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About L. Archer Porter

Archer Porter interrogates the social, cultural, and economic life of performance in digital culture. She holds a PhD in Culture and Performance from UCLA and MA in Dance Theories and Practices from UNC-Greensboro. In her first monograph, Homebodies: Performance and Intimacy in the Age of New Media (University of Michigan Press, 2026), Porter examines the politics of everyday media production by amateur performers, grounded in the study of thousands of home dance videos online. Outputs of research have been published in Documenta, Performance Research Journal, communication +1, International Journal of Screendance, Bloomsbury Handbook on Dance and Philosophy, and Etúdes. Porter is Visiting Professor of Digital Humanities at University of Texas at Dallas.

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