Alex Knapp is a PhD candidate in Northwestern University’s Interdisciplinary Program in Theatre and Drama. His research interests and pedagogy focus on contemporary performance, materialism(s)/material culture, and aesthetic theory with respect to the environmental humanities, more-than-human and other-than-human relations, and political history, theory, and economy. Alex’s dissertation investigates how artists and activists deal with environmental threats and the creation of the “corpse” aesthetically, philosophically, performatively, and politically to make legible a necropolitics of ecological death. His essay “Breathing Bricks: Nut Brother’s Dust Project and the Politics of Particulate Matter” won the 2021 TDR Student Essay Contest (TDR: The Drama Review, Cambridge University Press).