Loren Kruger - Revision history

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Biography

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Sources

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 Her focus is on literature and visual culture in South Africa, and drama and performance in English, French, German and Spanish across Africa, the African diaspora, the Americas, and Europe. Her research in South Africa and elsewhere has been supported by the Deutscher Academischer Austauschdienst (DAAD), the Fulbright Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities (US), and the Universities of Chicago and the Witwatersrand
-She was the editor of ''Theatre Journal'' (1996-99) and has served on the editorial boards of ''Theatre Research International'', the ''South African Theatre Journal'',  ''Theatre Survey'', ''Modern Drama'', ''Scrutiny2'', and ''The South African Media Journal''. Affiliated with the Committees of African Studies, Cinema and Media Studies, and Theater and Performance Studies as well as the Departments of Comparative Literature and German in Chicago.
+She was the editor of ''Theatre Journal'' (1996-99) and has served on the editorial boards of ''Theatre Research International'', the ''[[South African Theatre Journal]]'',  ''Theatre Survey'', ''Modern Drama'', ''[[Scrutiny2]]'', and ''[[The South African Media Journal]]''. Affiliated with the Committees of African Studies, Cinema and Media Studies, and Theater and Performance Studies as well as the Departments of Comparative Literature and German in Chicago.
 Author of numerous books, articles and translations

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 == Biography ==
-Born in South Africa, educated in Johannesburg and at the University of Cape Town (BA Honours), Loren Kruger is a writer and translator based in Chicago.
+Born in South Africa, educated in Johannesburg and at the [[University of Cape Town]] (BA Honours), [[Loren Kruger]] is an academic, writer and translator based in Chicago.
 Further education: MA and Ph.D. in Comparative Literature at Cornell University (1986) and study at the Institut d'études théâtrales at the University of Paris III (funded by Cornell) and at the Institut für Theaterwissenschaft Free University of Berlin (funded by DAAD). She was Professor of English, Comparative Literature, Theater and Performance Studies and African Studies at the University of Chicago from 1986 to 2024.

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 Her best known '''books''' on South African theatre and culture are:
-''A Century of South African Theatre'' (Bloomsbury 2020) ''The Drama of South Africa: Plays, Pageants and Publics Since 1910'' (Routledge, 1999);''Post-Imperial Brecht'' (Cambridge, 2004), which won the Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literature awarded by the the Modern Language Association (USA), ''Imagining the Edgy City: Writing, Performing and Building Johannesburg'' (Oxford, 2013) . She has also edited ''Lights & Shadows. The autobiography of [[Leontine Sagan]]'' (Witwatersrand University Press, 1996), and translated a selection of works by Eugène Pottier, authore of the '' Internationale'': Beyond the Internationale: Revolutionary writings by Eugene Pottier, Communard (Chicago: Charles H Jewrr, 2024) ''Theatre at the Crossroads of Culture by Patrice Pavis (Routledge 1991) and from German ''The instutions of art by Peter and Christa Bürger (U of Nebraska Press)
+''A Century of South African Theatre'' (Bloomsbury 2020) ''The Drama of South Africa: Plays, Pageants and Publics Since 1910'' (Routledge, 1999);''Post-Imperial Brecht'' (Cambridge, 2004), which won the Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literature awarded by the the Modern Language Association (USA), ''Imagining the Edgy City: Writing, Performing and Building Johannesburg'' (Oxford, 2013) . She has also edited ''Lights & Shadows. The autobiography of [[Leontine Sagan]]'' (Witwatersrand University Press, 1996),
 '''Articles''' include:
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 Writing as [[Loren A. Kruger]], "[[Lara Foot]]", published in [[Martin Middeke]],  [[Peter Paul Schnierer]] and [[Greg Homann]] (editors).  ''The Methuen Drama Guide to Contemporary South African Theatre''. London: Bloomsbury Publishing.
 See also Bibliography section for publications on South African theatre)
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 == Sources ==

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 https://complit.uchicago.edu/faculty/kruger
-https://english.uchicago.edu/faculty/loren-kruger
+https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loren_Kruger
 https://charleshkerr.com/books/beyond-the-internationale-by-loren-kruger/

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 == Biography ==
-Born in South Africa, educated in Johannesburg and at the University of Cape Town (BA Honours).
+Born in South Africa, educated in Johannesburg and at the University of Cape Town (BA Honours), Loren Kruger is a writer and translator based in Chicago.
-Further education: MA and Ph.D. in Comparative Literature at Cornell University (1986) and study at the Institut d'études théâtrales at the University of Paris III (funded by Cornell) and at the Institut für Theaterwissenschaft Free University of Berlin (funded by DAAD). She has been a Professor of English, Comparative Literature, Theater and Performance Studies and African Studies at the University of Chicago since 1986.
+Further education: MA and Ph.D. in Comparative Literature at Cornell University (1986) and study at the Institut d'études théâtrales at the University of Paris III (funded by Cornell) and at the Institut für Theaterwissenschaft Free University of Berlin (funded by DAAD). She was Professor of English, Comparative Literature, Theater and Performance Studies and African Studies at the University of Chicago from 1986 to 2024.
 Her focus is on literature and visual culture in South Africa, and drama and performance in English, French, German and Spanish across Africa, the African diaspora, the Americas, and Europe. Her research in South Africa and elsewhere has been supported by the Deutscher Academischer Austauschdienst (DAAD), the Fulbright Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities (US), and the Universities of Chicago and the Witwatersrand
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 ==Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance==
-Her best known '''books''' on South African theatre and cutlure are:
+Her best known '''books''' on South African theatre and culture are:
 ''A Century of South African Theatre'' (Bloomsbury 2020) ''The Drama of South Africa: Plays, Pageants and Publics Since 1910'' (Routledge, 1999);''Post-Imperial Brecht'' (Cambridge, 2004), which won the Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literature awarded by the the Modern Language Association (USA), ''Imagining the Edgy City: Writing, Performing and Building Johannesburg'' (Oxford, 2013) . She has also edited ''Lights & Shadows. The autobiography of [[Leontine Sagan]]'' (Witwatersrand University Press, 1996), and translated a selection of works by Eugène Pottier, authore of the '' Internationale'': Beyond the Internationale: Revolutionary writings by Eugene Pottier, Communard (Chicago: Charles H Jewrr, 2024) ''Theatre at the Crossroads of Culture by Patrice Pavis (Routledge 1991) and from German ''The instutions of art by Peter and Christa Bürger (U of Nebraska Press)
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 "performance and politics in a time of confinement: virtual stages between South Africa and Afrian America." ''Critical Stages'' no. 23 (2021)
-"Glocal South Sides: Race, Capital and Performing Against injustice in Chicago and Johannesburg," ''Theatre Journal''
+"Glocal South Sides: Race, Capital and Performing Against injustice in Chicago and Johannesburg," ''Theatre Journal'' 72: 4 (2020), 469-85
 "Cape Town and the Sustainable City in the Writing of Henrietta Rose-Innes" ''Journal of Urban Cultural Studies'' 2:1-2 (2015), 15-33
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 https://complit.uchicago.edu/faculty/kruger
 https://english.uchicago.edu/faculty/loren-kruger
 https://www.oxford.co.za/book/9780199321902-imagining-the-edgy-city-writing-performing-and-building-johannesburg-h-writing-performing-and-building-johannesburg

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	[[Loren Kruger]] (1958-) is an academic and theatre historian who as worked extensively on South African theatre.		[[Loren Kruger]] (1958-) is an academic and theatre historian who as worked extensively on South African theatre.

−	Also publishes as [[Loren A. Kruger]]	+	Also publishes as '''[[Loren A. Kruger]]'''