Denise Stoklos: The Politics of Decipherability

Diana Taylor is Professor and Chair of Performance Studies at Tisch School of the Arts/NYU. She is the author of Theatre of Crisis: Drama and Politics in Latin America (University Press of Kentucky, 1991), which won the Best Book Award givenby the New England Council on Latin American Studies and Honorable Mention inthe Joe E. Callaway Prize for the Best Book on Drama, and of Disappearing Acts:Spectacles of Gender and Nationalism in Argentina's “Dirty War” (Duke University Press, 1997). She has edited five volumes of critical essays on Latin American, Latino, and Spanish playwrights, including a bilingual edition of Defiant Acts: Four Plays by Diana Raznovich, with Victoria Martinez (forthcoming, Bucknell University Press). Her articles on Latin American and Latino performance have appeared in TDR, Theatre Journal, Performing Arts Journal, Latin American Theatre Review, Estreno, Gestos, and other scholarly journals. She has directed and participatedin staging Latin American and Latino theatre in Mexico and the United States.