Kanta Kochhar-Lindgren
Associate Professor
B.A., Psychology, Antioch University
M.A.L.S., Literature and movement, Wesleyan University
M.F.A., Dance, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Ph.D., Performance Studies, New York University
Office: UW2 - 330
Phone: 425.352.3491
Email: kkochhar@uwb.edu
Mailing: 358511, 11136 NE 180th Street, Bothell, WA 98011-1713
Teaching
In the classroom I see learning as a dynamic process that can emerge through attention to group process, the kinesthetic dimension, the development of critical and creative thinking, and the critique of culture. The classroom often acts as an artistic space that generates new social forms and ideas.
Recent Courses Taught
BLS 318 Performance, Community, Identity and Everyday Life ...
BLS 322 Topics in Performance Studies: Garbage as Art
BIS 450 Performance and Healing
Research/Scholarship
My critical work spans a range of topics, including art as a site of research, transnational performance forms, disability issues, and ways to increase access to theater. As Director of the UWB student group, the Empty Suitcase Theater Company, I am working on the 100 Hands Project and a series of community based performance projects on health and diversity, as well as on my own solo performance and digital arts work called "memory lines 1: the hearing trumpet" and "memory lines 2: mediated beings," "Scratching through the Memory Lines," and "Soundscaping the Land." In summary, my work revolves around developing new spaces of artistic, pedagogical, and scholarly collaboration. I am particularly committed to performance as a set of translational practices that engage us across the senses, media, and diverse communities both locally and globally.
Selected Publications
Books
- New Formations of Cultural Studies: Collaboration, Practice, Research. (Editor, with Bruce Burgett and Miriam Bartha) A collection of writings by and conversations with Cultural Studies Praxis Collective invited speakers Pam Korza, Randy Martin, Ien Ang, E. Patrick Johnson, and Sonja Kuftinec. (in progress)
- Hearing Difference: The Third Ear in Experimental, Deaf and Multicultural Theater. Washington, DC: Gallaudet University Press, May 2006.
- The Exquisite Corpse: Collaboration, Creativity, and the World's Most Popular Parlor Game. Lead editor (with Davis Schneiderman and Tom Denliger), University of Nebraska Press (forthcoming, Fall 2009).
Articles
- "Traces and Mappings: Revising Identity through Performance," Postcolonialism and Education: ed Derek Mulenga. New York: Palgrave MacMillan. (Forthcoming)
- "Performing Blackness: Transversal Diasporas Crisscrossing the Atlantic," Performance Research International, December 2007.
- "Disability," American Studies Keywords, Eds. Bruce Burgett and Glenn Hendler. New York: NYU Press, 2007.
- "Hearing Difference across Theaters," Theater Journal. October 2006: 417-436.
- "At the Edge of Hearing: The Third Ear and the Performance of Difference," Aural Cultures, Ed. Jim Drobnik, Toronto: XYZ Books, 2004.
- "Towards a Communal Body of Art: the Exquisite Corpse and Augusto Boal's Theater,"Angelaki: Journal of Theoretical Humanities-Special Issue on Aesthetics, Ed. Gary Banham. Spring 2002: 217-225.
- "Kabuki, Bharata Natyam, and the National Theater of the Deaf," Journal of American Drama and Theater, Spring 2002: 35-43.
- "Between Two Worlds: The Emerging Aesthetic of the National Theater of the Deaf,"Peering Behind the Curtain. Eds. Kimball King and Tom McFahy. New York: Routledge, 2002.
Current Administrative Activities
- Facilitator: Masters of Arts in Cultural Studies (2007-to present)
- Co-director (with Bruce Burgett): Cultural Studies Praxis Collective and Placing the Humanities (2004-2008)
- Founding Director of the UWB Empty Suitcase Theater Company (2003-to present)
Other Selected Accomplishments
- Performance: "Scratching Across the Memory Lines," Initiation Festival, Singapore, Nov 23, 2007.
- Project Director for the First Disability and Deaf Arts Fest at UW (May 2007)
- Project Director for Sci-Arts Eco-Culture Conference (2003-2005; Conference held May 2005)