Marcos Steuernagel

M.A. and Ph.D. in Performance Studies, New York University
Specialization in Cinema and Video, Faculdade de Artes do Paraná, Brazil
B.A. in Theatre Directing, Faculdade de Artes do Paraná, Brazil

Marcos works on the intersection between performance and politics, Brazilian and Latin American theatre and performance, and the digital humanities. He is co-editor with Diana Taylor of the trilingual digital book What is Performance Studies? and of the upcoming Resistant Strategies, and is a member of the editorial board of HemiPress, the digital imprint of the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics. His upcoming monograph traces the relationship between politics and aesthetics in contemporary Brazilian theatre and dance. Before joining CU Boulder, Marcos was Arts & Humanities Postdoctoral Associate at New York University Abu Dhabi, Adjunct Instructor at the departments of Drama and Performance Studies at New York University, and Instructor at the Theatre Department at Faculdade de Artes do Paraná, Brazil. 

Recent Publications:

- Review of Performing Brazil: Essays on Culture, Identity, and the Performing Arts, by Severino J. Albuquerque and Kathryn Bishop-Sanchez, eds. TDR/The Drama Review 61, no. 1 (February 27, 2017): 186–88.
- Taylor, Diana and Marcos Steuernagel, eds. 2015. What is Performance Studies? Durham: Duke University Press; New York: HemiPress.

Spring 2017 Courses:
THTR 5051-001: At the Border: Performance and Activism in the Americas
THTR 6041-001: Global Modern Theatre

Fall 2017 Courses:
THTR 4059-001: Performing Activism in the Americas