Catherine M. Cole

Catherine M. Cole is Professor of Dance and English at the University of Washington. Her most recent book, "Performance and the Afterlives of Injustice" (2020), is about dance and live art in contemporary South Africa and beyond. Previous books include "Performing South Africa’s Truth Commission: Stages of Transition" (2010) and "Ghana's Concert Party Theatre" (2001). Cole has co-edited the book "Africa After Gender?," as well as special issues of Theatre Survey on “African and Afro-Caribbean Performance” and TDR: The Drama Review on "Routes of Blackface.” Cole’s disability dance theater piece Five Foot Feat, created in collaboration with Christopher Pilafian, toured North America in 2002-2005.