studies (2015), and other scholarly journals, encyclopedias, and edited volumes.
Research Area Keyword(s)
Music, performance studies, theater, women's studies