Education

Honors/Organizations

American Philosophical Association, Public Philosophy Committee

Management Team, Experimental Action

Editor, Thinking Cap for SAB at Paris Institute for Critical Thinking

Visiting scholar, Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities, Bard College

Arte Studio Ginestrelle Residency, Assisi (IT)

Alexander Memorial Award, New Mexico Texas Philosophical Society

Houston Arts Alliance, Let Creativity Happen grant recipient

Research/Writing

Joy regularly lectures and presents academic papers on performance and philosophy, with a particular emphasis on Hannah Arendt and other 20^th century female philosophers like Judith Butler and Adriana Cavarero. She has presented at University of Cambridge’s Centre for Research on Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities; University of Brighton’s Centre for Applied Philosophy, Politics and Ethics; University of Edinburgh; New Mexico Texas Philosophical Society; American Political Science Association; American Society of Aesthetics; and the Hannah Arendt Circle. She guest lectures at Texas Woman’s University, University of Houston, and the University of North Texas. She has published a variety of articles on politics and performance including Glasstire, Political Animal Magazine, and This is Tomorrow.

Creative Practice

Joy has been involved in creative practice for nearly thirty years, beginning with dance performance. She studied modern with a former Erick Hawkins company member, participated in a summer intensive with the Joffrey Ballet, and danced for several Texas-based ballet companies. She was also a guest choreographer for two regional ballet companies and was a social dance instructor at University of North Texas.

Joy has since transitioned her creative practice to visual and performance art practices. She uses philosophical, poetic, and community-based tools to address social questions employing a spectrum of media ranging from photography, participation and video to object, installation, movement, and voice. Areas of recent investigation include gentrification, the aging female body, fake news, gun rights, political aesthetics, and political corruption.

Joy’s works have been shown in Brindisi (IT), Chicago, Dallas, Helsinki, Houston, London, Los Angeles, Miami, the Netherlands, New Orleans, New York City, Pittsburgh, Portland, and San Francisco. Joy workshopped with the International Performance Association in conjunction with Venice International Performance Art Week (IT).

jjoyharris@gmail.com