Danielle Dick McGeough’s current research focuses on how performance is used for collaborative problem solving, community building and social justice work, specifically with regards to issues of waste and sanitation. Her research addressing how the urban poor have agitated for the right to defecate in public was published in Text and Performance Quarterly. In addition to her research on waste and sanitation, Dr. McGeough is interested in how bodies are implicated in various social and cultural practices, as well as how everyday life performances (i.e., routine family storytelling or bathroom practices) maintain, reproduce, and challenge cultural norms. Her other research interests span the topics of adolescent sexuality and desire, critical pedagogy, the relationship between art and science, and gendered/sexed communication.
