Rebekah Kowal
Associate Professor
Graduate Program Director & Advisor
Honors Advisor
College of Liberal Arts & Sciences Dean's Scholar
Rebekah Kowal teaches dance history and theory at the University of Iowa. After completing a B.A. in English at Barnard College/Columbia University, she danced in New York City with Pat Cremmins (Wyoming dance company), Molly Rabinowitz, Bryan Hayes and Heidi Henderson. She holds a Ph.D. in American Studies from New York University and a C.M.A. from the Laban/Bartenieff Institute in New York City.
Prior to joining the faculty at Iowa she held a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in Performance Studies at Haverford College and a Mellon Regional Fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania Humanities Forum. She has published articles in TDR (The Journal of Performance Studies) and The Returns of Alwin Nikolais: Bodies, Boundaries and the Dance Canon, edited by Randy Martin and Claudia Gitelman, forthcoming fall 2007 by Wesleyan University Press. Book Reviews Editor for Dance Research Journal since 2002, she serves on the Editorial Board of the Congress on Research in Dance (CORD). Currently she is working on a book-length project on the cultural politics of postwar modern dance to be published by Wesleyan University Press.
Recent Publications:
Kowal, Rebekah J.
"Staging the Greensboro Sit-Ins"
TDR: The Drama Review - Volume 48, Number 4 (T 184), Winter 2004, pp.135-154.
Kowal, Rebekah J.
"Alwin Nikolais' Queer Objectivity" in The Returns of Alwin Nikolais:
Bodies, Boundaries and the Dance Canon, Claudia Gitelman, ed.; Randy Martin,ed.
Phone: (319) 335-2180
Fax: (319) 335-3246
rebekah-kowal@uiowa.edu
