Eleanor Russell

Bio

Eleanor Russell is a writer and theorist living in Taos, NM. She earned her doctorate from the Interdisciplinary PhD in Theatre and Drama from Northwestern University. Her current book project theorizes the relationship between stand-up comedy audio recordings, sound studies, and the avant-garde. She is a Lecturer in the School of Art and Design at Texas State University.

Contributions

Going Nowhere

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In the summer of 2021, as an unemployed theater and performance studies scholar and mother of a four-year-old with a partner working two full-time jobs to provide for us, I often find myself wishing to escape from my life. Specifically, as my back seizes up and my son requests me to play a third “unboxing Batman toys” Youtube video of the day, I wish to escape my body, to escape my perspective, to escape the pandemic, to escape the everything and the everywhere of the current, long, multi...

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