Shelby McKelvey-Petro, PhD
@shelbywhippetphd.bsky.social
queer disability animal historian. future Guggenheim recipient. famously has "the hips of a six year old" (i'm 77). the most popular academic whippet account you've never heard of.
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Humbled and thrilled about this upcoming roundtable on *Provoking Religion* at AAR Boston! Can't wait to see and hear from Siobhan Kelly, Wendy Mallette, Drake Konow, Kris J. Trujillo, William Stell, and Sam Catilin -- the provocations start on Monday, 12:30 PM in Hynes Convention Center!
November 13, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Humbled and thrilled about this upcoming roundtable on *Provoking Religion* at AAR Boston! Can't wait to see and hear from Siobhan Kelly, Wendy Mallette, Drake Konow, Kris J. Trujillo, William Stell, and Sam Catilin -- the provocations start on Monday, 12:30 PM in Hynes Convention Center!
This is Shelby erasure
September 27, 2025 at 9:52 PM
This is Shelby erasure
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Playtime With Truvy in Four Acts
September 27, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Playtime With Truvy in Four Acts
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Over the moon to share that Disability Works received the National Communication Association’s Lilla A. Heston Award for Outstanding Scholarship in Interpretation and Performance Studies!
September 18, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Over the moon to share that Disability Works received the National Communication Association’s Lilla A. Heston Award for Outstanding Scholarship in Interpretation and Performance Studies!
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It would seem that I missed an email and Disability Works ALSO won the Book of the Year Award for the National Communication Association’s GLBTQ Communication Studies Division!!!!
September 19, 2025 at 3:00 PM
It would seem that I missed an email and Disability Works ALSO won the Book of the Year Award for the National Communication Association’s GLBTQ Communication Studies Division!!!!
we...really do.
August 7, 2025 at 1:28 PM
we...really do.
are you gay? 👀
July 31, 2025 at 11:10 PM
are you gay? 👀
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Happy to share that "Disability Works" has been shortlisted for the Theatre and Performance Research Association's David Bradby Monograph Prize. Congrats to this stellar group of finalists!
July 28, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Happy to share that "Disability Works" has been shortlisted for the Theatre and Performance Research Association's David Bradby Monograph Prize. Congrats to this stellar group of finalists!
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Review #4 of Disability Works is out in Review: The Journal of Dramaturgy!
"a thoughtful, nuanced, and deeply archival analysis of the intersecting histories of labor, theatre, and disability...Every scholar concerned with even loosely connected topics should have a copy on their bookshelf."
"a thoughtful, nuanced, and deeply archival analysis of the intersecting histories of labor, theatre, and disability...Every scholar concerned with even loosely connected topics should have a copy on their bookshelf."
July 25, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Review #4 of Disability Works is out in Review: The Journal of Dramaturgy!
"a thoughtful, nuanced, and deeply archival analysis of the intersecting histories of labor, theatre, and disability...Every scholar concerned with even loosely connected topics should have a copy on their bookshelf."
"a thoughtful, nuanced, and deeply archival analysis of the intersecting histories of labor, theatre, and disability...Every scholar concerned with even loosely connected topics should have a copy on their bookshelf."
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60% off sale @ NYU Press!
Save on Disability Works and other award-winning titles in the Performance and American Cultures Series (and still more amazing books)!
Use code NYU60 at checkout to get Disability Works for a mere $12.80—free shipping for orders over $40!
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Save on Disability Works and other award-winning titles in the Performance and American Cultures Series (and still more amazing books)!
Use code NYU60 at checkout to get Disability Works for a mere $12.80—free shipping for orders over $40!
nyupress.org/978147982487...
Disability Works
Winner, 2025 C.L.R. James Award, awarded by the Working-Class Studies AssociationShortlisted, 2025 Outstanding Book Award, given by the Association for Theat...
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July 22, 2025 at 1:19 PM
60% off sale @ NYU Press!
Save on Disability Works and other award-winning titles in the Performance and American Cultures Series (and still more amazing books)!
Use code NYU60 at checkout to get Disability Works for a mere $12.80—free shipping for orders over $40!
nyupress.org/978147982487...
Save on Disability Works and other award-winning titles in the Performance and American Cultures Series (and still more amazing books)!
Use code NYU60 at checkout to get Disability Works for a mere $12.80—free shipping for orders over $40!
nyupress.org/978147982487...
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ND American Studies is hiring! We have two searches this year:
July 18, 2025 at 9:23 PM
ND American Studies is hiring! We have two searches this year:
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two jobs in American Studies at Notre Dame! apply apply apply!
ND American Studies is hiring! We have two searches this year:
July 18, 2025 at 9:26 PM
two jobs in American Studies at Notre Dame! apply apply apply!
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Now I get to share that Disability Works is a finalist for the American Theatre and Drama Society John W. Frick Book Award--and in some pretty stellar company!
July 16, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Now I get to share that Disability Works is a finalist for the American Theatre and Drama Society John W. Frick Book Award--and in some pretty stellar company!
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“Disability Works” turns 1 today! I’d like to celebrate by making sure it finds its way into the hands of even more readers. You can help by:
1) Requesting your library purchase a copy (link in bio)
2) Let me know if you assign it (I can zoom in!)
#disability #academicsky #historysky #booksky
1) Requesting your library purchase a copy (link in bio)
2) Let me know if you assign it (I can zoom in!)
#disability #academicsky #historysky #booksky
July 16, 2025 at 12:10 PM
“Disability Works” turns 1 today! I’d like to celebrate by making sure it finds its way into the hands of even more readers. You can help by:
1) Requesting your library purchase a copy (link in bio)
2) Let me know if you assign it (I can zoom in!)
#disability #academicsky #historysky #booksky
1) Requesting your library purchase a copy (link in bio)
2) Let me know if you assign it (I can zoom in!)
#disability #academicsky #historysky #booksky
swoons.
July 7, 2025 at 7:25 PM
swoons.
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Transcription error or Totally Normal voicemail from my mother ?
July 6, 2025 at 11:47 PM
Transcription error or Totally Normal voicemail from my mother ?
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Fire Works are OUT. Disability Works is IN. 30% off with discount code NYUP30
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Disability Works
Winner, 2025 C.L.R. James Award, awarded by the Working-Class Studies AssociationShortlisted, 2025 Outstanding Book Award, given by the Association for Theat...
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July 5, 2025 at 2:48 AM
Fire Works are OUT. Disability Works is IN. 30% off with discount code NYUP30
nyupress.org/978147982487...
nyupress.org/978147982487...
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Today at Half Price Books
July 5, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Today at Half Price Books
are you gay?
July 2, 2025 at 9:07 PM
are you gay?
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Quick announcement -- super thrilled to join NYU Press as a series editor for the North American Religions book series!
I'm honored and humbled to join this series that Laura, Tracy, and David founded and have made so strong, publishing amazing books by *so many* scholars I admire.
I'm honored and humbled to join this series that Laura, Tracy, and David founded and have made so strong, publishing amazing books by *so many* scholars I admire.
June 29, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Quick announcement -- super thrilled to join NYU Press as a series editor for the North American Religions book series!
I'm honored and humbled to join this series that Laura, Tracy, and David founded and have made so strong, publishing amazing books by *so many* scholars I admire.
I'm honored and humbled to join this series that Laura, Tracy, and David founded and have made so strong, publishing amazing books by *so many* scholars I admire.
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Happy to have had the opportunity to write a short piece for Theatre Journal's online edition to supplement my guide dog essay! You get a quick redux of the article as well as some details on how I came to write this!
www.jhuptheatre.org/theatre-jour...
www.jhuptheatre.org/theatre-jour...
Further Notes on Seeing Eye Performance and Collective Care | JHUP Theatre
My essay in the June 2025 issue of Theatre Journal offers a performance history of The Seeing Eye (TSE), a charitable organization founded in the Depression era in order to systematically breed and train German shepherds (and later, other dog breeds) to work as guides for the blind. It was the first organization of its kind in the United States. That by 1990 the organization had trained 10,000 dogs to partner with blind human companions offers one measure of TSE’s success. That the popular appellation “Seeing Eye Dog” would eventually come to stand in for all guide dogs, regardless of provenance, offers another. The idea that such an organization warrants historical analysis perhaps requires little justification. But the suggestion that performance studies offers the best tools to do so may require some elaboration.
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June 24, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Happy to have had the opportunity to write a short piece for Theatre Journal's online edition to supplement my guide dog essay! You get a quick redux of the article as well as some details on how I came to write this!
www.jhuptheatre.org/theatre-jour...
www.jhuptheatre.org/theatre-jour...
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A long shot, but anyone I know in possession of copies of "On The Beam," the newsletter of The Actors' Fund's AIDS Initiative?
AF's papers at NYU only include one issue, from the late 90s.
AF's papers at NYU only include one issue, from the late 90s.
June 23, 2025 at 5:39 PM
A long shot, but anyone I know in possession of copies of "On The Beam," the newsletter of The Actors' Fund's AIDS Initiative?
AF's papers at NYU only include one issue, from the late 90s.
AF's papers at NYU only include one issue, from the late 90s.
delete your account
Preeeeetty sure my sister @shelbywhippetphd.bsky.social is stealing some of my treats. Where do I report this?
June 18, 2025 at 6:44 PM
delete your account