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Patrick McKelvey is an Assistant Professor of Theatre Arts at the University of Pittsburgh, specializing in performance studies, theatre history, and disability studies. He holds a PhD and MA from Brown University (2017) and a BA from the University of Texas-Austin (2008). His research focuses on disability culture, queer and feminist studies, and the histories of performance labor. McKelvey’s book Disability Works: Performance After Rehabilitation (2024) explores intersections of disability and performance, while his current projects include Supporting Actors (a history of social services for disabled theatre workers) and Companionable (a queer canine history of collective care).
His awards include the Committee for LGBT History’s Gregory Sprague Prize (2018), the American Society for Theatre Research’s Gerald Kahan Scholar’s Prize (2017), and the American Theatre and Drama Society’s Vera Mowry Roberts Research Award (2017). His research has been supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities, American Philosophical Society, Schlesinger Library, and Historical Society of Pennsylvania.
McKelvey’s work bridges archival research and contemporary performance, emphasizing disability labor, queercrip intersectionality, and the materiality of performance practices. His articles have appeared in Theatre Journal, Theatre Survey, and Queer Dance: Meanings and Makings (Oxford, 2017). He teaches both undergraduate and graduate courses, blending historical analysis with critical theory.
