Marvin Carlson is the Sidney E. Cohn Professor of Theatre and Performance, Comparative Literature and Middle Eastern Studies at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He has received an honorary doctorate from the University of Athens, the ATHE Career Achievement Award, the ASTR Distinguished Scholarship Award, the George Jean Nathan Award for Dramatic Criticism, and the Calloway Prize for writing in theatre. He is the founding editor of the journals Western European Stages and Arab Stages. He is the author of about thirty books, most renowned of which include Theories of the Theatre (1993) , The Haunted Stage(2001), Criticism of Performing (2002), VIS: Theatre (2014), the most recent of which is Shattering Hamlet’s Mirror (Michigan, 2016) and of over 300 scholarly articles. His work has been translated into fourteen languages. He is the also the Lecture Professor at Washington University, University of Indiana, Free University Berlin, etc.