one fell swoop is a writing collective for performance across disciplines.
A collaborative practice between Devon Baur and Elizabeth McQueen, the collective has published in The Methuen Handbook of Gender and Theatre and forthcoming in Theatre Journal, Configurations, and Theatre Research International. They are coeditors, with Sean Metzger, of Sensory Dramaturgy, a forthcoming collection on the senses in performance.
Devon Baur
Devon Baur specializes in smell and performance and is currently an AI fellow in UCLA’s School of Theater, Film, and Television and a lecturer at UCLA and UCSB.
As a humanities scholar, she has been embedded in multiple engineering labs, including Stanford’s Electrical Engineering, and she brings a practice-based background in VR/XR, touring works to Sundance, Tribeca, NASA, and the World Economic Forum in Davos. Her writing has appeared in Theatre Journal and TDR: The Drama Review.
She holds degrees in performance studies from UCLA (PhD), Trinity College Dublin (MPhil), and Aberyswyth University (BA).
Elizabeth McQueen
Elizabeth McQueen specializes in taste and performance and is an assistant professor in the College of Fine Arts at Florida State University. Her research focuses on the circulation of food in performance, from contemporary performance art to large scale entertainment sites. Her writing can be found in Gastronomica, Global Performance Studies, and Theatre Journal. She is coediting Sensory Dramaturgy, a forthcoming collection on the senses in performance.
Her upcoming book project, provisionally titled Tastes of Performance, proposes terroir as a lingering analytic for the anxieties and aesthetics of contemporary consumption, situating funk and petrol as key flavors. She hosts the food studies podcast Esculent.
She holds degrees in performance studies from UCLA (PhD), and the Comparative History of Ideas and Theatre from University of Washington (BA).