The Media Affects of Political Performance: Unmasking the Real and the Now

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  • William Lewis Texas State University

Author Biography

William Lewis, Texas State University

William W. Lewis is a Lecturer in Directing at Texas State University. He completed a PhD in Theatre and Performance Studies from the University of Colorado Boulder in 2018. He researches the relationship between spectatorship and the social impact of digital technology and communications media in the twenty-first century. His previous writing has appeared in Theatre Topics, Performance Research, New Theatre Quarterly, Theatre Research International, PARtake, and the recently released book New Directions in Teaching Theatre Arts. Since 2016 he has served as the founding co-editor of Partake: The Journal of Performance as Research and later this year will co-edit with Sonali Pahwa a special issue of the International Journal of Performing Arts and Digital Media focusing on the relationship between digital culture, performance, politics, and power in the Global South and Global North.

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