Faculty Fellow
Faculty Fellow; Associate Professor, Department of Performance Studies, Tisch School of the Arts
Project: Music and Migrancy: Miami Experiments with Performance (1965-1995)
Alexandra T. Vazquez is Associate Professor in the Department of Performance Studies at New York University where she is also the Director of Graduate Studies. She is the author of Listening in Detail: Performances of Cuban Music (Duke University Press 2013, winner of the American Studies Association’s Lora Romero Book Prize). Before coming to NYU, Vazquez was an Assistant Professor at Princeton University and Postdoctoral Fellow at Yale University. In 2010-2011 she was the recipient of a Woodrow Wilson Career Enhancement Fellowship. Vazquez’s work has been featured in the journals American Quarterly, small axe, Social Text, women and performance, the Journal of Popular Music Studies, and in the edited volumes Nonstop Metropolis: A New York City Atlas, Reggaeton, The Tide Was Always High, and Pop When the World Falls Apart. She is a proud graduate of the New World School of the Arts in Miami, Florida. Vazquez is currently working on two book projects:The Florida Room and Music and Migrancy: Miami Experiments with Performance (1965-1995).