James M. Harding is Professor of Theatre and Performance Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park. He is the author of Performance, Transparency and the Cultures of Surveillance (Michigan, 2018); The Ghosts of the Avant- Garde(s): Exorcising Experimental Theater and Performance (Michigan, 2013); Cutting Performances: Collage Events, Feminist Artists, and the American Avant-Garde (Michigan, 2011); and, Adorno and a Writing of the Ruins (SUNY, 1997). He has coedited three anthologies with Cindy Rosenthal: The Sixties, Center Stage: Mainstream and Popular Performances in a Turbulent Decade (Michigan 2017); The Rise of Performance Studies: Rethinking Richard Schechner’s Broad Spectrum (Palgrave, 2011); and Restaging the Sixties: Radical Theaters and Their Legacies (Michigan, 2006). With John Rouse, he co-edited Not the Other Avant-Garde (Michigan, 2006), and he was the sole editor of Contours of the Theatrical Avant-Garde (Michigan, 2000).
