Books By Mark (Professor of Dance, Professor of Dance, University of California-Santa Cruz) Franko - Author

Mark Franko, Laura H. Carnell Professor of Dance and Chair of Dance, Boyer College of Music and Dance (Temple University), has published six books: Martha Graham in Love and War: the Life in the Work; Excursion for Miracles: Paul Sanasardo, Donya Feuer, and Studio for Dance; The Work of Dance: Labor, Movement, and Identity in the 1930s; Dancing Modernism/Performing Politics; Dance as Text: Ideologies of the Baroque Body; The Dancing Body in Renaissance Choreography. Franko was editor of Dance Research Journal, edited Ritual and Event: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, co-editor of Acting on the Past: Historical Performance Across the Disciplines; and, founding editor of the Oxford Studies in Dance Theory book series. He is recipient of the 2011 Outstanding Scholarly Research in Dance Award from the Congress in Research in Dance. Choreograping Discourses: A Mark Franko Reader (edited with Alessandra Nicifero) is forthcoing at Routledge.