Diana Taylor (born 1950) is an American academic. She is a professor of

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and Spanish at

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and the founding director of the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics. She is also the president of the Modern Language Association (MLA) in 2017-2018. Her work focuses on Latin American and U.S. theatre and performance, performance and politics, feminist theatre and performance in the Americas, Hemispheric studies, and trauma studies. She is married to Eric Manheimer, former New York

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medical director and current producer of the NBC television show New Amsterdam.

Early life

Taylor graduated from the Universidad de las Américas, A.C. in Mexico, where she earned a bachelor of arts degree in creative writing in 1971, and another degree from

Aix-Marseille University Aix-Marseille University (AMU; french: Aix-Marseille Université; formally incorporated as ''Université d'Aix-Marseille'') is a public research university located in the Provence region of southern France. It was founded in 1409 when Louis II o ...

in France. She earned a master's degree from the National Autonomous University of Mexico in 1974 and a PhD from the

University of Washington The University of Washington (UW, simply Washington, or informally U-Dub) is a public research university in Seattle, Washington. Founded in 1861, Washington is one of the oldest universities on the West Coast; it was established in Seattl ...

in 1981, both of which in comparative literature.

Career

Taylor taught at

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from 1982 to 1997. She is a professor of

and Spanish at

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. She is also the founding director of the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics. She became the second vice president of the Modern Language Association in December 2014. She served as its president from January 2017 to January 2018. Taylor received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2005. She won the Best Book Award by New England Council on Latin American Studies for ''Theatre of Crisis'', and the Outstanding Book award from the Association of Theatre in Higher Education and the Kathleen Singer Kovaks Award from the Modern Language Association (MLA) for ''The Archive and the Repertoire''.

Works

As an author

* ''¡Presente! The Politics of Presence'' * ''The Archive and the Repertoire: Performing Cultural Memory in the Americas'' * ''Theatre of Crisis: Drama and Politics in Latin America'' * ''Disappearing Acts: Spectacles of Gender and Nationalism in Argentina's 'Dirty War

As an editor

*''Holy Terrors: Latin American Women Perform'' *''Defiant Acts: Four Plays by Diana Raznovich'' *''Negotiating Performance in Latin/o America: Gender, Sexuality and Theatricality'' *''The Politics of Motherhood: Activists from Left to Right''.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Taylor, Diana Living people National Autonomous University of Mexico alumni Aix-Marseille University alumni University of Washington alumni Dartmouth College faculty New York University faculty Latin Americanists 1950 births Presidents of the Modern Language Association