Felicia McCarren

Felicia McCarren is Professor in the Department of French and Italian at Tulane University, New Orleans. She has written two books published by Stanford University Press: Dance Pathologies: Performance, Poetics, Medicine (1998) and Dancing Machines: Choreographies of the Age of Mechanical Reproduction (2003). Her work on French hip hop has appeared in Terrain, and in a collection entitled Blackening Europe (Routledge, 2004). Work on the telephone, cinema, and visual culture of Morocco is forthcoming in the Journal of Postcolonial Writing, and she is currently working on the problem of gesture as a universal language in global performance and information culture.