Kate Mattingly

Kate Mattingly teaches courses in dance histories, criticism, and dance studies. She received her doctoral degree from the University of California, Berkeley in Performance Studies with a Designated Emphasis in New Media. In 2019 she was awarded a Dee Grant from the University of Utah to host Dancing Around Race: Whiteness in Higher Education, co-organized with Gerald Casel, Rebecca Chaleff, Kimani Fowlin, and Tria Blu Wakpa. Her current book project, "Set in Motion: Dance Criticism and the Choreographic Apparatus," analyzes how and why critics have played an influential role in shaping aesthetic hierarchies.