| About
the Faculty
Major Interests:
Latin American and US theatre and performance, performance and politics,
feminist theatre and performance in America.
Selected Works:
The Archive and the Repertoire: Performing Cultural Memory
in the Americas. Durham: Duke University Press, 2003.
El aquivo y el repertório, UFMG Press, Forthcoming
2006.
Disappearing Acts: Spectacles of Gender and Nationalism
in Argentina's 'Dirty War'. Durham: Duke University Press, 1997.
Theatre of Crisis: Drama and Politics in Latin America. Lexington:
University Press of Kentucky, 1991.
Edited Books:
Teorías de Performance (co-edited with Marcela
Fuentes). Mexico: Fondo de Cultura Económica, forthcoming,
2006.
Stages of Conflict: A Reader of Latin American Theatre and
Performance, Ann Arbor: Michigan University Press, forthcoming 2006.
Manual for the Implementation of the International Convention
on Intangible Heritage (co-edited with Lourdes Arizpe). Paris: UNESCO,
forthcoming 2006.
Holy Terrors: Latin American Women Perform (co-edited with
Roselyn Costantino). Durham: Duke University Press, 2003.
Defiant Acts: Four Plays by Diana Raznovich, (co-edited
with Victoria Martinez), Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press. 2002.
The Politics of Motherhood: Activist Voices from Left to
Right (co-editor with Annelise Orleck and Alexis Jetter). Hanover:
University Press of New England, 1997.
Negotiating Performance: Gender, Sexuality and Theatricality in
Latin/o America (co-editor, with Juan Villegas). Durham: Duke University
Press, 1994.
The Representation of Otherness in Chicano and Latin American
Theatre and Film (co-editor, with Juan Villegas). Special Monographic
Issue Gestos, 1991.
En busca de una imagen: Ensayos sobre el teatro de Griselda
Gambaro y José Triana (editor). Ottawa: Girol Books, 1989.
Fernando Arrabal: El arquitecto y el emperador de asiria y Cementerio
de automoviles (editor). Cátedra, Madrid, 1984.
Articles have appeared in Critical Inquiry, PMLA, TDR, Profession,
Theatre Journal, Signs, Performance Arts Journal, MLQ, Latin American
Theatre Review, Review: Literature and Arts in the Americas, among
other journals.
Selected Awards:
John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, 2005-2006.
Modern Language Association Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize for
the best book in Latin American and Spanish Literatures and Culture
for The Archive and the Repertoire, 2004.
Association of Theatre in Higher Education, Outstanding Book Award
for The Archive and the Repertoire, 2004.
Rockefeller Humanities Fellowship. “Cultural Dimensions
of the Mexican Transition” 2003-2004, of the Centro Regional
de Investigaciones
Multidisciplinarias (CRIM), UNAM, Fall, 2003.
New England Council of Latin American Studies (NECLAS) Best Book
Award for Theatre of Crisis: Drama and Politics in Latin America,
1992.
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