Bonnie Marranca
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Bonnie Marranca is a New York City-based critic, and publisher/editor of PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art, which she co-founded, in 1976, and continues to edit. She has written three collections of criticism: Performance Histories, Ecologies of Theatre, and Theatrewritings, which received the George Jean Nathan Award for Dramatic Criticism. Among the many anthologies she has edited are: New Europe: plays from the continent, Plays for the End of the Century; American Dreams: The Imagination of Sam Shepard; and The Theatre of Images, which is one of the seminal books of contemporary theatre. Her writings have been translated into fifteen languages.
Marranca withdrew from the Graduate Center of The City University of New York
, Ph.D. Program in Theatre, to found Performing Arts Journal and began professional
career in arts publishing. She received an M.A. in Theatre from Hunter College
, a B.A. in English with a Latin Minor from Montclair State University
, and attended University of Copenhagen
in Denmark. She is a Professor of Theatre at Eugene Lang College/The New School for Liberal Arts
. She is a Guggenheim Fellow
, a recipient of the Leverhulme Trust
Visiting Professorship in the UK, and Fulbright Senior Scholar
who has taught in many universities here and abroad, including Columbia University
, Princeton University
, NYU
, Duke University
, the University of California-San Diego
, Free University of Berlin
, and the Autonomous University of Barcelona
Institute for Theatre .
Marranca withdrew from the Graduate Center of The City University of New York
CUNY Graduate Center
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, Ph.D. Program in Theatre, to found Performing Arts Journal and began professional
career in arts publishing. She received an M.A. in Theatre from Hunter College
Hunter College
Hunter College, established in 1870, is a public university and one of the constituent colleges of the City University of New York, located on Manhattan's Upper East Side. Hunter grants undergraduate, graduate, and post-graduate degrees in more than one hundred fields of study, and is recognized...
, a B.A. in English with a Latin Minor from Montclair State University
Montclair State University
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, and attended University of Copenhagen
University of Copenhagen
The University of Copenhagen is the oldest and largest university and research institution in Denmark. Founded in 1479, it has more than 37,000 students, the majority of whom are female , and more than 7,000 employees. The university has several campuses located in and around Copenhagen, with the...
in Denmark. She is a Professor of Theatre at Eugene Lang College/The New School for Liberal Arts
Eugene Lang College The New School for Liberal Arts
Eugene Lang College The New School for Liberal Arts is the seminar-style, undergraduate, liberal arts college of The New School university. It is located on-campus in New York City's Greenwich Village on West 11th Street off 6th Avenue.-History:...
. She is a Guggenheim Fellow
Guggenheim Fellowship
Guggenheim Fellowships are American grants that have been awarded annually since 1925 by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to those "who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the arts." Each year, the foundation makes...
, a recipient of the Leverhulme Trust
Leverhulme Trust
The Leverhulme Trust was established in 1925 under the will of the First Viscount Leverhulme, William Hesketh Lever, with the instruction that its resources should be used to support "scholarships for the purposes of research and education."...
Visiting Professorship in the UK, and Fulbright Senior Scholar
Fulbright Program
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who has taught in many universities here and abroad, including Columbia University
Columbia University
Columbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the...
, Princeton University
Princeton University
Princeton University is a private research university located in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. The school is one of the eight universities of the Ivy League, and is one of the nine Colonial Colleges founded before the American Revolution....
, NYU
New York University
New York University is a private, nonsectarian research university based in New York City. NYU's main campus is situated in the Greenwich Village section of Manhattan...
, Duke University
Duke University
Duke University is a private research university located in Durham, North Carolina, United States. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present day town of Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1892. In 1924, tobacco industrialist James B...
, the University of California-San Diego
University of California, San Diego
The University of California, San Diego, commonly known as UCSD or UC San Diego, is a public research university located in the La Jolla neighborhood of San Diego, California, United States...
, Free University of Berlin
Free University of Berlin
Freie Universität Berlin is one of the leading and most prestigious research universities in Germany and continental Europe. It distinguishes itself through its modern and international character. It is the largest of the four universities in Berlin. Research at the university is focused on the...
, and the Autonomous University of Barcelona
Autonomous University of Barcelona
The Autonomous University of Barcelona is a public university mostly located in Cerdanyola, near the city of Barcelona in Catalonia, Spain....
Institute for Theatre .