Yelena Gluzman

Yelena Gluzman is an interdisciplinary scholar and an experimental theater director and filmmaker. Her work draws on feminist STS, critical disability studies, ethnomethodology and distributed cognition. Her recent projects investigate how "other minds" are staged in laboratory experiments (Cognitive Neuroscience and the Experimental Theater of Other Minds, 2021), and trace the distributed communication ecologies of captioners who transcribe in real time for d/Deaf and Hard-of-hearing students (Stenoforms of Life, in progress). Her publications contribute to discussions on performance as research (PaR) and consider the promises of experimental reflexivity and 'research as theater' (RaT). She is a founding editor at Ugly Duckling Presse, an independent non-profit publisher of poetry, performance, translation and artist books, and founding editor of Emergency Index: An Annual Compendium of Performance Practice, currently in its tenth volume. She is Assistant Professor of Science, Technology, and Society Studies in the Department of Art and Design at the University of Alberta.