The Future Performative: Staging the Body as Failure of the Archive

Authors

  • Donia Mounsef University of Alberta

Author Biography

Donia Mounsef, University of Alberta

Donia Mounsef is Professor of drama and Études théâtrales at the University of Alberta Dept. of Drama and Faculté Saint-Jean. A performance theorist and dramaturge, she is the author of Chair et révolte dans le théâtre de Bernard-Marie Koltès (l’Harmattan, 2005) and the co-editor of “The Transparency of the Text” (Yale French Studies, 2007). She publishes widely on intermediality, performance theory, visual culture, trauma theory, gender and feminist performance, and post-dramatic theatre. Her work appeared in Journal of Dramatic Theory and CriticismYale French StudiesYale Journal of Criticism, Women and Performance Journal, Féminismos, Alt-Theatre, Journal of Global Studies and Contemporary Art, Krypton, et cetera. She is currently finishing a book length study on The Future Performative: Transmediality, Biopolitics, and the Forensic Rhetoric of Loss.

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