Scholar • Artist • Organizer • Critic
Luke Williams is a scholar, artist, organizer, and critic of twentieth and twenty-first century Black performance and visual cultures. His work, which spans embodiment, racial capitalism, and the aesthetics of the Black radical imagination, focuses on Black Diasporic art in the Americas and broader Atlantic world. Luke earned his PhD in Modern Thought & Literature at Stanford University. His in-progress manuscript, In the Black: Figures of Racial Capitalism examines the practices of four Black emerging artists in the California Bay Area as they navigate the pressures of racial capitalism in the art market.
Currently, he is an assistant professor in the Department of Theatre and Dance at The University of Texas at Austin.
Events
Upcoming:
8/26 Black Power in Art and Culture
1/13 Teaching TD 375H - BA Honors
Current:
Assistant Professor in the Department of Theatre and Dance at UT Austin
Past:
12/16 in conversation with Samantha Box at the Des Moines Art Center
12/5 Delita Martin campus visit to UT Austin
8/26 Teaching TD 311C - Performance as Public Practice at The University of Texas at Austin