Diana Taylor (professor)

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Diana Taylor is a professor of Performance Studies and Spanish at the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University as well as the founding director of the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politic. As a major contributer to the area of Performance Studies in the Americas, 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.

Taylor is also the author of The Archive and the Repertoire: Performing Cultural Memory in the Americas, Theatre of Crisis: Drama and Politics in Latin America, and Disappearing Acts: Spectacles of Gender and Nationalism in Argentina's 'Dirty War'. She co-edited Holy Terrors: Latin American Women Perform, Defiant Acts: Four Plays by Diana Raznovich, Negotiating Performance in Latin/o America: Gender, Sexuality and Theatricality, and The Politics of Motherhood: Activists from Left to Right.