Ph.D. in Performance Studies with a Certificate in Film Studies, University of California at Berkeley

Heather Warren-Crow is an artist and media theorist whose work considers personhood as a function of human and nonhuman vitalities. Her scholarship is distinctive in its approach to animation studies and its relatively early attention to girliness as an aesthetic in online settings. As an educator, she specializes in supporting interdisciplinary, intermedia, feminist, and practice-based arts research. Dr. Warren-Crow is the winner of two teaching awards as well as the Chancellor's Council Distinguished Research Award, the TTU System's highest honor. She has written three books: Girlhood and the Plastic Image, Young-Girls in Echoland: #Theorizing Tiqqun (co-authored with Andrea Jonsson), and the forthcoming Shakespeare and Nonhuman Intelligence, which presents the Bard as the embattled figure of writing in the age of ChatGPT and other alleged crimes against the human organism. She likes intellectually unruly projects.

As an artist, Dr. Warren-Crow does performance across multiple mediums—video art, experimental film, sound art, body art, event scores, and theatre. Her practice embraces the uncomfortable tension between the predetermined and the spontaneous, especially as that dialectic shapes our understandings of what it means to be a person(corporate, human, or Artificial Intelligence). She often makes work about work: the labor of being heard in our era of communicative capitalism, the effort of doing repetitive tasks best left to automation, the struggle and imperative to let go. These lines of inquiry have led her to some interesting places, such as the lab of biophysicist Sy Redding (where she is the artist-in-residence). Her found footage film reCAPTCHA, described by F3 Film Magazine as an “immersive cognitive disruption conveying trauma and the neglect of a reciprocal human response," won Best Experimental Film from SF Shorts: The San Francisco International Festival of Short Films and Best Experimental Microfilm from the Oregon Experimental Film Festival. She is one of the organizers of CO-OPt, an artist-run gallery and experimental music venue here in Lubbock.

Dr. Warren-Crow is housed in the Talkington College of Visual and Performing Arts's Department of Interdisciplinary Arts and allied with the School of Art, where she serves on the studio art faculty. She is also affiliated faculty in women's and gender studies.