Faculty Fellow
Assistant Professor, Department of Drama, Tisch School of the Arts
Project: States of Illusion: Performance, Media, and Politics in Contemporary Latin America
Sebastián Calderón Bentin is a theater artist and Assistant Professor in the Department of Drama at New York University. His research interests include performance theory, mass media, theories of the baroque and Latin American cultural studies. His writings have appeared in the journals TDR, Identities, and Istmo as well as book anthologies such as Neoliberalism and Global Theaters(Palgrave Macmillan, 2012) and Support Networks (University of Chicago Press, 2015). His current book project, The Politics of (Dis)illusion, explores the effects of new video technologies on the relationship between illusion and power in contemporary Latin American politics. He has been a visiting teacher at the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at New York University, the Teatro de la Universidad Católica in Peru and the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics where he is an Associate Faculty member.