maura nguyễn donohue, Chair of Dance, joined Hunter College Dance as an Assistant Professor in the Fall 2009 and was the Director of the MFA from 2021 - 2026. maura has been making work and facilitating, curating, producing, and leading public conversations in the US, Asia, and Europe for over 30 years. From 99-04, as artistic advisor for Dance Theater Workshop’s Mekong Project, maura facilitated residencies for AAPI and SE Asian artists in the US, Thailand, Cambodia, and Vietnam. maura was 1 of 12 choreographers included in Dance History(s): Imagination as a Form of Study, co-edited by thomas f. defrantz and Annie-B Parson. maura publishes through commissions from arts organizations such as MANCC, Danspace Project, DanceNYC and Gibney Dance, in academic presses such as Scholar & Feminist Online, Dance Studies Association, and Women and Performance, as well as at Culturebot. Ambivalent Selves: The Asian Female Body in American Concert Dance was published in Contemporary Directions in Asian American Dance and excerpts of When You’re Old Enough were in the original (1998) and the 25th anniversary (2023) edition of Watermark: Vietnamese American Poetry and Prose. Photo: Nir Arieli