Lindsey Drury: Bio & CV
Trained as an early modernist, Lindsey Drury is an historian and performance studies scholar who works on dance, colonial history, and the ethnological archive. She holds a PhD from the Freie Universität Berlin and University of Kent-Canterbury and currently works as a Postdoc within Critical Dance Studies at the Freie Universität Berlin, where she researches, teaches, and organizes the Valeska Gert Visiting Professorship program. She is the 2022 Honorable Mention for the Gertrude Lippincott award for best article in the field of dance studies. Recent awards include a research fellowship at the Herzog August Bibliothek, and an Irene H. Chayes Travel Grant. For her postgraduate research, she was awarded an Erasmus Mundus PhD Fellowship (2015-2019), mobility grants from the German Academic Exchange Service / Bundesministerium für Bilding und Forschung (FUBright), and a Graduate Research Fellowship at the University of Utah (2007-2008). Along with Nina Tolksdorf, Drury guest edited a special issue of the journal Interface Critique, “Conversing the Book”. Recent articles and book chapters include “The Circumpolar North, Indigenous Art, and Settler Aesthetics of Remoteness” (2026), “A Historiography of Face, Race, and Interface in Media Theory” (2025), and “Cannibal Choreographies: Anthropology, Anthropophagy, and Modernist Dance in the Americas” (2025). She has been a guest speaker in many contexts, including at the Universität Hamburg, Sorbonne Université, the University of Kentucky, École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS) and Le Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS). She has been a guest researcher at the Warburg Institute and the Bibliothèque interuniversitaire de Santé (Paris).