troizel xx

Adjunct Assistant Professor

troizel (troizel/she/we) is black + trans + alive and the queerness of this fact means more than these words can express. a thinker + doer, she received her BA in Theater Studies and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (summa cum laude) from Emory University and a MA, MPhil, and PhD in Performance Studies from New York University with a dissertation entitled black performance studies: queer/trans experiments. her art + writings have appeared in many places, but are available at troizel.com.

  • Founded by inventor, industrialist and philanthropist Peter Cooper in 1859, The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art offers education in art, architecture and engineering, as well as courses in the humanities and social sciences.

  • “My feelings, my desires, my hopes, embrace humanity throughout the world,” Peter Cooper proclaimed in a speech in 1853. He looked forward to a time when, “knowledge shall cover the earth as waters cover the great deep.”

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  • Peter Cooper wanted his graduates to acquire the technical mastery and entrepreneurial skills, enrich their intellects and spark their creativity, and develop a sense of social justice that would translate into action.