Performance Studies: An Introduction

Performance Studies: An Introduction

<P><STRONG>Richard Schechner </STRONG>is a pioneer of Performance Studies. A scholar, theatre director, editor, and playwright he is University Professor of Performance Studies at the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University and Editor of <EM>TDR: The Journal of</EM> <EM>Performance Studies</EM>. He is the author of <EM>Public Domain</EM> (1969), <EM>Environmental Theater</EM> (1973), <EM>The End of Humanism</EM> (1982), <EM>Performance Theory</EM> (2003, Routledge), <EM>Between Theater and Anthropology </EM>(1985), <EM>The Future</EM> <EM>of Ritual</EM> (1993, Routledge), and <EM>Over, Under, and Around: Essays on Performance and Culture</EM> (2004). His books have been translated into French, Spanish, Korean, Chinese, Japanese, Serbo-Croat, German, Italian, Hungarian, Bulgarian and Polish.  He is the general editor of the Worlds of Performance series published by Routledge and the co-editor of the Enactments series published by Seagull Books.</P> <P><STRONG>Sara Brady</STRONG> is Assistant Professor at Bronx Community College of the City University of New York (CUNY). She is author of <I>Performance, Politics and the War on Terror</I> (2012).</P>