Uri McMillan

Associate Professor of Performance Studies in the Departments of English and Gender Studies

UCLA

Uri McMillan is an Associate Professor of Performance Studies in the Departments of English and Gender Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is the author of Embodied Avatars: Genealogies of Black Feminist Art and Performance (NYU Press, 2015), the first cultural history of Black women’s performance art in the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries. This monograph was the winner of three prestigious book prizes, the William Sanders Scarborough Prize from the Modern Language Association (MLA), the Barnard Hewitt Award for Outstanding Research in Theater History, and the Errol Hill Prize for Outstanding Research in African-American theater/drama, both from the American Society for Theatre Research (ASTR). In addition, he has published essays in Women & Performance: a journal of feminist theory, GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, and ASAP/Journal and articles on Black diasporic artistic production in museum/gallery-based publications for the Studio Museum in Harlem, Aperture Foundation, MCA Chicago, and the Brooklyn Museum.