Catherine M. Young studies the politics of representation, circulation of capital, and discourses of animality in popular entertainments including musicals, vaudeville, and circus. Catherine's essay "The Performance and Politics of Concurrent Temporalities in George C. Wolfe's Shuffle Along" appears in the edited collection Race and Performance After Repitition (Duke, 2020). The collaboratively written chapter, "'I Wanna Be Like You’: Negotiating race, racism and Orientalism in The Jungle Book on stage", is part of the edited collection The Disney Musical on Stage and Screen. Catherine earned her doctorate in Theatre at the CUNY Graduate Center and teaches in the Princeton Writing Program. She is committed to critical pedagogy.