Amy Swanson (she/her/hers) is Assistant Professor of Dance at ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø. Her research aims to amplify the critical work of artists from formerly colonized locations while fleshing out the transnational entanglements that sustain contemporary dance. Her current book project examines queer aesthetics in contemporary dance in Senegal vis-Ã -vis artists' embeddedness in both local and transnational artistic milieus. Her writing has appeared in Dance Research Journal, Conversations Across the Field of Dance Studies, and Critical African Studies. She is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend (2022) and a Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship (2015). She previously taught at Northwestern University, where she received her M.A. and Ph.D. She holds a B.F.A. in dance from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.