Assistant Professor in Music, Theater, and Dance at Texas State University
About
Dr. Ana Martínez's fields of specialization are theatre practices in Mexico, Latin American drama, and performance design. Her book, "Performance in the Zócalo: Constructing History, Race, and Identity in Mexico's Central Square from the Colonial Era to the Present" (University of Michigan Press, 2020) is the first full English-language manuscript to address the ways in which the material center of the Mexican capital, the Zócalo, manifests and contests its symbolic power through performances practices. Her performance designs and installations have been shown in the US, England, Germany, and Mexico. She holds a doctoral degree in Theatre Studies from the City University of New York Graduate Center, an MA in Scenography from Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in London, and an Architecture degree from Universidad Anahuac in Mexico City.
Current Work:
Dr. Ana Martínez integrates a knowledge of performance and spatial practices with socially grounded research. Her fields of specialization are theatre practices in Mexico, Latin American drama, and site-specific performance. Her book, "Performance in the Zócalo: Constructing History, Race, and Identity in Mexico's Central Square from the Colonial Era to the Present" (University of Michigan Press, 2020) examines the ways in which this city's square manifests and contests its symbolic power through performances practices. Her chapter "Scenographies behind the Scenes" in the edited collection The Stage's Glory: John Rich reconstructs some of Covent Garden's eighteenth-century scenographies through an inventory of sets, props, and costumes. Her chapter on the 2001 march by the Zapatistas to the Zócalo is included in "Performance and the Global City." Her current research and upcoming article focuses on performances about migration.
Research Area Keyword(s):
performance; theatre; Mexico; Latinx; cultural geography
