Charlotte M. Canning is the Frank C. Erwin Jr., Centennial Professor in Drama and Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Texas at Austin. Her books include Theatre & the USA (Methuen Drama, 2023) On the Performance Front: US Theatre and Internationalism (Palgrave, 2015) winner of the Joe A. Calloway Prize, Representing the Past: Essays in Performance Historiography (Iowa, 2010), The Most American Thing in America: Circuit Chautauqua as Performance (Iowa, 2005) recipient of the Barnard Hewitt Award for Outstanding Research in Theatre History, and Feminist Theaters In The USA: Staging Women's Experience (Routledge, 1996). Her op-eds have appeared in the Time Magazine, Houston Chronicle, Dallas Morning News, The Chronicle of Higher Education, the Washington Post, The Conversation, and other publications.