Diana Taylor

Who is Diana Taylor?

Diana Taylor is a University Professor and 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 Politics. As a major contributor 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.

She is the recipient of numerous fellowships and book awards: Best Book Award by New England Council on Latin American Studies and Honorable Mention in the Joe E. Callaway Prize for the Best Book on Drama for Theatre of Crisis, and the Outstanding Book award from ATHE and the Kathleen Singer Kovaks Award from the Modern Language Association for The Archive and the Repertoire.

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

Disappearing Acts: Spectacles of Gender and Nationalism in Argentina's 'Dirty War'