bio

dan j ruppel (he/him/his) is a performer, a researcher, a translator, and a teacher. He is currently Visiting Assistant Professor of Theatre at Susquehanna University. In all of these roles, he works at the knots between live performance and documentation, looking at how we document our lives, and experience “liveness” through documents. His work takes many forms: scholarly articles, professional coaching sessions, singalongs, dance parties, community dramaturgy, partner acrobatics, web-videos, and sometimes something that looks a lot like “theatre.”

This blog features some documents of performances he’s done in the past and ones he is doing right now – here, with you. Sometimes the two blend into one another. Maybe that’s the best way he can describe his work. He’s happy you came by to be a part of it.

dan j ruppel holds a PhD in Theatre and Performance Studies from Brown University. Performance Studies, and he has taught a wide range of courses in the arts and humanities at Brown, Roger Williams University, and Susquehanna University. Across his courses, he creates collaborative classrooms that help students develop skills of critical analysis and self-reflection, encouraging them to consider how knowledge is created, how arguments are formed, and how they can become insightful participants in this process. In his academic research, Dan interrogates interweaving performances of race, gender, and nation in 16th century French and Francophone festival culture, tracing an archive through books, maps, printed images, and reading bodies. He publishes scholarly work under the name Daniel J. Ruppel. For more about his academic research, please click here (coming soon).

dan j ruppel is also a professional speaking consultant, translator, and a professional editor. He has helped dozens of academics and professionals from around the world tailor their writing and presentation-skills for an English-speaking audience. He has taught classes and given workshops in public speaking and audience-centered communication at Brown University, Wellesley College (Albright Institute), Wheaton College, and Roger Williams University, and coached a diverse set of executives and entrepreneurs from major companies in tech, finance, and industry. To learn more about how Dan can help you become a more confident and effective communicator, or to book a coaching session, please email danjruppel@gmail.com

–dan is always looking for collaborators, critics, collectivists and cookie-bakers.  drop him a line if you like –