Julie Malnig

Julie Malnig is Professor of Dance and Theatre Studies at The Gallatin School of Individualized Study at New York University. A cultural historian of performance, her areas of interest include social and popular dance; the history of popular entertainments; performance art; feminist performance and criticism; and performance writing. She is the author of Dancing Black, Dancing White: Rock ‘n’ Roll, Race, and Youth Culture of the 1950s and Early 1960s (Oxford University Press, May 2023). She is also the author of Dancing Till Dawn: A Century of Exhibition Ballroom Dance (NYU Press, 1995) and the editor of the collection Ballroom, Boogie, Shimmy Sham, Shake: A Social and Popular Dance Reader (University of Illinois Press, 2009). Among her courses at Gallatin are Text and Performance: Approaches to Criticism and Creativity; Of Sylphs, Swans, and Swimmers: Writing About Dance; and Popular Dance and American Cultural Identity. From 1999 to 2003, Professor Malnig served as editor of Dance Research Journal (DRJ), an international publication in dance studies, published by the Dance Studies Association, and she also served as the Editorial Board Chair of DRJ from 2003 to 2006. Professor Malnig is Chair of the Gallatin Interdisciplinary Arts Program. In 2013, she was awarded NYU's Distinguished Teaching Award. For an interesting interview in The Medium about her latest book, Dancing Black, Dancing White, and her work as a writer, please see the following: https://medium.com/authority-magazine/social-impact-authors-how-why-author-julie-malnig-is-helping-to-change-our-world-216d576567b2