Marvin Carlson
Marvin Carlson is the Sidney E. Cohn Professor Emeritus of Theatre, 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 and has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is the director of the Marvin Carlson Center for the study of Global Theatre at the Shanghai Theatre Academy and the founding editor of the journals Western European Stages and Arab Stages. He is the author of over 330 scholarly articles and twenty-three books, among them Theories of the Theatre, The Haunted Stage, and Theatre and Islam. His work has been translated into 23 languages.