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Naomi Bennett is a performance artist, scholar, and educator, and an Assistant Teaching Professor of Honors. Awarded the Lillian Bridwell-Bowles Innovative C-I Teacher Award in 2025, Dr. Bennett incorporates multiple artistic practices into her teaching, including work with graphic notation and visual symbolism, physical movement and performance, and a love of zombie films.

Dr. Bennett’s research and artistic practice is in the creation of interactive performance works that physically engage embodied experience via computer-mediated technology. Through this entanglement of physical and virtual, her work seeks to activate senses of touch, sight, and proprioception through traditionally disembodied mediums. 

Dr. Bennett has a PhD in Communication Studies and Performance Studies with a minor in Women and Gender Studies from Louisiana State University, an MFA in Television, Film, and Theatre Production from California State University, Los Angeles, and a BA in Theater from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She is also a graduate of the Professional Track Circus program at the New England Center for Circus Arts, and has studied clowning, mime, and mask all over the world. 

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