Patrick Anderson

Patrick Anderson is Professor in the Department of Communication, the Department of Ethnic Studies, and the Critical Gender Studies Program, at the University of California, San Diego, and a 2023 Guggenheim Fellow. A former Fulbright Scholar and Berkeley Fellow, he holds a BS in Anthropology and Performance Studies from Northwestern, an MA in Communication Studies and Cultural Studies from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and a PhD in Performance Studies and Women, Gender, and Sexuality from the University of California, Berkeley. He has served on the Board of Directors for Performance Studies International, as Vice President of the American Society for Theater Research, as chair of the faculty board for University of California Press, and is co-editor (with Nicholas Ridout) of the Performance Works book series at Northwestern University Press. He is the author of The Lamentations (Fordham University Press, 2024), Autobiography of a Disease (Routledge, 2017) and So Much Wasted (Duke University Press, 2010), and the co-editor (with Jisha Menon) of Violence Performed (Palgrave 2009).