April Sizemore-Barber

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

Biography

April Sizemore-Barber, 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. She teaches - Ph.D.

An Assistant Professor of the Practice in Women's and Gender Studies at Georgetown University, USA,

april.sizemore.barber@berkeley.edu

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

She has published quite widely on South African theatre and performance and relevant publications include:

April Sizemore-Barber. "Stages of Complicity, Stages of Healing: Two Theatrical Responses to South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission." 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) April Sizemore-Barber. "A Queer Transition: Whiteness in the Prismatic, Post-Apartheid Drag Performances of Pieter-Dirk Uys and Steven Cohen." Theatre Journal, 68, 2 (2016)

April Sizemore-Barber. "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),