Olivia Michiko Gagnon is Assistant Professor in the Department of Theatre & Film at UBC. She is currently completing her first monograph––On Closeness: Archives, Aesthetics, and Forms of Relation––which theorizes closeness as a minoritarian method that moves between the aesthetic and the social. Their writing has appeared in ASAP/Journal, Text & Performance Quarterly, Canadian Theatre Review, emisférica, Syndicate, C Magazine, and Women & Performance: a journal of feminist theory. She has also written for the Vancouver Art Gallery (with Monika Kin Gagnon), the Belkin Gallery, Gallery 44, and the New Museum, and was formerly Managing Editor of HemiPress at the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics in New York City. They received their PhD from the Department of Performance Studies at NYU.