Ashlyn Baruti

Ashlyn Baruti (she/her) specializes in Native American theatre and global Indigenous performance. She received her PhD in Theatre and Performance Studies from the University of Colorado Boulder in 2024, where her dissertation, Reweaving the Narrative: Native North American Appropriations of Shakespeare, was awarded the Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Dissertation Fellowship by the Center for the Humanities. Following her doctoral studies, she worked at Bucknell University as a Visiting Assistant Professor. Her work centers on constructions of race and performances of Indigeneity and interrogates white possession, land consumption, and Indigenous mobility in North America to spark environmental justice and an ethic of stewardship. Her current book project utilizes performance studies modalities to interrogate Indigenous long-distance walking performances of environmental activism. In her free time, you can find Ashlyn making mud pies with her daughter.

Faculty Mentor: La Donna L. Forsgren, Department of Film, Television, and Theatre