Clara Wilch

Clara Wilch researches how ecology and performance interrelate with a focus on philosophical and creative approaches to understanding and confronting climate change. Her current book project illuminates the climatic influences of performances that stage encounters between humans and tundra, and centers contemporary practices grounded in Inuit Nunaat and the circumpolar Arctic. Her publications illuminate the creation of material and social infrastructures while attending to intertwined histories of environmental change, colonialism, economics, and gender. Before pursuing her doctorate in performance studies, her professional experiences included biological science research and NYC theater-making; through her scholarship and involvement in projects like LENS, she strives to bring together methods and insights from the humanities, arts, and sciences to support environmental justice and reconceive multispecies relations. Her writing has appeared in Performance Research, Theatre Survey, and JADT, and she acted as an assistant editor for Theatre Journal.