Publications
“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)