Debra Vidali (USA)

Debra Vidali produces hybrid work through words, sounds, bodies, space, observation, images, speculation, and performance modalities. She works as a sociocultural anthropologist, experimental ethnographer, theater-maker, poet, and linguist. Her research and teaching focus on embodied, non-linear, and multisensorial forms of knowledge production, understood through lenses of both craft and epistemological invitations/disruptions. Recent projects explore themes of generational wisdom, ancestral voices, Indigenous sovereignty, civic engagement, media overload, the phenomenology of time, and the frontiers of knowing. Vidali is Director of the Anthropology Theater Lab, Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology, and Affiliated Faculty in the Department of Theater Studies at Emory University.