Meiling Cheng, University of Southern California
Professor
School of Dramatic Arts
Los Angeles, California
meilingc@usc.edu
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(213) 740-1496
(323) 934-8838
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Bio/Research
Meiling Cheng is an Associate Professor of Theatre/Critical Studies and English at USC and Director of Critical Studies at USC School of Theatre. Before she moved to the United States from Taipei, Taiwan, in 1986, she had published poems in Chinese, directed two theatre pieces, and had won severa...
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Bio/Research
Meiling Cheng is an Associate Professor of Theatre/Critical Studies and English at USC and Director of Critical Studies at USC School of Theatre. Before she moved to the United States from Taipei, Taiwan, in 1986, she had published poems in Chinese, directed two theatre pieces, and had won several awards for her short stories and essays. She studied dramatic criticism and theatre arts at Yale University, School of Drama, where she earned her MFA and DFA degrees. She has written and lectured widely on performance art, visual and kinetic theatre, time-based art and site-specific installations. Her book In Other Los Angeleses: Multicentric Performance Art (University of California Press, 2002) deals with minoritarian subject formation and the links between visuality and theatricality in live art activities in Los Angeles. Since 2004, her series of essays on Chinese xingwei yishu (performance art) and xingwei-zhuangzhi (performative installation) have appeared in the US-based journals, TDR, Theatre Forum, Public Art Review, in the UK’s Performance Research, and in Australia’s Performance Paradigm. She is currently finishing up a book manuscript entitled Beijing Xingwei: Contemporary Chinese Time-based Art, for which she received the support of a Zumberge Individual Research Award from USC and a 2008 Guggenheim Fellowship.
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