Education

PhD (University of Edinburgh)

Biography

Mary Fogarty is a dance scholar whose work bridges popular culture, ethnography, cultural sociology, and performance studies. Her publications include co-editing The Oxford Handbook of Hip Hop Dance Studies (Oxford University Press, 2022) and Movies, Music and Moves: The Sonic World of Dance Films (Equinox, 2016), alongside chapters in leading volumes such as That’s the Joint! The Hip-Hop Studies Reader (third edition) and The Routledge Reader on the Sociology of Music.

She was a visiting scholar at NYU, and has been invited to speak at institutions including the Centre national de la danse (Paris), Casa da Música (Porto), Sadler’s Wells (London), EIF International Festival Encounters (Edinbugh), DanceBase (Edinburgh), Brisbane University (Australia), Anton Bruckner Private University (Linz), the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture (New York), Athens University, and the Glorya Kaufman School of Dance at USC (Los Angeles).

Fogarty has served as President of IASPM-Canada and Chair of PoP Moves Americas, and her expertise on dance, music, and popular culture has been featured in The New York Times, Time Magazine, The Washington Post, and on CBC Radio.