Katie Brewer Ball (KBB) is Assistant Professor of Performance Studies in the Theater Department & affiliated Faculty in African American Studies and Feminst, Gender, Sexuality Studies at Wesleyan University where they previously held the Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship at Wesleyan's Center for the Humanities. Brewer Ball earned their PhD in Performance Studies at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. Their research focuses on performance, visual culture, Black and Indigenous aesthetics, feminist theory, queer studies, and psychoanalysis. Brewer Ball is currently working on their first book project, The Only Way Out: The Racial & Sexual Performance of Escape, and conducting research for a new project on art criticism and colonialism. In addition to teaching, Brewer Ball curates Adult Contemporary and publishes creative non-fiction.