• Performance studies
• French language and literature
• Comparative Literature

Professor Garelick is a scholar of performance studies, working in the fields of modern dance, drama, comparative literature, and visual culture. Her first book, Rising Star: Dandyism, Gender, and Performance in the Fin de Siecle (Princeton University Press, 1998), locates the roots of contemporary American media culture in the 19th-century dandyist movement. Her second book, Electric Salome: Loie Fuller's Performance of Modernism (Princeton 2005), is a study of the American modern dancer and early filmmaker Loie Fuller.

Garelick’s current project, Antigone in Vogue: The Theatrical Work of Coco Chanel, examines Chanel’s work as costume designer for such modernist stage artists as Jean Cocteau and Serge Diaghilev. She worked on this book during her sabbatical in 2005-2006, supported in part by the Getty Research Institute of Los Angeles, where she was a Visiting Scholar, and by a Senior Fellowship award from the Dedalus Foundation. Garelick is also one of four contributors to the catalogue for the upcoming Chanel exhibition at the Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum (the exhibition opened in May 2, 2005, catalogue from Yale University Press). Garelick was awarded a Guggenheim fellowship in 2005 to pursue her research on Chanel.

In addition to scholarly articles and reviews, Garelick has written for The New York Times, Australia’s Sydney Morning Herald, and New York Newsday—for which she has served frequently as dance critic. She also lectures on performance both in university settings and at theaters such as New Haven’s Long Wharf and New York’s Lucille Lortel.

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