Katie Brewer Ball (KBB) is Associate Professor of Performance Studies in the Theater Department & affiliated Faculty in 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 the author of The Only Way Out: The Racial & Sexual Performance of Escape (Duke University Press, 2024), editor of Mommy Wound, with artist Vick Quezada, and is currently working on a new project about art criticism, arctic science, and colonialism. In addition to teaching, Brewer Ball curates Adult Contemporary and publishes creative non-fiction.