Juliet McMains

Who is Juliet McMains?

Juliet E. McMains is a United States dance scholar and instructor, the author of the Glamour Addiction, the first comprehensive study of the United States DanceSport.

Juliet McMains started doing ballroom dancing as a teenager. Eventually she became professional ballroom dancer until she stopped competing in 2003. Her Senior thesis in the college was Tradition and Transgression: Gender Roles in Ballroom Dancing. She earned B.A. in Women's Studies from Harvard University and PhD in dance history and theory at the University of California, Riverside.

As of 2006, she is a teacher of World Dance History, Beginning Salsa and Beginning Tango at the University of Washington, Seattle. Her academic specializations include dance ethnography, social dance history, post-structural theory, cultural studies, and feminist theory.