Brandi Wilkins Catanese, Ph.D. (Assistant Professor) in the Departments of African American Studies and Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies. She earned her Ph.D. in Drama and Humanities at Stanford University in 2004. Her course offerings are usually related to African American dramatic literature and performance studies, although her interests include American popular culture, critical race studies, gender and sexuality studies, film, and visual arts. Published work includes an essay on George C. Wolfe’s The Colored Museum, and forthcoming work addresses racial performativity in cyberspace, performativity and black embodiment, and theater as historiography. Her current book project is an examination of racially transgressive casting practices as representational strategies that enable and disable discursively situated definitions of blackness. In addition to her academic work, Professor Catanese is also an actor and director, having most recently directed I Ain’t Yo Uncle: A New Jack Revisionist Uncle Tom’s Cabin for UC Berkeley’s 2004 Black Theater Workshop.