Cogut Institute for the Humanities

Amanda Macedo Macedo is a fourth-year doctoral candidate in the Department of Theatre Arts and Performance Studies. Her research interests encompass cultural geography, transnational feminisms, decolonial thought, visual culture, and sound studies. In her dissertation project tentatively titled “Unraveling Resistance: Aesthetic Interventions in the Face of Imperial Violences,” she critically examines the impacts of imperialism that produce an unjust distribution of death and exploitation towards minoritarian bodies, with a particular focus on contemporary Mexico. Through the lens of aesthetic interventions, she aims to provide a nuanced understanding of how experiences of violence and resilience influence the political realm. By recognizing the body as a site for knowledge production and resistance, she explores practices of radical imagination, subversion, and disruption that challenge established power structures. Prior to her doctoral studies at Brown, she earned an M.A. in communication from the Graduate Program in Political and Social Sciences at Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) and a B.A. in political science and social management from Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana Xochimilco (UAM-X).