Loren Kruger

KRUGER, Loren. (19**-) Academic and theatre historian who as worked extensively on South African theatre. Born in South Africa, studied at ** and Cornell University (PhD 1986), then became a professor at the University of Chicago in 1986. 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. A contributing editor of Theatre Research International and Scrutiny2 (in South Africa). 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. Besides numerous articles and translations (inter alia articles by Patrice Pavis), her best known work on SA theatre is The Drama of South Africa: Plays, Pageants and Publics Since 1910 (Routledge, 1999) and the autobiography of Leontine Sagan which she edited. (See also Bibliography section for publications on South African theatre) (TH)

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