
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
Biography
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. Nye鈥檚 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 鈥淪cience and Performance.鈥
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.
鈥淭he Commons as Accumulation Strategy: Postgenomic Mutations in Racial Biocapital.鈥 2019. Social Text Vol. 37, No. 2 (139): 1-28. DOI:
鈥淪cience and Performance: Theor(a)trical Physics and Hauntological Relations.鈥 2017. Performance Matters, Vol. 3, No. 2: 1-15. .鈥
鈥淟issa: Using Comics to Shift the Lens of Bioethics.鈥 Global Public Health. Co-author Sherine Hamdy. DOI
鈥淯ntimely Economies of Survival.鈥 2013. Women and Performance: A journal of feminist theory. Vol. 23, No. 2: 268-290.
鈥淐ancer 鈥楶revival鈥 and the Theatrical Fact.鈥 2012. TDR: The Drama Review. Vol. 56, No. 4 (T216): 104鈥120.
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Courses
Future courses may be subject to change.