Luna Beller-Tadiar (she/they) is a multi-media artist, performer, and a doctoral student interested in kinesthetic cultures, semiotic processes, and queer and decolonial communal practices. She has recently done work on queer Argentine tango semiosis and on the circulation of gesture on TikTok, and is also interested in Filipino postcolonial bodily mimetic labor. Luna makes and performs choreographic work, draws comics, and (sometimes) translates. She holds a BA in Literature from Yale University (2018) and spent two years as a PhD student in Duke’s Graduate Program in Literature before coming to MCC.
Languages: English, Spanish, French, basic Tagalog
Selected Publications
“Queer/Tango/Theory: Dancing the Binary (and Dancing on Out)" (2025) in Dance Research Journal,
"Playing the Instrument of the Body: Trajal Harrell brings The Köln Concert to BAM" (2024) in The Brooklyn Rail
"The Lesbian Allure and Colonial Unconscious of Todd Fields' Tár," (2023) in Another Gaze
Quail University (comic strip) in The Yale Daily News (2015-2018) (archive accessible here)
Yale Journal of Literary Translation (2018) translations of Cristina Peri Rossi's poems
Yale Literary Magazine (two poems)
"The Place of Comparative Literature" (2018) personal essay in the Yale Daily News Magazine
Selected Reflections (2015) in the Yale Dance Theater Journal
"Other Places" (comic essay, 2015) in A Year From Now, eds. Lyra Garcellano and Merv Espina