Alessandra Williams is an assistant professor of dance at Rutgers University-New Brunswick. Her fellowships include the Inclusive Excellence Fellowship (University of Wisconsin-Whitewater 2018–19) and Eugene V. Cota-Robles Fellowship (University of California, Los Angeles 2010–14). She has performed in nine of Ananya Dance Theatre company’s productions and is coeditor of Dancing Transnational Feminisms: Ananya Dance Theatre and the Art of Social Justice (University of Washington Press 2022). Her writings can be found in TDR (2022) and her current book project explores queer, African American culture through dances and films by David Roussève/REALITY dance company (Wesleyan University Press 2025).

Publications: Dancing Transnational Feminisms: Ananya Dance Theatre and the Art of Social Justice (University of Washington Press 2022), edited by Ananya Chatterjea, Hui Niu Wilcox, and Alessandra Lebea Williams. “A Radical Practice of Inclusion: Choreographing Race and Gender with Ananya Dance Theatre” (TDR 66, no. 1, March 2022).