Tina Post is Associate Professor of English and Theater and Performance Studies, at the University of Chicago. Her first book, Deadpan, won the Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present’s book prize, the John W. Frick award from the American Theatre and Drama Society, an outstanding book award from the Association for Theatre in Higher Education, and the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism. Her scholarly articles have appeared in ASAP/Journal, Modern Drama, TDR, International Review of African American Art, and the edited collection Race and Performance after Repetition. Her creative work can be found in Imagined Theaters, Stone Canoe, The Appendix, and Portable Gray.