Wenxuan Xue is a Boston-based interdisciplinary artist, performance curator, and PhD candidate in Theatre and Performance Studies at Tufts University. They teach and research in Asian American and diasporic performance, race/gender/sexuality, and decolonial ecologies. Their dissertation project Ancestral Fabulation: Fierce Femme Spiritual Placemaking and Performance across Asian America, attends to how femme/queer/trans Asian North American artists return to, mythologize, and imagine their diasporic lineage and ancestral spirits through contemporary performance, ritual, and storytelling practices. Their scholarship has been supported by Tufts University Tisch Library and the Center for Black, Brown, and Queer Studies (BBQ+) academic fellowship.

Their artistic practice has been stewarded by New England Foundation for the Arts, CHUANG Stage, Company One, The Orchard Project, The Lark Play Development Center, and ArtsEmerson. Their writing appears or is forthcoming in the Routledge anthology of Applied Theatre and Racial Justice: Radical Imaginings for Just Communities and Tufts University Art Galleries’ “an archive and/or a repertoire” exhibition brochure.