Publications
“An Epistemology of the Automobile: Fun Home, Queer Aging, and Lesbian Narrative Futurity on the Musical Stage”
Walker, Adin. “An Epistemology of the Automobile: Fun Home, Queer Aging, and Lesbian Narrative Futurity on the Musical Stage.” Theatre Journal 78.2 (2026): 163–185. DOI: 10.1353/tj.2026.a993876
Watch an interview for ATHE (Association of Theatre in Higher Education) about the article conducted by Dr. Tarryn Chun here
“Cats at the Edges of Life”
Walker, Adin. “Cats at the edges of life.” Studies in Musical Theatre 19.3 (2025): 162–171. DOI: 10.1386/smt_00206_1
Awarded the Oxford University Press Graduate Student Writing Prize from the International Society for the Study of Musicals
“Letters for a Remembered City: Les 7 Doigts de la Main’s Dear San Francisco”
Walker, Adin. “Letters for a Remembered City: Les 7 Doigts de La Main’s Dear San Francisco.” TDR: The Drama Review 69.2 (2025): 162–171.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1054204325000085
An image from Dear San Francisco is featured as the journal issue’s cover photo.
“The Twenty-First Century” in Milestones in Queer US Theatre
Concluding Chapter for an anthology edited by Dennis Sloan. Available for purchase here
“Adin Walker’s concluding chapter, ‘The Twenty-First Century,’ offers a fitting capstone. Ranging from Tectonic Theater Project’s The Laramie Project to Paula Vogel’s Indecent and Jeremy O. Harris’s Slave Play, Walker writes that queer theatre ‘turn[s] away from precarity and instead toward more life, more love, and just more” (183)–a vision that aptly captures the volume’s forward-looking spirit.”
–Review by Eric Jorgensen for Theatre Journal (2026)
“Shaping Life, Shaping Work: Julio Torres’s Queer Comic Labor”
Walker, Adin. "Shaping Life, Shaping Work: Julio Torres’s Queer Comic Labor." Theatre Topics, vol. 34 no. 2, 2024, p. 143-149. https://dx.doi.org/10.1353/tt.2024.a932206.
Part of a Special Issue on “Comedy and Embodiment”
“Flowers, Concrete, Water: Care and Precarity in Tsai Ming-liang’s I Don’t Want to Sleep Alone (2006).”
Walker, Adin. 2024. “Flowers, Concrete, Water: Care and Precarity in Tsai Ming-liang’s I Don’t Want to Sleep Alone (2006).” New Review of Film and Television Studies 22 (2): 449–68. doi:10.1080/17400309.2024.2360379.
Awarded the Chris Holmlund Graduate Student Writing Prize by the Queer and Trans Caucus of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS)
“Lulu ‘Works the Trapeze’: Producing the Modern, Western Sex/Gender System in Nineteenth-Century Aerial Arts”
Walker, Adin. Lulu “Works the Trapeze”: Producing the Modern, Western Sex/Gender System in Nineteenth-Century Aerial Arts. TSQ 1 November 2023; 10 (3-4): 449–483. doi: https://doi-org.stanford.idm.oclc.org/10.1215/23289252-10900956
Awarded the Gerald Kahan Scholar’s Prize “for the best essay written and published in English in a refereed scholarly journal or edited collection by a newer scholar,” American Society for Theatre Research (ASTR)
Honorable Mention for the Outstanding Article Award, Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE)