Ekaterina Trachsel Editor

Michael Mark Chemers is Professor of Dramatic Literature and Chair of the Department of Performance, Play & Design at the University of California Santa Cruz, USA. He is the author or co-editor of several books on monsters in performance, freak shows, and dramaturgy.

Ekaterina Trachsel is a theater scholar and theater maker currently working as a postdoctoral researcher at the Justus Liebig University in Giessen, Germany. Her research focuses on contemporary dramaturgies, institutional change, and theatrical stagings of monstrous bodies and orders.

Gerald Siegmund is Professor of Applied Theatre Studies at the Justus-Liebig University in Giessen, Germany. His research focuses on forms of contemporary theatre, dance, and performance, aesthetics, theories of memory, and the intermediality of theatre in relation to the visual arts.