Diana Taylor is Professor of Performance Studies and Spanish and Director of the Hemispheric Institute on Performance and Politics at New York University. Among her books are Holy Terrors: Latin American Women Perform (coedited with Roselyn Costantino), Disappearing Acts: Spectacles of Gender and Nationalism in Argentina??'s ???Dirty War, ??? and Negotiating Performance: Gender, Sexuality, and Theatricality in Latin/o America (with Juan Villegas), all published by Duke University Press.