Alexandra Harlig holds a PhD in Dance Studies from The Ohio State University. Her research focuses on popular dance forms in media: the political and economic analysis of their production, circulation, and reception, the movement cultures captured, and the platforms utilized. She teaches multidisciplinary courses that consider a broad range of embodied and mediated experiences together in order to think complexly about race, gender, sexuality, and the ways we come to shape and learn those categories. Her writing has been published in The Oxford Handbook of Dance on the Popular Screen and The International Journal of Screendance, for which she is co-editing a special issue on online dance practices during the COVID-19 pandemic.