Peggy Phelan is among the best-known contemporary feminist theorists, with a particular focus on contemporary visual arts and performance from feminist psychoanalytic perspectives. Phelan taught in the Department of Performance, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University, from 1985-2002, and is currently the Ann O'Day Maples Chair in the Arts and Professor of Drama and English at Stanford University. Helena Reckitt is an independent writer and arts organizer. A former commissioning editor at Routledge, and head of talks at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, Reckitt was also curator at the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Georgia.
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