Areas of interest
Intermediality, visual culture and violence, trauma theory, gender and feminist performance, and post-dramatic theatre.
Education
- PhD, French and Theatre, UBC
- MA, French, University of Alberta
Biography
Donia Mounsef is Professor of drama and 脡tudes th茅芒trales at the University of Alberta dept. of Drama and Facult茅 Saint-Jean. A performance theorist and dramaturge, she is the author of "Chair et r茅volte dans le th茅芒tre de Bernard-Marie Kolt猫s" (l'Harmattan, 2005) and the co-editor of 鈥淭he Transparency of the Text鈥� (Yale French Studies, 2007). She publishes widely on intermediality, visual culture and violence, trauma theory, gender and feminist performance, and post-dramatic theatre. Her work appeared in "Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism," "Yale French Studies," "Esprit Cr茅ateur," "Yale Journal of Criticism," "Women and Performance Journal," "F茅minismos," "Alt-Theatre," "Prague Journal of English Studies," "Journal of Global Studies and Contemporary Art," "Kryton," etc. She is currently working on a book length study on "Transmediality and Biopolitics: En-Acting Digital Mediation in the Performing Arts."