Dr Julia Ritter (USA) MFA, PhD, is a dance artist and scholar whose work is informed by 30 years of training in dance, voice, and theater techniques. She is the recipient of two awards for her research on dance and immersive performance: the 2016 Selma Jeanne Cohen Lecture Award and the 2014 Prix André G. Bourassa from Le Société Québécoise D’Etudes Théâtrales, and three Fulbright fellowships for choreographic research. Her forthcoming book, Tandem Dances: Choreographing Immersive Performance, is under contract with Oxford University Press. As chair of Dance at Rutgers University, Julia’s dedication to interdisciplinary, inclusive collaboration has resulted in partnerships with the Center for Social Justice Education and LGBT Communities, the Center for Women in Arts and Humanities, and the Center for Latino Arts and Culture, amongst others.