Petra Kuppers

Petra Kuppers
Kuppers in 2005
Born1968 (age 57–58)
OccupationsProfessor of English, Art and Design, Theatre and Drama, Women's Studies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Known forPerformance artist and disability activist

Petra Kuppers (born 1 April 1968) is a community performance artist and a disability culture activist. She is a professor of English, Women's and Gender Studies, Theater and Dance, and Art and Design, teaching mainly in Performance Studies and Disability Studies, at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and she served on the faculty of Goddard College's MFA program in Interdisciplinary Arts for over a decade until the program ended.