Clara Wilch

Clara Wilch

Clara Wilch

Clara Wilch is an interdisciplinary scholar who researches how ecology and performance interrelate with an interest in social and material forms of climate change mitigation and adaptation. Her current book project illuminates the climatic influences of “icescapes,” performances that stage encounters between humans and ice, with a focus on twentieth- and twenty-first-century icescapes set in the Inuit co-governed territory of Nunavut, Canada. This project examines artistic practices, natural science research, dogsledding, and political demonstrations and attends to imbricated histories of gender, racialization, economics, and settler colonialism. Through scholarship, teaching, and creative collaborations, she strives to interweave methods and insights from the humanities, arts, and sciences to help reconceive and address vital concerns of environmental and multispecies justice. Her writing has appeared in TDRPerformance ResearchTheatre Journal, and elsewhere. She holds a doctorate in theater and performance studies and a bachelor’s degree in biology.

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