Workshop with Carrie Preston and Sean Metzger

THEATER AND PERFORMANCE

SPEAKERS: Carrie Preston, Boston University; Sean Metzger, UCLA

Please RSVP to kfrisina@holycross.edu to receive a copy of the pre-circulated work.

A 2026 Guggenheim Fellow, Sean Metzger is a professor in the UCLA School of Theater, Film, and Television and the current chair of UCLA’s Asian American Studies department. He is the author of Chinese Looks: Fashion, Performance, Race (2014) and The Chinese Atlantic: Seascapes and the Theatricality of Globalization (2020). The latter won awards from the American Theatre and Drama Society and the Association for Asian American Studies. The former editor of Theatre Journal, he has co-edited several special issues of other journals—Cultural Dynamics, Third Text, and Asian Diasporic Visual Cultures and the Americas—and several books, including Embodying Asian/American Sexualities (2009); Futures of Chinese Cinema: Technologies and Temporalities in Chinese Screen Cultures (2009); Awkward Stages: Plays about Growing Up Gay (2015); and The Methuen Drama Handbook of Gender and Theatre (2024). He was president of Performance Studies international from 2016-2020.

Carrie Preston is Professor of English and Women’s, Gender, & Sexuality Studies, Chair of the English Department, and Associate Chair of the Center on Forced Displacement at Boston University. She is the author of numerous articles and three books, the most recent being Complicit Participation: The Liberal Audience for Theater of Racial Justice (Oxford, 2024). She co-edited Mexico-US, Serbia-EU Border Lives and Works (Anthem, 2025) and her current research examines performance and protest in the current period of human mobilities, migration, and displacement.