Lucille Toth

Lucille Toth is an Associate Professor of French & Francophone Studies at The Ohio State University Newark campus, affiliated with the Ohio State Dance department. She holds a PhD from the University of Southern California and an MA from the University of Montreal. Her work bridges scholarship and artistic practice, focusing on interdisciplinary postcolonial feminist performance.

Research interests include dance studies, medical humanities, migration studies, gender, and sexuality. Notable publications include Danses et pandémies (2022) and the upcoming Embodying Narratives in the Health Humanities (2025). She co-founded the On Board(hers) project, supported by grants like the Coca Cola Critical Difference for Women Grant, which uses dance to amplify migration testimonies.

Her choreographic career includes collaborations with Laura Larson’s City of Incurable Women (2017–2020) and the 2019 TEDx talk Yes she has an accent. Why don’t you?. Awards/grants highlight her contributions to arts and humanities, including OSU outreach support. Advising and grants sections remain pending explicit listings.

Labs/teams include On Board(hers), a transdisciplinary platform addressing migration narratives through performance. Current work emphasizes health humanities, decolonizing dance practices, and feminist artistic methodologies.