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Speaker(s): Professor David Levin

David J. Levin is Addie Clark Harding Professor of Germanic Studies, Cinema & Media Studies, and Theater and Performance Studies at the University of Chicago. He is the founding director of the University of Chicago's Richard and Mary L Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry which supports experimental collaborations between artists and scholars.  His numerous books and articles focus on the aesthetics and politics of performance in opera, theater, and film. In addition to his academic work, Levin has also served extensively as a dramaturg for opera houses in the US and Germany as well as for the choreographers William Forsythe and Saar Magal. From 2005-2015 he served as executive editor of The Opera Quarterly.