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Lucille Toth

Lucille Toth

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A professor of French and Francophone studies at The Ohio State University (Newark campus), also affiliated with the Department of Dance, Lucille Toth pursues a dual career as an artist and a scholar. Trained in contemporary dance in France, she works at the intersection of dance, literature, the medical humanities, and gender and migration studies.

She is the author of Danses et pandémies. Du sida à la COVID-19 (Nota Bene, 2022) and co-edited Danse contemporaine et littérature, entre fictions et performances écrites (Centre national de la danse, 2015) and Embodied Narratives in the Health Humanities and Literary Studies (University of Toronto Press, 2025). A choreographer, she founded and directs On Board(hers), a dance project that gives voice to the testimonies of people in migration.

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