Coleman Nye
Education
- Ph.D. Theatre and Performance Studies, Brown University, May 2014
- M.A. Anthropology, Brown University, 2010
- B.A. Anthropology and Gender and Sexuality Studies (honors), New York University, 2006
Coleman Nye works at the intersection of feminist science and technology studies, graphic medicine, and performance studies. She co-authored (with Sherine Hamdy) , the debut graphic novel of the ethnoGRAPHIC series at University of Toronto Press which won the 2018 PROSE Award from the Association of American Publishers. She is currently completing a monograph Biological Property: Race, Gender, Genetics which mines the epistemological linkages between genetic understandings of relation and property-based models of inheritance. Nyes work has been published in such journals as Social Text, TDR: The Drama Review, Women and Performance, Global Public Health, and ADA: A journal of gender, new media, and technology. In 2017, she edited a special issue of Performance Matters on Science and Performance.
Publications
Lissa: An Ethnographic Story about Friendship, Medical Promise, and Revolution. 2017. University of Toronto Press. Co-authored with Sherine F. Hamdy. Illustrated by Sarula Bao and Caroline Brewer.
The Commons as Accumulation Strategy: Postgenomic Mutations in Racial Biocapital. 2019. Social Text Vol. 37, No. 2 (139): 1-28. DOI:
Science and Performance: Theor(a)trical Physics and Hauntological Relations. 2017. Performance Matters, Vol. 3, No. 2: 1-15. .
Lissa: Using Comics to Shift the Lens of Bioethics. Global Public Health. Co-author Sherine Hamdy. DOI
Untimely Economies of Survival. 2013. Women and Performance: A journal of feminist theory. Vol. 23, No. 2: 268-290.
Cancer Previval and the Theatrical Fact. 2012. TDR: The Drama Review. Vol. 56, No. 4 (T216): 104120.
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Courses
Fall 2024
Spring 2025
Future courses may be subject to change.