Biographical note

FAWZIA AFZAL-KHAN is Professor at Montclair State University, New Jersey, USA CHARLOTTE CANNING is Professor of Theatre and Dance at the University of Texas at Austin, USA ELIN DIAMOND is Professor of English at Rutgers University, USA JILL DOLAN holds the Zachary T. Scott Family Chair in Drama in the Department of Theatre and Dance at the University of Texas at Austin, USA BISHNUPRIYA DUTT is Associate Professor in the School of Arts and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India YAEL FEILER teaches at the Department of Theatre Studies, University of Stockholm, Sweden ROBERTA GANDOLFI teaches theories and practices of directing at the University of Ferrara, Italy NOELIA HERNANDO-REAL teaches English and American Literature at La Salle College in Madrid, Spain JULIE HOLLEDGE is Professor of Drama and Director of the Flinders University Drama Centre, Australia ISABEL JUÁREZ ESPINOSA is co- founder of FOMMA (Fortaleza de la Mujer Maya or the Empowerment of Mayan Women), the Mayan Indian women's centre in San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico ASHA PANDE is Head of the Department of Modern European Languages at the University of Rajasthan, Jaipur, India TIINA ROSENERG is Professor in Gender Studies at Lund University, Sweden ELIZABETH SAKELLARIDOU is Professor of Theatre Studies in the Department of English, Aristotle University, Thessaloniki, Greece IRENE SALAMI is Associate Professor at the University of Jos, Nigeria, Africa PEGGY SHAW is anactor, writer and producer JUNG-SOON SHIM is Professor in the English Department, Soongsil University in Seoul, Korea KAREN SHIMAKAWA is an Associate Professor of Performance Studies at New York University, USA KATRIN SIEG is Associate Professor affiliated with the BMW Centre for German and European Studies and the German department at Georgetown University, USA DIANA TAYLOR is Professor of Performance Studies and Spanish at New York University, USA LOIS WEAVER lectures in Contemporary Performance at Queen Mary University of London, UK