Rebecca Wetzel graduated in 2018 with a bachelors in French and again in 2019 with her masters from Miami University. She continued on to become a Dean’s Doctoral Fellow at the University of Kansas and received her Ph.D. in 2024. In her dissertation “Montaigne’s Other Bodies: Onanism, Animals, and Anthrophagy in the Essais,” she studies the changing perception of the human condition during the French Renaissance through the lens of the contemporary European’s understanding of the body. Her focus on the human body continues into Rebecca’s interest in theatre as she studies how the body is used to convey meaning on stage.