Carolina San Juan Arts IN Coordinator

I am a fifth year Ph.D. student in the Department of World Arts and Cultures. While my research project focuses on American Vaudeville in the Philippines, my research interests include performing Asian identities in the diaspora, American imperialism from the turn of the 20th century until now, and the theoretical issues surrounding transnational performance.

As an ex- ballroom dance instructor turned performance artist/nascent scholar, my current projects include teaching Tinikling Hip Hop, promoting my performance/activist art spectacle, "The Imperial Mole Project," and papers such as "From Vaudeville to Bodabil: American Imperialism, Race and Gender in Philippine Performance," and "The Other Minstrels: Transnational Imagination in the Myth of David Fagan." I am fond of saying that performances are the passages of peoples' lives.