Ben & Brianne @ Home

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Ben & Brianne @ Home Brianne Waychoff (bio) Click for larger view View full resolution Brianne Waychoff. Ben and Brianne @ Home, 2020. Pen and ink. [End Page 273] Click for larger view View full resolution Brianne Waychoff. Ben and Brianne @ Home, 2020. Pen and ink. [End Page 274] Click for larger view View full resolution [End Page 275] Brianne Waychoff Brianne Waychoff, PhD, was associate professor in the Department of Speech, Communication, and Theatre Arts at Borough of Manhattan Community College. She was the founder of the Gender and Women’s Studies AA Program at BMCC, which she coordinated across departments. Brianne’s published articles and creative scholarship appear in Pacific Affairs, Text and Performance Quarterly, Liminalities: A Journal of Performance Studies, and PAJ: Performing Arts Journal. She has served on the Performance Studies National Review Board, as chair of the National Women’s Studies Association Community College Caucus, and on the editorial boards of Text and Performance Quarterly, Liminalities: A Journal of Performance Studies, and Women and Language. Dr. Waychoff’s work used performance as a method for investigating issues of gender justice. She danced with the Joffrey Ballet and trained with Anne Bogart and the SITI Company, Augusto Boal, Goat Island Performance Group, and with a range of practitioners in the Japanese Avant-Dance form butoh. She was a former member of the International WOW Company. Her performance work has been presented at professional venues and festivals throughout the United States and abroad. Additionally, with her background in community organizing and activism, she served on the Faculty Advisory Board for the New York City Alliance Against Sexual Assault. In 2016 she was recognized as a “change-maker” at the inaugural United State of Women Summit.* Footnotes * Dr. Brianne Waychoff passed away on July 25, 2022, from 9/11-related kidney cancer. She was general editor of WSQ, with Dr. Red Washburn, from 2020 until her passing. Dr. Brianne Waychoff was also guest editor of WSQ’s Nonbinary issue, along with Dr. Red Washburn and Dr. JV Fuqua. Copyright © 2023 Brianne Waychoff