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Name
  
Diana Taylor


Role
  
Author

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Education
  
University of Washington (1981)

Awards
  
Guggenheim Fellowship for Humanities, US & Canada

Books
  
The archive and the r, Disappearing acts, Theatre of Crisis: Drama an, Performance, Wenzani: What are You Doin

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Diana Taylor is an American academic. She is a professor of Performance Studies and Spanish at New York University' s Tisch School of the Arts and the founding director of the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics. She is also the president of the Modern Language Association (MLA) in 2017-2018. Her work focuses on Latin American and U.S. theatre and performance, performance and politics, feminist theatre and performance in the Americas, Hemispheric studies, and trauma studies.

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Early life

Diana Taylor graduated from the Universidad de las Américas, A.C. in Mexico, where she earned a bachelor of arts degree in creative writing in 1971, and another degree from Aix-Marseille University in France. She earned a master's degree from the National Autonomous University of Mexico in 1974 and a PhD from the University of Washington in 1981, both of which in comparative literature.

Career

Taylor taught at Dartmouth College from 1982 to 1997. She is a professor of Performance Studies and Spanish at New York University' s Tisch School of the Arts. She is also the founding director of the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics. She became the second vice president of the Modern Language Association in December 2014. She serves as its president from January 2017 to January 2018.

Taylor received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2005. She won the Best Book Award by New England Council on Latin American Studies for Theatre of Crisis, and the Outstanding Book award from the Association of Theatre in Higher Education and the Kathleen Singer Kovaks Award from the Modern Language Association (MLA) for The Archive and the Repertoire.

As an author

  • The Archive and the Repertoire: Performing Cultural Memory in the Americas
  • Theatre of Crisis: Drama and Politics in Latin America
  • Disappearing Acts: Spectacles of Gender and Nationalism in Argentina's 'Dirty War'
  • As an editor

  • Holy Terrors: Latin American Women Perform
  • Defiant Acts: Four Plays by Diana Raznovich
  • Negotiating Performance in Latin/o America: Gender, Sexuality and Theatricality
  • The Politics of Motherhood: Activists from Left to Right.
  • References

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