Megan Jean HarlowIn my artistic practice as a multi-modal creator, I interweave the roles of scholar, educator, and visionary. With a interdisciplinary background spanning political science, communication, literary studies, and media philosophy, I bring a kaleidoscopic lens to the exploration of identity, embodiment, and sociocultural narratives.
Currently immersed in my Ph.D. in English at George Washington University, my dissertation delves into the potent intersection of motherhood, disability, and gender in contemporary American literature and media through the framework of crip and queer studies. My work examines discourse around corporeality, kinship, and the radical reimagining of normalized scripts. As a globetrotting educator, I've had the privilege of sharing my passion for composition, debate, media criticism, and communication across a diverse array of institutions – from Iraq's Worlds Debate Institute to the hallowed halls of Bard College. Whether lecturing on race and gender representation or coaching students in the rhetorical arts, I strive to catalyze critical perspectives and empower expressive voices. Parallel to this pedagogical path runs my artistic praxis. Through multidisciplinary mediums like performance, writing, curation, and digital media, I activate liminal spaces that challenge conventions and spark dialogue around vital cultural issues. My works invite audiences into visceral, transcendent experiences that destabilize normative scripts of being and forge new, radically inclusive modes of witness and relation. With an insatiable intellectual curiosity, a fervent belief in the transformative power of education, and a creatively subversive spirit, I offer a unique alchemy of insights to forward-thinking organizations. I am a conceptual architect and builder of new narratives – those which center marginalized embodiments and author expansive tomorrows brimming with liberatory possibilities.
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