In 2023/2024, TAPS Alums produced a number of groundbreaking books in the field. This event celebrates the publication of Gigi Otálvaro’s Erotic Resistance: The Struggle for the Soul of San Francisco (University of California Press), Kellen Hoxworth’s Transoceanic Blackface: Empire, Race, Performance (Northwestern University Press), Sukanya Chakrabarti’s In-Between Worlds: Performing [as] Bauls in an Age of Extremism (Routledge), and Kari Barclay’s Directing Desire: Intimacy Choreography and Consent in the Twenty-First Century.

Moderated by TAPS Professor Samer Al-Saber, the authors will describe their books and share their remarkable contributions to the field, demonstrating the breadth of their scholarship and the constantly expanding borders of Theater and Performance Studies. The presentations are followed by a Q&A with the authors.

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