Katherine Zien
McGill University
Katherine (Katie) Zien* is Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies in the English Department (Drama and Theatre Concentration). Zien researches and teaches theatre and performance in the Americas, with special focus on transnationalism, militarization, gender, and racialization. Following her 2017 book Sovereign Acts: Performing Race, Space, and Belonging in Panama and the Canal Zone, Zien has developed two ongoing research projects. The first is Bodies on the Front Lines: Performance, Gender, and Sexuality in Latin America and the Caribbean (https://press.umich.edu/Books/B/Bodies-on-the-Front-Lines2) The second, a monograph-in-progress and digital accompaniment, investigate performances of counterinsurgency and military training in the Panama Canal Zone during Latin America’s cold war. Zien is co-editor of the Routledge Studies in Cultures of the Global Cold War book series (https://rb.gy/hpju33) and Co-Director of the Réseau d’Études Latino-américaines de Montréal (https://relam.org/). Zien’s research is supported by a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Insight Grant from the Government of Canada.
*Zien rhymes with “Lion.”
