Olivia Michiko Gagnon is a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for the Humanities at Tufts and a teaching fellow at Harvard University. She holds a PhD and an MA in Performance Studies from New York University. Her current book manuscript explores the emergence of closeness as a feminist and decolonial method of doing history in contemporary art and performance. Her writing appears or will appear in ASAP/Journal, Women & Performance, Canadian Theatre Review, and emisférica.