Patrick McKelvey is an assistant professor at the University of Pittsburgh, where he works at the intersection of performance studies, theater history, queer and feminist disability studies, and the history of work and welfare. Portions of his current book project, “Crip Enterprise: Disability Goes to Work in US Performance,” have appeared in Theatre Journal and Theatre Survey.

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Shoptalk: Overheard at ASA and ASTR 2022
In this special mega edition of Shoptalk, guess which performative utterance was said at which conference.
Shoptalk: Overheard at the Virtual Conference
In this parodic installment of Shoptalk, we salute the year of conferences that have tried to be.
Shoptalk: Overheard at ATHE
Theater theorists, historians, and practitioners gathered in Orlando for this year’s annual meeting of ATHE, the Association for Theatre in Higher …











