Marcela Fuentes

Los Angeles, California United States

Education

Marcela Fuentes is a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the program “Cultures in Transnational Perspective” at UCLA where she teaches in the School of Theater, Film, and Television. She holds a PhD in Performance Studies from New York University. Her work explores performance as political intervention online and offline, focusing on contemporary cultural production in the Americas in response to neoliberalism and neoconservatism. From 2004 to 2008, she served as Managing Editor of e-misférica, the biannual online journal published by the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics. Marcela has also a background in theater, performance art, and independent radio as a director, dramatur