Delilah Rosier (she/her)

PhD Student

Email: delilah.rosier@mail.utoronto.ca

Website:
Social Media:

https://www.instagram.com/janquette/?hl=en

Areas of Interest

• Performance Studies
• Black Feminist Thought
• Affect Theory
• Queer Theory
• Popular Culture
• Performance Art
• Contemporary Art History
• Cultural Criticism
• Media Studies
• Appropriation
• Critical Race Theory
• Autoethnography
• Whiteness
• Blackness
• Humour

Biography

Delilah Rosier is a Toronto based artist and writer.

Program: PhD 2025

Education

MA, Contemporary Art, Design and New Media Art Histories, OCAD University

MA, Theatre and Performance Studies, York University

BFA, Criticism and Curatorial Practice, OCAD University

Dissertation

Supervisor: Robert Diaz & S. Trimble

My proposed research examines how race, gender, and queerness are performed, appropriated, and reclaimed in contested cultural texts and their adaptations. I focus on Gershwin’s opera Porgy and Bess and Daphne du Maurier’s novel Rebecca, drawing on Performance Studies, Black Feminist Thought, Affect Theory, and Queer Theory. Through auto-ethnographic feminist methods, I aim to craft a third narrative that explores appropriation, grief, and survival.

Presentations

2025, Oral Method, Coward, in collaboration with Kiera Boult, Factory Theatre, Toronto.
2024, Trampoline Hall, Impressions. The Garrison, Toronto.
2022, Kiera Boult, Hamilton is My Lady, co-performer. 7A*11D International Festival of Performance Art, The Theatre Centre, Toronto, and Supercrawl, Hamilton.
2021, After AA…Looking for L(e/a)na: Aesthetics, Appropriation, Allyship and Agency. Forest City Gallery, London. In collaboration with Madelyne Beckles.
2019 & 2015, Killjoy’s Kastle: A Lesbian Feminist Haunted House Plummer Park, West Hollywood, Icebox Project Space, Philadelphia. Allyson Mitchell and Deirdre Logue

Selected Works

2024, Centre[3] For Artistic + Social Practice, exhibition essay, Kiera Boult, Hamilton’s My Lady, It’s Kiki’s Hamilton, We’re Just Commuting to it

2023, Xpace Cultural Centre, exhibition essay, James Knott, An Effigy (To the Girl of our Dreams) Beat You to it

2022, Vtape. The Curatorial Incubator, v.18: Learning from the Local. Curatorial essay, What Do You Mean You Don’t Love Me? Or, How To Stop Worrying and Get In the Tub

2021, OCAD U Contemporary Art, Design and New Media Art Histories MA Major Research Paper Chosen Family Values: Examining the Creative Practices of Kiera Boult, Madelyne Beckles, Kalale Dalton-Lutale and Cason Sharpe

2019, Thames Art Gallery, exhibition essay, Madelyne Beckles + Allyson Mitchell, What Motivates Her? Intimacy and Intergenerationally

Honours and Awards