M.A. 1991 (Theatre Arts), Brown University;
B.A. 1989 (Comparative Literature: Spanish, Italian, and English literature), Brown University.
Associate Professor of Spanish & Portuguese and of Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Latin American theater and performance art; art and activism; comparative approaches to race and performance in the Americas.
Book project in progress: Political Gesture: a genealogy of Latin American performance art
Co-editor, “Creators,” with Indu Jain and Elliot Mercer; volume in the series Women’s Innovation in Theater, Dance, and Performance, Bloomsbury Press (under review/in progress)
Blackface Cuba, 1840-1895. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005.
Co-editor, The Ends of Performance, with Peggy Phelan. New York: New York University Press, 1998.
“Latin American Theatre and Performance,” Oxford Bibliographies online (2020). DOI: 10.1093/OBO/9780199766581-0233
(see more publications at https://nyu.academia.edu/JillMeredithLane)
“Performance Worlds of Nineteenth Century Theatre” in The Cambridge History of Cuban Literature, Eds. Vicky Unruh and Jacqueline Loss. Cambridge University Press (in press, forthcoming).
“Problems of Framing: National or Colonial Approaches to Blackface Performance?” in Colonial-Era Caribbean Theatre: Challenges in Research, Writing and Methodology, Ed. Julia Prest. Liverpool University Press, 2023 (in press, forthcoming).
“Corporeality and Critique” in Coco Fusco, Tomorrow I Will Become an Island, Thames and Hudson, 2023.
“Political Stigmata: Arrest and Expenditure in the Art of Carlos Martiel,” critical essay in the artist dossier “Carlos Martiel: Corporeal Monuments,” e-misférica 14.1 (Winter 2019) [In English and Spanish]
“What Decolonial Gesture Is,” editorial remarks (with Marcial Godoy-Anativia and Macarena Gomez-Barris) e-msiférica 11.1 (Winter 2014) [In English, Spanish and Portuguese]
“Postnational Theatre Studies,” in Brenda Werth, Florian N. T. Becker, and Paola S. Hernández. Imagining Human Rights in Twenty-First-Century Theater: Global Perspectives. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
“Against Gravity: Marta Minujín’s Feminist Anti-Monuments and the Politics of Inclination,” part of the Feminist Research Group at the International Federation of Theatre Research Conference, Accra, Ghana, 24–28 July 2023.
“Reading Unmarked with David Wojnarowicz,” on the panel Remembering Peggy Phelan’s Unmarked at 25, American Studies Association Conference, 10 November 2018, Atlanta GA.
“Tobacco and Sugar, race and violence, in the marquillas of Victor Patricio Landaluze,” on the panel “Complicating Black Subjectivities from Latinidades,” at Black Portraitures IV: The Color of Silence, 24 March 2018, Harvard University.
Workshop/Presentation “What is Performance Studies?/¿Qué son los estudios de performance?” at the Hemispheric Institute encuentro, “The World Inside Out: Humor, Noise, and Performance” 9–15 June 2019, Mexico City, Mexico.
“Racial Predation,” on the panel “Blackface in Latin America,” Latin American Studies Association Congress, 27–30 May 2015, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Director, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, NYU, 2012–2020
Co-Editor, with Marcial Godoy Anativia, of e-misférica, the journal of the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics, 2008–2018.