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I teach courses on Latin American and Latinx theatre and performance. I am the author of Teatro y Cultura de Masas: Encuentros y Debates (México: Editorial Escenología, 2010) and Freak Performances: Dissidence in Latin American Theatre (University of Michigan Press, 2018), which considers the significance of theatrical practices that use the "freak" as a medium to explore the continuing effects of colonialism on Latin American identity. I am also the co-editor of Theatre and Cartographies of Power: Repositioning the Latina/o Americas (Southern Illinois UP, 2018); Fifty Key Figures in Latinx and Latin American Theatre (Routledge, 2022); and Monsters in Performance: Essays on the Aesthetics of Disqualification (Routledge, 2022). I have published articles in several journals, including GESTOS , Latin American Theatre Review , Letras Femeninas , Paso de gato , Chasquí , Cuadernos de literatura , Theatre Topics , and Theatre Journal . In addition, I work as a professional dramaturg and am a company member of Mexico's famed Teatro de Ciertos Habitantes.
Books:
Teatro y Cultura de Masas: Encuentros y Debates . México: Escenología, 2010.
Freak Performances: Dissidence in Latin American Theatre . Forthcoming, University of Michigan Press, November 2018.
Edited Volumes:
With Jimmy Noriega, eds. Theatre and Cartographies of Power: Repositioning the Latina/o Americas . Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 2018.
With Sara Muñoz, eds. Special Issue of Hispanic Issues Online: Freakish Encounters: Constructions of the Freak in Hispanic Cultures . Forthcoming, Spring 2018.
With Paola Hernández, eds. Fifty Key Figures in Latinx and Latin American Theatre . London: Routledge, 2022.
With Michael Chemers, eds. Monsters in Performance: Essays on the Aesthetics of Social Disqualification . London: Routledge, 2022.
Articles:
"¿Dónde está el paraíso?: Este cuerpo mío de Mariana Villegas y el afecto corporal." Religación 8.35 (January-March 2023): https://revista.religacion.com/index.php/religacion/issue/view/36 .
"Neoliberal Transactions: Stating Prostitution in the Mexican Nation." Theatre Journal 74 (2022): 129-49.
"The Projection of the Self in Latin American Performance Art." Latin American Literature in Transition. Volume V: 1980-2017 . Debra Castillo and Mónica Szurmuk, eds. Cambridge: Cambridge UP: 2022.
"Los circuitos de la invisibilidad. Performance, violencia y sexualidad." Perspectivas políticas de la escena latinoamericana. Diálogos en tiempo presente . Eds. Lola Proaño-Gómez and Lorena Verzero. Buenos Aires/Los Angeles: Argus-a Artes y Humanidades, 2017. 135-148.
"Theatre and Mass Culture: Pedagogical Tools for Stimulating Critical Thinking." Latin American Theatre Review 50.1 (Fall 2016): 191-204.
"Circuits of Invisibility: Performance, Violence, and Sexuality" Lateral, Journal of the Cultural Studies Association . (5.2, Fall 2016).
"Desesperanza en el porvenir: Reflexiones sobre la puesta en escena de Amores de Cantina de Juan Radrigán." Chasqui: Revista de literatura latinoamericana 45.2 (November 2016): 150-166.
With Claudio Valdés Kuri. "Between Pen and Sweat: An Account of an Experience between a Director and a Dramaturg" Theatre Topics 26.1 (March 2016): 131-40.
"Teatro Latino en los Estados Unidos: La estética teatral de Migdalia Cruz." Cuadernos de Literatura 37 (January-June 2015).
"Vida del proyecto." Monstruos y prodigios. La historia de los castrati: Recuento de un proyecto teatral inclasificable . Ed. Leonel Sagahón. México: CONACULTA (2014). 45-57.
"Una apuesta por el teatro." Revista Paso de Gato 10.51 (2012): 86-88.
"Transgresiones femeninas o cómo Jesusa Rodríguez encontró el cuerpo de Sor Juana." Revista Letras Femeninas 38.1 (2012): 55-69.
"Una máquina teatral: Forma e identidad en el teatro de Migdalia Cruz." Latin America Theatre Review 43.1 (2009): 103-120.
"Una cuestión de gustos: hacia una crítica teatral de la ética del consumo en Misa en Los Pinos de Jesusa Rodríguez." KARPA: Dissident Theatricalities, Visual Arts, and Culture . (January 2009). Online: < http://www.calstatela.edu/misc/karpa/Karpa2.1/Site%20Folder/index.html >.
Dramaturg. El ultimo sueño de Frida y Diego , by Gabriela Lena Frank and Nilo Cruz. Directed by Lorena Maza. Commissioned by the San Francisco Opera. San Diego Opera October 5-30, 2022. San Francisco Opera June 13-30, 2022.
Dramaturg. Del mago al loco: una revelación del tarot , by Claudio Valdés Kuri. Claudio Valdés Kuri, director. Teatro de Ciertos Habitantes. Guanajuato, Mexico (Festival Internacional Cervantino October 13-16, 2022); (Museo de San Carlos, 11 February – 2 April 2023).
Dramaturg. La hija de Rapaccini, by Daniel Catán. Lorena Maza, director. Mexico City/San Diego, California (Video production of the opera co-produced between the State of Culiacán and the San Diego Opera, June 2022).
Dramaturg. El gabinete del Maestro Toscano , by Claudio Valdés Kuri. Claudio Valdés Kuri, director. Teatro de Ciertos Habitantes. Mexico City, Mexico (Premiered at Terreno Baldío Arte, March 5-14, 2020).
Dramaturg. Triple Concierto , by Claudio Valdés Kuri and Monica Hoth. Claudio Valdés Kuri, director. Teatro de Ciertos Habitantes, Mexico City, Mexico (Teatro Juan Ruiz de Alarcón, Teatro UNAM, 23 August- 13 October 2019).
Dramaturg. Juana de Arco en la hoguera , by Arthur Honegger based on a poem by Paul Claudel. Claudio Valdés Kuri, director. Teatro de Ciertos Habitantes, Mexico City, Mexico (Sala Nezahualcóyotl, Centro Cultural Universitario, September 2018).
Dramaturg. Quijote, vencedor de sí mismo . Claudio Valdés Kuri, director. Teatro de Ciertos Habitantes, Mexico City, Mexico (Festival Cervantino, Guanajuato, October 2016; Foro Sor Juana, UNAM, October-November 2016; Foro Shakespeare, November-December 2016)
Dramaturg. La vida es sueño . Dirección: Claudio Valdés Kuri. Teatro de Ciertos Habitantes. Teatro El Galeón (Mexico City), 2014.