Jennifer Tuder, Assistant Professor, St. Cloud State University

Lake Nokomis Community Center
2401 E. Minnehaha Parkway
Minneapolis, MN 55417

Jennifer Tuder explores the role of sexuality in identity through her experiences with sexual “outsiders.” Combining memoir, theory and performance, this presentation confronts personal and cultural fears about sexuality and identity. (This is a reprise of her solo performance at the 2007 Minnesota Fringe Festival.)

Tuder is an Assistant Professor of Performance Studies at St. Cloud State University. She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Theatre from the University of Northern Iowa and earned her Master of Arts degree from Arizona State University with her thesis, “Sadomasochism and Identity: The Terrible Pleasures of the Flesh in Hellraiser.” She also holds a Ph.D. in Speech Communication with an emphasis in Performance Studies from Southern Illinois University. Her dissertation was entitled “Living Through: Performances with Death, Writing and Popular Culture.”

This special program will be preceded by the Annual Elections of the Humanists of Minnesota Board of Directors.