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Angela J Latham

Angela is an author, artist, and teacher.  Her writings often focus on how women embody, resist, and shape culture through performance. She is the author of Posing a Threat: Flappers, Chorus Girls, and Other Brazen Performers of the American 1920s as well as shorter works that have appeared in Theatre Journal, Streetlight, Contrary, Liminalities, Performance Matters, and several others. Angela was a theatre professor in the Chicago area for many years and holds a PhD in Theatre History from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. 


Angela is a practicing theatre artist. She also creates textile art and fashion that incorporate or repurpose vintage fabrics. She especially enjoys restoring weathered textile beauties of the past and completing projects left unfinished by women of earlier generations. 
 

Angela is from Indiana and now lives in Wisconsin and Texas. 

https://govst.academia.edu/AngelaLatham