John Paul Morabito

John Paul Morabito is a leading scholar-artist bridging performance, queer theory, and rhetoric. A Northwestern University professor, his work explores the rhetoricity of the body, queer archives, and the politics of aesthetics. He creates powerful performances that transform fragments of queer history, particularly the legacies of HIV/AIDS, into live, critical encounters. Morabito’s practice erases the line between theory and art, championing embodied knowledge as a vital form of cultural critique and historical transmission.