About me: Eli Gale (She/Her) is a Jewish lesbian interdisciplinary artist and early career academic originally from New York State that lives and works in London, England. Gale has a BFA in Theatre and Development from Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec, and an MA in Performance Making from Goldsmiths University of London. Her work and academic background is in performance creation, teaching, and critical performance analysis.

Research:

Gale has begun her MPhil/PhD at the University of Warwick in the Autumn of 2024, at the intersection of Theatre and Performance Studies, Diasporic Jewishness and queer theory. Gale’s work has been heavily influenced and inspired by Judith Butler’s Imitation and Gender Insubordination (Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader, 1993), Irena Klepfisz’sResisting and Surviving America (Nice Jewish Girls : A Lesbian Anthology, 1989), Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection by Julia Kristeva and José Esteban Muñoz’s Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity (2009). Endeavoring to interrogate and dismantle hegemonic constructions of Jewishness, Gale centers her research in Jewish and queer diasporic theatre and live art from London and New York.

Gale is supervised by Dr David Coates and Dr Bryony White