Meiling Cheng
Meiling Cheng | |
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鄭美玲 | |
| Born | 1960 (age 63–64) Taipei, Taiwan |
| Occupation | Theatrologist |
| Awards | Guggenheim Fellowship (2008) |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Performance art studies |
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Meiling Cheng (Chinese: 鄭美玲;[1] born 1960) is a Taiwanese performance arts academic based in the United States. A 2008 Guggenheim Fellow, she is the author of In Other Los Angeleses (2002), Beijing Xingwei (2014), and Reading Contemporary Performance (2015), and she is a professor at the USC School of Dramatic Arts.[2]
Biography
[edit]Meiling Cheng, an ethnic Hakka, was born in 1960 in Taipei and later raised there.[3][2][4] She later began publishing poetry, fiction, and essays, and she studied at National Taiwan University, where she obtained her BA in 1983.[5]
In 1986, Cheng later moved to the United States, obtaining her MFA in Dramaturgy and Dramatic Criticism in 1989 and DFA in Theatre Arts in 1993, both from the Yale School of Drama and on Asian Cultural Council grants.[2] She also had a brief dramaturge career while in Yale, working for Lee Breuer, Brighde Mullins, Lynn Nottage, and August Wilson's The Piano Lesson.[2] After spending a year at Mount Holyoke College as an assistant professor of theatre arts, she moved to the University of Southern California, where she was assistant professor of theatre before being promoted to associate professor in 2000.[2] She was promoted to full professor in 2015 and became the school's head of critical studies in 2019.[2]
As an academic, Cheng specializes in performance art studies.[2] In 2002, she published the book In Other Los Angeleses.[6] In 2004, she started writing essays on Chinese performance art,[1] and in 2008, she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for her book project Beijing Xingwei, where she discusses the role of time-based media in the history of China after Deng Xiaoping; the book was eventually published in 2014.[5][7] She co-edited the 2015 volume Reading Contemporary Performance.[8] In addition to academia, she also works with live art events.[5]
Cheng is a widow.[9]
Publications
[edit]- In Other Los Angeleses (2002)[10][11][12]
- Beijing Xingwei (2014)[13][14]
- Reading Contemporary Performance (2015)
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Cheng, Meiling". USC US-China Institute. Retrieved 15 November 2024.
- ^ a b c d e f g "Meiling Cheng". USC School of Dramatic Arts. Retrieved 16 November 2024.
- ^ Cheng, Meiling (2002). In Other Los Angeleses: Multicentric Performance Art. University of California Press. p. xvi.
- ^ "1:1:2 at the Schindler House with Meiling Cheng and Artist Reception". MAK Center for Art and Architecture. 9 September 2022. Retrieved 16 November 2024.
- ^ a b c "Meiling Cheng". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Retrieved 15 November 2024.
- ^ "In Other Los Angeleses by Meiling Cheng - Paper". University of California Press. Retrieved 15 November 2024.
- ^ "Beijing Xingwei: Contemporary Chinese Time-based Art". University of Chicago Press. Retrieved 15 November 2024.
- ^ "Reading Contemporary Performance: Theatricality Across Genres". Routledge & CRC Press. Retrieved 15 November 2024.
- ^ Win, Phyo Pyae Nay Chi; Huang, Keyu (9 March 2019). "International Women's Day Spotlight". USC Annenberg. Retrieved 16 November 2024.
- ^ Bial, Henry (2004). "In Other Los Angeleses: Multicentric Performance Art". Theatre Research International. 29 (2): 186–187. doi:10.1017/S0307883304210604. ISSN 1474-0672 – via Cambridge University Press.
- ^ Klein, Jennie (2003). ""If You Lived Here You'd Be Home Now": Performance in Los Angeles". PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art. 25 (3): 105–113. ISSN 1520-281X – via JSTOR.
- ^ Nakas, Kestutis (2003). "In Other Los Angeleses: Multicentric Performance Art (review)". Theatre Journal. 55 (4): 747–748. doi:10.1353/tj.2003.0181. ISSN 1086-332X – via Project MUSE.
- ^ Zhuang, Jiayun (2015). "Beijing Xingwei: Contemporary Chinese Time-Based Art by Meiling Cheng (review)". Theatre Journal. 67 (1): 158–159. ISSN 1086-332X – via Project MUSE.
- ^ Wang, Peggy (2015). "Review of Beijing Xingwei: Contemporary Chinese Time-Based Art". TDR. 59 (2): 173–175. ISSN 1054-2043 – via JSTOR.
| International | |
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| National | |
| Other | |
- 1960 births
- Living people
- Theatrologists
- American academics of Taiwanese descent
- Taiwanese emigrants to the United States
- Taiwanese people of Hakka descent
- Hakka writers
- Artists from Taipei
- Writers from Taipei
- National Taiwan University alumni
- David Geffen School of Drama at Yale University alumni
- Mount Holyoke College faculty
- University of Southern California faculty
- Taiwanese women academics
- 21st-century American academics
- 21st-century American women academics