Loren Kruger is a South African writer, editor, and translator based in Chicago. She holds a BA (Hons.) in English and Mathematics from the University of Cape Town (UCT) and a PhD in Comparative Literature from Cornell University, and completed independent study at the Institut d'études théâtrales at the University of Paris III and the Institut für Theaterwissenschaft at the Free University in Berlin. She edited Theatre Journal from 1996 to 1999, and served as contributing editor for Theatre Research International in 2002 and 2003 and taught comparative literature, theatre and performance studies, cinema and media studies, and African studies at the University of Chicago (1986-2024).[1] Her areas of expertise and ongoing research include theatre and performance in Europe and the Americas as well as in her native South Africa, cinema and other media, and urban life and cultures in global, local and glocal contexts. Her published work includes books, translation, and articles, some of which are listed below, and reviews of live performance in Africa, Europe, and the Americas.
Kruger's research has been supported by fellowships from the Crasnow Foundation in South Africa, as well as from Cornell University, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Fulbright Foundation, and the Mellon Foundation in the United States, and the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) twice for research in Berlin. Her publications have won awards including the Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literary Study from the Modern Language Association and the Philadelphia Constantinidis Prize from the Comparative Drama Association.[2][3] She has been honored for her editorial work by the Association of Theatre in Higher Education for her work editingTheatre Journal, including special issues on Enacting Americans, South Africa, Diaspora and the Politics of Home, and Theatre and Capital, and by the American Society of Theatre Research for working with emerging authors whose articles in Theatre Journal won the ASTR's Gerard Kahan Prize in 1997 and 1998.
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