Jessica Zeller, PhD, MFA, is an Associate Professor of Dance in the TCU School for Classical & Contemporary Dance, where she teaches courses across the ballet curriculum and in dance histories, theories, and pedagogies. Zeller’s forthcoming book, Humanizing Ballet Pedagogies (Routledge) theorizes ballet pedagogies as critical praxis and considers a range of approaches for equitable teaching in ballet. Resting on the assumption that ballet’s heterogeneity is its greatest strength, the book is about the possibilities that emerge when inquiry supersedes authoritarianism in the ballet class. Her first book, Shapes of American Ballet: Teachers and Training before Balanchine (Oxford University Press, 2016), unearths the teachings of lesser-known European and Russian ballet pedagogues and situates them in the contexts of early twentieth century American Capitalism. Zeller’s most recent work appears in the anthologies (Re:)Claiming Ballet (Intellect, 2021) and Hybrid Teaching: Pedagogy, People, Politics (Hybrid Pedagogy, 2021). She facilitates pedagogy workshops for faculty, students, and administrators across higher education. She has been an active member of CORPS de Ballet International since 2010.