found: Wikipedia, viewed on October 19, 2021(Gabrielle Civil; American performance artist, poet, and educator; Civil is originally from Detroit, Michigan; from 1991 to 1995 she attended the University of Michigan, from where she graduated with high honors in both Creative writing and Comparative Literature; later Civil attended New York University for both her master's and her doctorate; she received her M.A. in comparative literature in 2000; her dissertation, From Body to Nation: Reading Black Women's Poetry in the United States, Haiti & Canada; her concentrations included Black Feminist Theory; African-American Lite herature; Experimental World Poetry; From 2013 to 2016, she was a tenured associate professor of performance at Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio; as of 2017, she taught as guest faculty in the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado; currently she teaches at the California Institute of the Art)