Anjuliet G. Woodruffe
Assistant Professor, Critical Performance Studies
Interests
Anjuliet G. Woodruffe is an Assistant Professor of Critical Performance Studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Her research centers Black feminist performance, Black transnational identity and migration using autoethnography, poetry, and storytelling methodologies to explore themes of affective citizenship, belonging and home.
Dr. Woodruffe has published in top-tier journals including Text and Performance Quarterly, Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies, Departures in Critical Qualitative Research, Cultural Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies, International Review of Qualitative Research, and the Journal of Autoethnography.
In 2026, she co-created and performed L.I.V.E and In Color: Autoethnography, Archive and the Poetics of Black Life, a collaborative poetic autoethnography, at the Marion Kleinau Theatre.
Dr. Woodruffe currently serves on the Editorial Board of Text and Performance Quarterly. She is also the secretary for the Caribbean Communication Caucus of the National Communication Association. Dr. Woodruffe continues to shape the field through peer review, mentorship, and interdisciplinary collaboration.
Education
University of South Florida, Tampa, PhD in Communication Studies
Hofstra University, MA in Rhetoric
Hofstra University, BA in Communication Studies
Courses Taught
Introduction to Rhetoric and Performance Studies
Stories in Motion
Publications
Woodruffe, Anjuliet. (2026). Chaperoning freedom: histopoetics, #hashtag activism and the ongoing struggle for liberation. Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies, 23(3), 271-290.https://doi.org/10.1080/14791420.2026.2686930 .
Woodruffe, Anjuliet. (2026). Soulscaping black feminist performance through homefinding. Text and Performance Quarterly, 1-11. https://doi.org/10.1080/10462937.2026.2652877
Sanders, S.J., Woodruffe, Anjuliet., Oliver, L., McFerguson, M., Durham, A. (2026). Homing performance: a black feminist roundtable. Text and Performance Quarterly, 1-13. https://doi.org/10.1080/10462937.2026.2655323
Woodruffe, Anjuliet. (2024). Home as a space, not a place: Narrating transnational identity. Departures in Critical Qualitative Research,13(4):5-30. https://doi.org/10.1525/dcqr.2024.13.4.5
Woodruffe, Anjuliet. (2022). Conversations with my son: A poetic autoethnography of Black mothering experiences. Cultural Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies, 22(4), 359–365. https://doi.org/10.1177/15327086221087654
Woodruffe, Anjuliet. (2021). Surviving from the margins: A conversation about identity with James Baldwin. International Review of Qualitative Research, 13(4), 457-475. https://doi.org/10.1177/1940844720943511
Awards
Top Paper in Ethnography (National Communication Association, 2022, 2023).
John T. Warren Award (National Communication Association, Ethnography Division)
Donald P. Cushman Award (National Communication Association)
Book Chapters
Spieldenner, A., Robinson, T., Woodruffe, Anjuliet. (2019). The End of Aids?:A Critical examination of the National HIV/AIDS strategy. In H. Harris (Ed.), Neorace realities in the Obama Era. State University of New York.