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Jana Melkumova-Reynolds
Dr Jana Melkumova-Reynolds is an assistant professor in sociology at the London School of Economics and Political Science, where she convenes the M.Sc. in culture and society. She is a cultural theorist whose research straddles together approaches from the social sciences and from the arts and humanities. Her areas of expertise include disability studies, crip theory, time and temporalities, embodiment, material and visual culture. Her work is underpinned by feminist and queer epistemologies and methodologies. She has recently launched Embodied Theory Lab, a platform that brings together crip and non-disabled movement artists, academics and activists to think through theoretical concepts and social, political and cultural idea(l)s in ways that make space for embodied, uncodified, tacit and practice-based knowledges. Using crip communities’ lived experiences as a ‘body of knowledge’, the project aims to conjure socialities, relationalities and shared temporalities premised on interdependence, response-ability and radical care, through a series of movement- and theory-based workshops. Her writing has appeared in Time & Society and Fashion Theory: Journal of Dress, Body and Culture and edited volumes such as Wearable Objects and Curative Things (Palgrave, 2024), Dangerous Bodies (Palgrave, 2023) and Bodies in Flux (Brill, 2019). She is (cautiously) beginning to think of herself as a dancer.
Contact: London School of Economics and Political Science, Houghton Street, London WC2A 2AE, UK.