The Ohio State University Council of Graduate Students awarded PhD Candidate Alyssa Stover with an Edward J. Ray Travel Award for Scholarship and Service in the amount of $1000. Stover is using the award to fund travel to the Pop Culture Association conference in New Orleans, LA this April 2025, where she'll be presenting a paper titled “Nox Falls and Foxy Noxy: Sampling and Remixing in Neo-Burlesque Performance.”

A 5th year PhD candidate in the Department of Dance with a graduate minor in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Stover holds an MA in Dance Theories and Practices from UNC Greensboro and a BFA, cum laude, in Dance and History from Tulane University. She also holds an RYT 200 hour yoga teaching certification and has extensive experience teaching yoga, ballet, jazz, and contemporary dance to students ages 6-75. Her research focuses on neo-burlesque performance and gender, race, class, and sexuality, alongside interests in pop culture studies, feminist and queer theory. Before coming to Ohio State, she taught dance at Loyola University New Orleans while performing and choreographing in the New Orleans dance community. She has performed as a company member or guest artist with ballet, contemporary, and folk/social dance companies, and has been fortunate enough to be able perform across the United States, as well as Italy, France, Belgium, and the Netherlands. 

Congratulations Alyssa!