Tina Post

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Tina Post’s recent monograph, Deadpan: The Aesthetics of Black Inexpression (2023), won book awards from the Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present, the American Theatre and Drama Society, the Association for Theatre in Higher Education, and the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism. Her scholarly articles have appeared in ASAP/Journal, Modern Drama, TDR, International Review of African American Art (IRAAA), and the edited collection Race and Performance after Repetition. Her creative work can be found in Imagined Theaters, Stone Canoe, The Appendix, and Portable Gray. Post is associate professor in the Department of English Language and Literature and the Committee in Theater and Performance Studies, and an associate member of the Departments of Art History and Visual Arts at the University of Chicago.