April Sizemore-Barber

April Sizemore-Barber () is an American academic and researcher whose interest lies at the intersection of performance studies, gender/queer studies, and African studies.

Biography

An Assistant Professor of the Practice in Women's and Gender Studies at Georgetown University, USA, she has a B.A. from the Department of Theater, Dance and Performance Studies at Oberlin College and a PhD from the University of California-Berkeley.

Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance

Sizemore-Barber has published quite widely on aspects of South African theatre and performance and relevant publications include:

"Stages of Complicity, Stages of Healing: Two Theatrical Responses to South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission." In: Memory, Narrative, Forgiveness: Perspectives on the Unfinished Journeys of the Past, Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2009.

"The Voice of (Which?) Africa: Miriam Makeba in America" (article in Safundi: The Journal of South African and American Studies Vol. 13, Nos. 3-4, July–October 2012, 251–276)

"A Queer Transition: Whiteness in the Prismatic, Post-Apartheid Drag Performances of Pieter-Dirk Uys and Steven Cohen." Theatre Journal, 68, 2 (2016)

"Archival Movements: South Africa's Gay and Lesbian Memory in Action", Safundi: The Journal of Southern African Studies (2017)

Prismatic Performances Queer South Africa and the Fragmentation of the Rainbow Nation (University of Michigan Press, 2020)[1],