Honey Crawford is an Assistant Professor of English and Dramatic Literature at New York University. She studies Afro-Brazilian vernacular performance as both a scholar and a practitioner, and she positions women-driven spectacles of black consciousness in the twentieth to twenty-first century against prevalent discourse on the black diaspora and performance studies. Her research privileges embodied knowledge and oral traditions while investigating attempts to capture or contain these forms in literature and text-centric works. Her current book project gives attention to theatrical traditions that indulge in an aesthetic of excess, identifying a preoccupation with the transgressive potential held in performances of black feminine power. Where studies of cultural performance of the black diaspora most commonly address the contributions of black women in terms of preservation, her manuscript troubles the temporal and socio-spatial containment that preservation implies. She contemplates how certain legacies refuse containment and in fact promise to exceed outwardly measured constraints through the notion of overwhelming. Honey earned her MFA in Critical Studies at California Institute of the Arts and her PhD in Theatre Studies at Cornell University.