Education

Columbia University, Graduate School of Arts & Sciences, NY 2017 – present
PhD Candidate, English/ Theatre

Columbia University, Graduate School of Arts & Sciences, NY 2017 – 2020
M.Phil. in English/ Theatre
M.A. in English/ Theatre

Queen’s University, Belfast, UK 2015 – 2016
M.A. in English Literary Studies (Shakespeare/ Renaissance)

Cornell University, College of Arts and Sciences, Ithaca, NY 2008 – 2012
B.A. Major: English; Minor: Theatre

Université Paris 8, Departement Danse, Paris, France, Fall 2011

Honors & Awards

  • Project Associate, The Shakespeare and Dance Project

  • Dean’s Fellow (Columbia)

  • First Class Honors with Distinction/ MA International Scholarship Recipient (QUB)

  • Dean’s List (Cornell)

  • National Society of Collegiate Scholars (Cornell)

  • Sphinxhead Senior Honor Society (Cornell)

Research & Teaching Interests

Global Shakespeare, dance, prison theatre, theories of movement and the body, film studies, performance studies

Papers and Conference Presentations

Critical Stages / Scènes Critiques, Vol. 25 (2022)

Body, Space, & Technology, Vol. 21 (2022)

  • Gilovich-Wave, I., (2022) “‘The Camera Chooses the Star’: Trans-medial Ventriloquism in Punchdrunk’s The Drowned Man”, Body, Space & Technology 21(1). doi: https://doi.org/10.16995/bst.8025

Shakespeare and Dance Project December 2021

Connotations Society for Critical Debate Conference July 2021

  • Paper: “Body of Work: Genre and Gender in Hannah Gadsby’s Nanette”

European Shakespeare Research Association Conference June 2021

  • Paper: “‘Speechless Complainer’: Un(natural) Violence in Dominic Walsh’s Titus Andronicus”

  • Excerpt published for the Shakespeare and Dance Project here.

Shakespeare’s Globe: Globe4Globe Climate Symposium April 2021

  • Paper: “The Pathos of Place in Goran Paskaljevic’s San Zimske Noći”

Société Française Shakespeare Conference January 2020

  • Paper: “‘My Flesh Be Hacked’: Corporeal Conflation in Alan Cumming’s one-man Macbeth.”

  • Ilana Gilovich-Wave, « ‘My Flesh Be Hacked’: Corporeal Conflation in Alan Cumming’s one-man Macbeth », Actes des congrès de la Société française Shakespeare [En ligne], 39 | 2021, mis en ligne le 21 juin 2021, consulté le 08 juillet 2021. URL : http://journals.openedition.org/shakespeare/6104 ; DOI : https://doi.org/10.4000/shakespeare.6104

 British Shakespeare Association Conference June 2018

  • Paper: “Mephisto: Thematics of Duality”

Fondazione Giorgio Cini: The Shylock Project July 2016

  • Paper: “‘A wavering mind’: Interpreting the Chorus in Elizabeth Cary’s The Tragedy of Mariam”

 Queen’s University Belfast Graduate Conference June 2016

  • Paper: “‘I am thy father’s spirit: Echoes of Shakespeare in Contemporary Irish Poetry”

Columbia University 2019 - 2021
Professor of University Writing: General Essay for Columbia undergraduate students

Barnard College 2018 - 2019
Teaching Assistant: Theatrical Traditions in a Global Context (Professor Shayoni Mitra, Fall 2018) and World Dance History (Professor Paul Scolieri, Spring 2019)

Cornell Prison Education Program 2011 - 2012
Teaching Assistant: Traveled weekly to Auburn Maximum Security Prison to assist with university-credited courses in the facility— 19th Century World Literature (2011, Professor Brigitte Fielder) and Shakespearean Performance (2012, Professor Bruce Levitt).

Teaching Experience