Anthea Kraut

Anthea Kraut is Assistant Professor in the Dance department at the University of California, Riverside, where she teaches courses in dance history and theory. Her articles have been published in Women & Performance: A Journal of Feminist Theory, S&F Online, Theatre Journal, emBODYing Liberation: The Black Body in American Dance, and Theatre Studies. Her book, Choreographing the Folk: The Dance Stagings of Zora Neale Hurston (University of Minnesota Press, fall 2008), recovers the history and traces the influence of Hurston’s presentations of black diasporic folk dance in the 1930s.