Contesting Performance: Global Sites of Research

JON MMCKENZIE is Associate Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA. He is author of Perform or Else: From Discipline to Performance and co-editor of a special issue of the Croatian journal Frakcija on the topic of security, visibility, and civil liberty. Essays and extracts have appeared in The Sage Handbook of Performance Studies, The Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory & Criticism, and Performance: Critical Concepts in Literary and Cultural Studies.

HEIKE ROMS is Lecturer in Performance Studies at Aberystwyth University, UK. Her writing has appeared in Performance Research (for which she is a consultant editor), Inter, Frakcija, Live Art Magazine, Maska, New Welsh Review and Planet and in edited collections such as the Concise Companion to Contemporary British and Irish Drama and Contemporary Theatres in Europe. She co-edited the special issues ‘On Tourism’ and ‘On Archives and Archiving’ for Performance Research.

C. J. W.-L. WEE is Associate Professor of English at the National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He is the author of Culture, Empire, and the Question of Being Modern and The Asian Modern: Culture, Capitalist Development, Singapore, and also the editor of Local Cultures and the ‘New Asia’: The State, Culture, and Capitalism in Southeast Asia. Wee’s writing also has appeared in Critical Inquiry, Public Culture, positions: east asia cultures critique, and The Drama Review, among other journals.