Danielle Drees

Dr. Danielle Drees writes about bodies, labor, and politics in literature and the performing arts. She studies how feminist, queer, disabled, and working-class artists have used theater and other aesthetic forms as sites of political experimentation.

Danielle's first book, Change the World Overnight: Sleep as Feminist Performance and Practice, is under contract with the University of Minnesota Press. Her writing appears in Signs, the Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism, Frontiers, Performance Research, Theatre Journal, and the forthcoming Palgrave textbook Teaching Writing in Theatre and Performance Studies. She is a former assistant editor of Synapsis, a health humanities journal.

Along with teaching at Emerson, Danielle participates in experiments in accessible education with the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Teacher Program and The Catherine Project. Her work has been supported by Boston University's Kilachand Honors College; Northeastern University's Program in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies; the Heyman Center for the Humanities; Columbia University's Graduate Writing Studio; and New York University Abu Dhabi.