Joe Culpepper is a PhD student in Comparative Literature at the University of Toronto. His dissertation is titled Reception and Adaptation: Magic Tricks, Mysteries, Con Games.

He can usually be found working at Robarts library, reading in a collection of rare books or conjuring fire and levitating things at Massey College.

He is excited to be presenting “Experimental Magic Manifesto 2.0″ with Marcin Kedzior at Stanford University on June 28th for PSI 2013.

Joe will also be performing with his fellow Ars Mechanica troupe members in Show and Tell Alexander Bell at the Summerworks Theatre Festival from August 8-18th in Toronto.