Center for Writing and Learning, Writing Associates
Buck Wanner studies Dance History and completed his Ph.D. in Theatre and Performance at Columbia University. He performs, choreographs, and writes about experimental dance. Current scholarship focuses on dance in New York in the 1990s, institutional histories of dance, and data visualization and mapping as tools for dance research. He has previously edited artist-run publications including Movement Research Performance Journal, Culturebot, and the American Realness catalog READING. Buck also holds a B.A. in Dance and M.A. in Theatre and Performance, Columbia University and an M.A. in Performance Studies from New York University.
Tara Menon is a Ph. D. candidate in Comparative Literature at Yale University and holds a M.A. and M.Phil. from Yale University and a B.A. from Colorado College. She was also awarded a Postdoctoral Writing Fellowship at Ashoka University and an Exchange Scholar at École des hautes études en sciences sociales, Jawaharlal Nehru University, and Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen.
Theresa Lin received her MFA in Fiction from Columbia University, where she was awarded the De Alba Fellowship and taught undergraduate writing. She is currently working on a novel about a woman growing up in mid-century Taiwan. She has previously taught at Fordham University and Rutgers University.
Alexander Verdolini is currently pursuing a Ph.D.at Yale University where he received a Masters in Philosophy in Comparative Literature and also holds a Bachelor of Arts from Brown University.