Background
Petra Kuppers was born April 1, 1968 in a small town in northern-western Germany.
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Petra Kuppers
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She is a Professor of English, Women"s Studies, Theatre and Art and Design, teaching mainly in Performance Studies and Disability Studies, at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and she serves on the faculty of Portuguese Townsend"s Goddard College Master of Fine Arts program in Interdisciplinary Arts. She went on to gain an Master of Arts in Film Studies from the University of Warwick. An Master of Arts in Germanistik, Cultural Anthropology, Theatre, Film and television Studies from the University of Cologne.
And a Doctor of Philosophy in Performance Studies and Feminist Theory from the Falmouth College of Artist
Career
She left Germany when she was 24 and then spent 10 years in Wales, where she learned about disability culture before moving to the United States. She was the first in her immediate family to go to university. She also has a Diploma in Health and Social Welfare Studies from the Open University in the United Kingdom. Kuppers is the Artistic Director of The Olimpias: Performance Research Projects, an artists" collective that creates collaborative, exploratory environments for people with physical, emotional, sensory and cognitive differences to interact with their allies.
Achievements
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Her book about how The Olimpias conducts research through artistic practices, "Disability Culture and Community Performance: Find a Strange and Twisted Shape," won the biennial Sally Banes Award from the American Association for Theatre Research. Kuppers is also the recipient of the President's Award for Art and Activism, Women Caucus for the Arts, awarded at the College Art Association’s National Meeting in New York City, 2015.
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