Monstrous Utopias: Performance and the Radical Possibility of Hope (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781032986036)

Michael Mark Chemers is Professor and Chair of the Department of Performance, Play & Design at the University of California, Santa Cruz, USA; the author of The Monster in Theatre History: This Thing of Darkness (Routledge, 2018); the co-editor, with Analola Santana, of Monsters in Performance: Essays on the Aesthetics of Disqualification (Routledge, 2022) and The Figure of the Monster in Global Theatre (Routledge, 2024), and with Ekaterina Trachsel and Gerald Siegmund of Staging Monstrous Bodies (Routledge, 2025); and the founding Director of the UCSC Center for Monster Studies.

Analola Santana is Associate Professor of Theater at Dartmouth College, USA. She is the author of Teatro y Cultura de Masas: Encuentros y Debates (2010) and Freak Performances: Dissidence in Latin American Theatre (2018), which considers the significance of theatrical practices that use the "freak" as a medium to explore the continuing effects of colonialism on Latin American identity. She works as a professional dramaturg and is a company member of Mexico's famed Teatro de Ciertos Habitantes.