Marcia Blumberg

(19*-) Academic and theatre historian. Born in South Africa, later emigrated to the Canada, where she began her post-graduate studies at York University, concentrating on post-colonial and South African literature and drama. Joined the staff of the English department where she teaches courses on theatre from the Greeks to the present and specializes in modern and contemporary drama and performance from South Africa, Britain and America and in 2012 obtained tenure as professor at York University. She has published many articles especially specifically on South African theatre. In this regard she began to work closely with Dennis Walder of the Open University's Post Colonial Literature's project, becoming the co-editor of South African Theatre And/As Intervention (1999). She is a Editorial Consultant for the South African Theatre Journal.

(See Bibliography section for more on her publications.)