Leo Cabranes-Grant is Professor of intercultural and performance studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is an award winning scholar, playwright, and poet. He has published books on Lope de Vega and Viceregal Mexico; his most recent monograph analyzes the links between philosophy and performance in the works of Søren Kierkegaard. In addition to four collections of poetry, his plays have been produced in San Juan (Puerto Rico), New York, Boston, Santa Barbara, and Buenos Aires. He was also Chief Editor of the prestigious journal Theatre Survey, published by Cambridge University Press and the American Society for Theatre Research (ASTR). At present he is director of Theater Studies at UCSB and Series Editor for Springer’s Transnational Theatre Histories.