Bio
Mary Fogarty is Associate Professor in the Department of Theatre, Dance and Performance at York University, Toronto, Canada. Her recent choreographic work, “SoundCheck,” debuted in 2024, and featured the York Dance Ensemble and singer-songwriter, La Clem. Fogarty recently co-edited The Oxford Handbook of Hip Hop Dance Studies (2022, with Imani Kai Johnson), “Breaking and the Olympics” in Global Hip Hop Studies (2024, with Jason Ng), and “Taking Taylor Seriously” in Contemporary Music Review (2021, with Gina Arnold, featuring scholarly essays about Taylor Swift). Her work appears in That’s the Joint! The Hip Hop Studies Reader (third edition), The Oxford Handbook of Punk Rock, The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Competition, and The Routledge Reader on the Sociology of Music, among other academic publications.
Fogarty is a a co-founder of PoP Moves, and a long-time member of the KeepRockinYou arts collective that organized the Toronto B-Girl Movement. She previously taught at the University of East London.
