Aryn Kelly

Aryn is a PhD candidate who works in the fields of performance studies, U.S. cultural history, and empire studies. Her dissertation project takes dance as a site of knowledge production, considering partnered jazz dance—especially lindy hop—as a discourse of race and nation in the1930s and 1940s. Aryn holds an MA in American Studies from the University of South Florida and a BA in Psychology from the same institution. She also teaches jazz dances to DMV residents with New Columbia Swing.