Performance and/as History

She is the author of Theatre of Crisis: Drama and Politics in Latin America (University Press of Kentucky, 1991), Disappearing Acts: Spectacles of Gender and Nationalism in Argentina's ‘Dirty War’ (Duke University Press, 1997), and The Archive and the Repertoire: Performing Cultural Memory in the Americas (Duke University Press, 2003). She has edited and coedited 10 volumes on Latin American performance, notably Stages of Conflict: A Reader of Latin American Theatre and Performance (University of Michigan Press, forthcoming) and Holy Terrors: Latin American Women Perform (Duke University Press, 2004). She coedited the Manual for the Implementation of the International Convention on Intangible Heritage with Lourdes Arizpe, to be published by UNESCO, and received a 2005 Guggenheim Fellowship. She is the founding director of the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics, funded by the Ford, Rockefeller, and Andrew Mellon Foundations.