Khalid Yaya Long

Khalid Yaya Long earned his PhD in Theatre and Performance Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park. Khalid’s interdisciplinary research interests include American and Black diasporic theatre, drama, and literature through the interdisciplinary lenses of critical race theory, queer theory, feminist/womanist thought, and performance theory. As such, Khalid’s work pays close attention to the intersections of race, class, gender, and sexuality within marginalized and oppressed communities. Khalid has presented his research as several national conferences and has published scholarly essays in Continuum: The Journal of African Diaspora Drama, Theatre and Performance as well as the forthcoming Routledge Companion to African American Theatre and Performance. In addition to his scholarly pursuits, Khalid is a dramaturg and has worked as several major theatres in the Washington, D.C. metro area including Mosaic Theatre, RepStage, and Baltimore’s Center Stage.