Freddie Rokem

Freddie Rokem is Professor (Emeritus) in the Department of Theatre at Tel Aviv University, where he served as the Dean of the Faculty of the Arts (2002-2006) and held the Emanuel Herzikowitz Chair for 19th and 20th Century Art (2006-2016). He is currently (2017-2020) the Wiegeland Visiting Professor of Theatre & Performance Studies at the University of Chicago. His more recent books are Philosophers and Thespians: Thinking Performance (2010; translated into Italian and Polish; to appear in German and Hebrew); Jews and the Making of Modern German Theatre (2010, co-edited with Jeanette Malkin); Strindberg's Secret Codes (2004) and the prize-winning book Performing History: Theatrical Representations of the Past in Contemporary Theatre (2000; translated into German and Polish). He was the editor of Theatre Research International from 2006-2009, and is now co-editor of the Palgrave/Macmillan book series 'Performance Philosophy'. He has been a visiting professor at many universities in the United States, Germany, Finland and Sweden, and is also a practicing dramaturge.