Westley Montgomery

Westley Montgomery is a performance theorist who works on trans studies, Black cultural studies, and sound and technology. Montgomery’s current project, tentatively titled Technologies of Transition: Race, Gender, and the Voice in Performance, explores how Black and trans artists use sound technologies to challenge the material conditions of their oppression. Montgomery’s writing can be found in Theatre Journal and Transgender Studies Quarterly. Other scholarly interests include social media and streaming performance, Japanophilia in African American culture, and opera pedagogies and the construction of somatic difference. 

 

Montgomery is also a vocalist and multidisciplinary artist, with a background in opera and experimental performance, and holds a Ph.D. in Performance Studies from Stanford University and Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Music from the University of Michigan.