Brazilian Bodies and Their Choreographies of Identification: Swing Nation

About Cristina F. Rosa

Cristina F. Rosa is a native of Brazil who migrated to the US in 1996. She is currently a full-time faculty lecturer in dance at Tufts University. Her research interests include the intersection of embodiment knowledge production and processes of identification. She has been published in TDR and e-misférica. She previously taught in the US at Reed College the University of California Riverside the Florida State University and the California Institute of the Arts. She has also served as a research fellow at Freie Universität Berlin's International Research Center 'Interweaving Performance Cultures' (Germany 2012-13). She earned her PhD from the University of California Los Angeles.