Performing the Radical: India in the 21st Century (Methuen Drama Agitations: Text, Politics and Performances) - Hardcover

Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Ashis Sengupta is Professor of English at the University of North Bengal, India. A recipient of the Olive I. Reddick award (1995), Fulbright American Studies Institute fellowship (2002), Fulbright visiting scholarship (2006) and SASNET guest lecturer grant (2009), he has widely published on American and South Asian theatre in international journals that include Comparative American Studies, Contemporary Theatre Review and Theatre Research International. His edited volumes include Mapping South Asia through Contemporary Theatre (2014) and Islam in Performance (Methuen Drama, 2017). His most recent monograph is Postdramatic Theatre and India (Methuen Drama, 2022). His areas of interest include literary and cultural theory, and theatre and performance studies.

Anja Hartl is Assistant Professor at the Department of English at the University of Innsbruck, Austria. She is the author of Brecht and Post-1990s British Drama: Dialectical Theatre Today and editor of the Methuen Drama Student Edition of The Threepenny Opera. Her research focuses on contemporary British theatre, Victorian fiction and adaptation studies. She co-edits the Methuen Drama Agitations Series.

William C. Boles holds the Hugh F. and Jeannette G. McKean Chair of English at Rollins College, USA. He edited Theater in a Post-Truth World: Text, Performance, and Politics and After In-Yer-Face: Remnants of a Theatrical Revolution and authored The Argumentative Theatre of Joe Penhall, Understanding David Henry Hwang and Mike Bartlett.