Her current book project, Beyond Angels: Broadway Theatre and the AIDS Epidemic grew from years of research concerning creative, social, and political representations of the AIDS epidemic. Her work has appeared in Theatre History Studies, Text and Presentation, The 1980s, and The Oxford Handbook of the American Musical. Virginia Anderson is assistant professor of theater at Connecticut College, where she serves on the steering committee for the Holleran Center for Community Action and Public Policy and is a faculty fellow for the Ammerman Center for Arts and Technology. He is currently completing two new books, Empathy’s Others and Autobiography of a Disease.
He has published two books: Violence Performed (co-edited with Jisha Menon) and So Much Wasted: Hunger, Performance, and the Morbidity of Resistance. He currently serves as vice president of the American Society for Theatre Research, and is co-editor (with Nicholas Ridout) of the Performance Works book series at Northwestern University Press. Patrick Anderson is director of critical gender studies, and associate professor in the departments of ethnic studies and communication, at the University of California, San Diego.