J de Leon is the Director of Engagement at NYU's Skirball Center for the Performing Arts, and part-time faculty in NYU’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study. They received a 2016-2017 Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in "Ethical Subjects," as part of the John E. Sawyer Seminar at the Center for Historical Analysis at Rutgers University. They were a 2013-2014 Graduate Research Fellow at NYU's Humanities Initiative, and a 2009-2013 Corrigan Fellow in Performance Studies. They were Managing Director of Women & Performance: a journal of feminist theory from 2010-2011. Prior to arriving in New York, J studied and worked offstage in theater in Los Angeles and was co-founder of the theater company Explosions in Act Two, Inc., which exclusively produced one-act plays.