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SanSan Kwan
Faculty

College of Arts and Letters
Department of Theatre Arts and Dance

Office: KH 5103
Phone: 323 343 5127
Fax: 323 343 5567
Email: sskwan@calstatela.edu


TEACHING INTERESTS

SanSan teaches graduate seminars in  performance studies, critical theory, and Asian theater, as well as undergraduate courses in dance studies, performance studies, and Asian American studies.

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RESEARCH

SanSan's research areas include Asian American performance studies, dance studies, and transnationalism. She is co-editor of the anthology Mixing It Up: Multiracial Subjects. Her current book project is titled, Kinesthetic Ethnicity:  Dance, Movement, and City Space in the Chinese Diaspora.

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PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS
Title Date
"Vibrating with Taipei:  Cloud Gate Dance Theatre and National Kinesthesia."  (In Intersections:  Dance, Place, and Identity.  Ed.  Ann Dils, et al.  Dubuque, IA:  Kendall Hunt, 2007.)  2007
Mixing It Up: Multiracial Subjects.  Ed. SanSan Kwan and Kenneth Speirs.  Austin:  Texas UP, 2004.  2004
"Hong Kong In-corporated: Falun Gong and the Choreography of Stillness" (In Performance Research Journal 8.4) Fall 2003
"Scratching the Lotus Blossom Itch" (In Tessera) Winter 2002

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EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND

Ph.D. Performance Studies 2003

  • New York University
    New York, NY

M.A. Performance Studies 1996

  • New York University
    New York, NY

B.A. English 1992

  • UC Berkeley
    Berkeley, CA

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