Jean Graham-Jones
Fellow
Jean Graham-Jones is Professor of Theatre at the City University of New York's Graduate Center, where she currently serves as head of the PhD Program in Theatre. A specialist in Argentinean theatre and performance as well as an experienced actor, director, and translator, she is the author of Exorcising History: Argentine Theater under Dictatorship, and her many articles have appeared in journals and essay collections in Europe and the Americas. Her English translations of plays by Argentinean dramatists like Lola Arias, Federico León, Ricardo Monti, Rafael Spregelburd, Claudio Tolcachir, and Daniel Veronese have been published, staged, and/or have served as supertitles for international tours. Her current research projects focus on national and transnational performances of such Argentinean "femiconic" figures as Camila O'Gorman, Eva Perón, and the Virgin of Luján; Buenos Aires' traveling theatres; and theatrical and other performed responses to Argentina's socioeconomic crisis. She is a former editor of Theatre Journal.
Jean Graham-Jones is Professor of Theatre at the City University of New York's Graduate Center, where she currently serves as head of the PhD Program in Theatre. A specialist in Argentinean theatre and performance as well as an experienced actor, director, and translator, she is the author of Exorcising History: Argentine Theater under Dictatorship, and her many articles have appeared in journals and essay collections in Europe and the Americas. Her English translations of plays by Argentinean dramatists like Lola Arias, Federico León, Ricardo Monti, Rafael Spregelburd, Claudio Tolcachir, and Daniel Veronese have been published, staged, and/or have served as supertitles for international tours. Her current research projects focus on national and transnational performances of such Argentinean "femiconic" figures as Camila O'Gorman, Eva Perón, and the Virgin of Luján; Buenos Aires' traveling theatres; and theatrical and other performed responses to Argentina's socioeconomic crisis. She is a former editor of Theatre Journal.
