troizel d.l.

carr
(678) 362-0670 | troizel@nyu.edu | troizel.com

education
New York University In Progress; Projected:
May 2022
Doctor of Philosophy, Performance Studies
Dissertation: the egg: a bio-myth of black trans chaos
Committee: Fred Moten, chair; Alex Vazquez; Malik Gaines

New York University Graduated: May 2017

Master of Art, Performance Studies
Thesis: untitled (how does it feel): on new world aesthetics
Advisors: Alex Vazquez; Malik Gaines

Emory University Graduated: May 2015

Bachelor of Art, Theater Studies, Summa Cum Laude
Minor in Women’s, Gender, & Sexuality Studies
Thesis: Failure in Excess, Desire in Abundance: The Aesthetic Queering of Black
Masculinity and
Performative Utopias
Committee: Michael Evenden, chair; Rizvana Bradley; Janice Akers

teaching / research
New York University, Department of Performance Studies
Adjunct Faculty, Queer Politics and Performance (Undergraduate) – Spring 2020
Research Assistant to Dr. Kay Turner – Fall 2019-Present
Teaching Assistant, Introduction to Performance Studies (Graduate) – Fall 2019
Teaching Assistant, Final Projects (Graduate) – Summer 2019

New Museum of Contemporary Art

Teaching Fellow – June 2018-Present

New York University LGBTQ Student Center

Black Queer & Trans Studies (Undergraduate/Graduate) – Fall 2017 / Spring 2018

performance

CONQUEST! (A Pope L. Crawl) – Greenwich Village / New York City, NY – September

2019
hottentot pluto: red wanting – Amos Eno Gallery / Brooklyn, New York – July 2019
What Are Our Questions? (with Bleue Liverpool and Justin Allen) – Artist Space /
New York, New
York – March 2018
umBhovuzo: The Parable of the Sower (with Nicholas Hlobo for Performa 17) – Harlem
Parish /
New York, New York – November 2017
introducing hottentot pluto. – La Mama Experimental Theatre Club / New York, New
York – June
2017
The Black Public. – Broadway between Waverly Place and West 4th St. / New York, New
York – May
2017
DISPOSED TO ADD (with Jes Fan) – Pioneer Works / Brooklyn, New York – April 2017
(he)lium. – Cloud City / Brooklyn, New York – December 2016
Whisper (series). – Schwartz Performing Arts Center / Atlanta, Georgia – August
2016
#HungerTalk – New Museum / New York, New York – June 2015
APOSTROPHE Troizel – Emory Burlington Road Building, Black Box / Atlanta, Georgia –
March
2015

video

wade. – Atlantic City Beach / Atlantic City, New Jersey – August 2018
i/come/from/a/line/of/coons – My Apartment / Newark, New Jersey – July 2018
xxxtouchxxx – My Apartment / Newark, New Jersey – November 2017
bath//time (collaboration with Isabelle Saldana) – My Bathroom / Atlanta, Georgia –
May 2016

fellowships / scholarships
Global Research Institute Visiting Graduate Student Fellowship (awarded by NYU
Paris) – 2020
Studio Museum in Harlem Museum Education Practicum – 2019
HIV League “Eagle NYC” Scholarship (awarded by HIV League) – 2019
New Museum of Contemporary Art Teaching Fellowship – 2018-Present
Tisch School of the Arts Corrigan Doctoral Fellowship – 2017-Present
Hemispheric Institute for Performance & Politics EMERGENYC Emerging Performers
Program –
2017
Departmental Tuition Scholarship (awarded by Dept. of Performance Studies, Tisch
School of the
Arts) – 2016
Charles E. Shepard Scholarship for Graduate Study (awarded by Emory University) –
2016
Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship – 2014-2015

presentations
ArtsWestchester Presents The Arts of Ballroom: Celebrating Westchester Pride with
NY’s Legendary
House of Comme des Garçons – Westchester, NY – June 2020
Invited to moderate three (3) panels on:
The Art of Walking Runway with Mermaid Garçon & Milan Garçon
The Art of Ballroom Effects Design with Eric Jernigan (PrinceEric) & Egypt Garçon
The Art of Walking Face with DC House Mother Angel Rose Garçon & Emery Garçon

American Philosophical Association: Eastern Division Annual Meeting – Philadelphia,

Pennsylvania
– January 2020
Invited to moderate two (2) book panels on Marquis Bey’s book Them Goon Rules:
Fugitive Essays
on Radical Black Feminism and Amber Jamila Musser’s book Sensual Excess: Queer
Femininity
and Brown Jouissance

Summer Institute in Performance Studies: Transnational Feminisms in Action –

Northwestern
University, Evanston, Illinois – July 2019
Presented a conference paper entitled: “beychella, or on terror”

RespectCon: Understanding Sexual Violence through a Social Justice – Emory

University, Atlanta,
Georgia – April 2019
Presented an interactive presentation entitled: “Masculinity as a Failed Project"
American Studies Association Annual Meeting: States of Emergence – Atlanta, Georgia
– October
2018
Presented a conference paper entitled: “beychella: a lesson on form, citation, and
dispossession”

In Motion: Performance and Unsettling Borders: Graduate Student Conference &

Performance
Festival – Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois – April 2018
Presented a conference paper entitled: “unsettle me: a meditation on sex in the
undercommons”

Salon Series: Part II – New York University, New York, New York – April 2017
Presented a conference paper entitled: “unsettle me: a meditation on sex in the
undercommons”

PRAXIS – New York University, New York, New York – October 2016
Presented a conference paper entitled: “some thots on Beyoncé’s Lemonade: a
meditation”

press/publications
Roxana Saberi, NPR Code Switch, “In NYC, Activism Begins With Lessons In Theater,”
2017:
https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2017/05/31/465130704/in-nyc-activism-
begins-with-
lessons-in-
theater?utm_campaign=storyshare&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social?utm_cam
paign=storyshare&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social

“required reading for black study & abolition: a syllabus for an abolitionista on
the run” in Black
Agenda Report, 2020:
https://www.blackagendareport.com/bar-book-forum-black-study-and-abolition-
0?fbclid=IwAR2M9s3lDwrMFZp9Xw3XSi22z3FBOWhg_uELIVHP_LE7OKj5tq0FtsmTn5w

“attempts at capture: jasmin oya in conversation with troizel d.l. carr” in loose
cornrows, 2020:
https://www.loosecornrows.com/porch/troizel

“the idea of excess” in loose cornrows, 2020:

https://www.loosecornrows.com/beyond/theideaofexcess

community engagement
New York University, NYU LGBTQ Student Center
Doctoral Assistant – June 2017-May 2018

Reconceived and restructured the only social justice education curriculum in the
Center that
educates the NYU community on the oppressions faced by queer and trans people

Created and implemented various programming including Lavender Graduation (a

graduation
ceremony that celebrates the accomplishments of queer and trans students on NYU’s
campus) and
#QueerColoredSex (an all-day sex-positive interactive seminar for queer and trans
students of
color)
New York University, Center for Multicultural Education & Programs
Graduate Assistant, Social Justice Education – August 2016-May 2017

Undertook critical research to assist in the development and facilitation of social

justice curriculum
relating to systems of oppression intended to educate NYU students, faculty, and
staff
Conceived, coordinated, and facilitated a one-day retreat for Queer and Trans
students of Color to
build community and co-create healing space in collaboration with student leaders
and staff from
CMEP and the LGBTQ Student Center

Emory University, Office of Residence Life & Housing

Residence Hall Director, Office of Health Promotion Fellow – May 2015-June 2016

Developed a retreat curriculum called Happiness Boot Camp: Black Ops for black
students
pertaining to concepts of flourishing, anti-racist activism, self-love, and mental
health

Curated professional conference presentations entitled “Dismantling Allyship” and

“Masculinity as a
Failed Project”

honors
J. Ndukaku Amankulor Memorial Award for Academic Excellence – May 2017 – Given to
an
individual who has exhibited dedication to the study concerned with blackness and
the African
Diaspora

Marsha P. Johnson & Sylvia Rivera Change Agent Award – April 2017 – Awarded to an
individual
who is dedicated to advocating for intersectional communities even in the face of
adversity

Grace Lee Boggs / Yuri Kochiyama Community Building Award – April 2017 – Awarded to
an
individual for intersectional community building and engaging collaboratively to
empower
communities and/or create social change

Emory University Campus Life Humanitarian Award – May 2015 – Given to 5 students
University-
wide who have demonstrated unwavering commitment to the communities they choose to
serve

Alice N. Benston Prize – May 2015 – Given to a Theater Studies student who has
shown exceptional
dedication, promise, and intellectual rigor

professional affiliations
African American Intellectual History Society
American Philosophical Association
American Studies Association
National Women’s Studies Association
Popular Culture/American Culture Association
Women and Performance, a journal of feminist theory, Editorial Collective Member