Tamara Underiner is Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies of the School of Theatre and Film at Arizona State University, where she directs the Ph.D. concentration in Theatre and Performance of the Americas, and teaches in the general areas of theatre history and performance studies. Her most recent work is Contemporary Theatre in Mayan Mexico: Death-Defying Acts (University of Texas Press, 2004); in addition to indigenous theatre and performance, her research focuses on Latin American theatre historiography, U.S. Latina/o theatre and performance, and critical pedagogy.