Harvey Young is Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Theatre at Northwestern University, USA. He is the editor of The Cambridge Companion to African American Theatre (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming) and the author of Embodying Black Experience: Stillness, Critical Memory, and the Black Body (University of Michigan Press 2010), which was the recipient of the 2011 Lilla A. Heston Award for Outstanding Scholarship in Interpretation and Performance Studies. With Ramon Rivera-Servera, he also co-edited Performance in the Borderlands (Palgrave Macmillan 2011).
