Kate Mattingly is an assistant professor in the Department of Communication and Theatre Arts at Old Dominion University where she teaches graduate and undergraduate courses. Her own undergraduate degree from Princeton University is in the history and theory of architecture. Her MFA in Dance is from New York University, and her doctorate in per­formance studies with a designated emphasis in new media studies is from the University of California, Berkeley. Her writing has been published in the New York Times, Village Voice, Dance and Pointe Magazines, the Washington Post, and the academic journals Performance Research, Mapping Meaning, Dance Chronicle, Convergence, International Journal of Screendance, Dance Research Journal, and the Journal of University Teaching and Learning Practice. Her book about dance criticism, called Shaping Dance Canons, was published by the University Press of Florida in 2023. She co-edited an anthology called Antiracism in Ballet Teaching that will be published by Routledge in 2024.