koliviero@ucla.edu

Curriculum Vitae

Dissertation: “Sensational Vulnerabilities: Constructions of Imperiled Personhood, Intimacy and Citizenship in 21st Century Conservative Social Change”

Dissertation Committee:
Professor Juliet Williams
Professor Rachel Lee
Professor Douglas Kellner
Professor Leila Rupp

Fields: Performance Studies, Embodiment, Feminisms, Socio-Legal Theory, Queer Studies, and Memory

Research: How do techniques of performance, memory and embodiment compose our understandings of citizenship, intimacy, life and nation as vulnerable? Analyzing how sensationalism and aesthetics are deployed to gain political and emotional purchase, this research examines the performance iconographies of organized opposition to liberal immigration, queer, and reproductive justice legislation, as articulated by such groups as the Minutemen, the Yes on Proposition 8 coalition, and the Genocide Awareness Project, an anti-abortion group. A deep understanding of conservative activist repertoires will help assess and produce more progressive artistic and political responses to them.

Publications:

“Circling the Globe: International Feminism Reconsidered, 1920-1975” co-written by Ellen Carol Dubois and Katie Oliviero. Women’s Studies International Forum, co-edited by Dubois & Oliviero. 32 Jan-Feb 1 (2009).

“State of the Union: Marriage in the Shadow of Electoral Politics – Conference Comments” by Katie Oliviero with Evangeline Heiliger. UCLA Center for the Study of Women Newsletter. November 2008.