Sean Metzger

A 2026 Guggenheim Fellow, Sean Metzger is a professor in the UCLA School of Theater, Film, and Television. He is the author of Chinese Looks: Fashion, Performance, Race (2014) and The Chinese Atlantic: Seascapes and the Theatricality of Globalization (2020). The latter won awards from the American Theatre and Drama Society and the Association for Asian American Studies. The former editor of Theatre Journal, he has co-edited several special issues of other journals—Cultural Dynamics, Third Text, and Asian Diasporic Visual Cultures and the Americas—and several books, including Embodying Asian/American Sexualities (2009); Futures of Chinese Cinema: Technologies and Temporalities in Chinese Screen Cultures (2009); Awkward Stages: Plays about Growing Up Gay (2015); and The Methuen Drama Handbook of Gender and Theatre (2024). He was president of Performance Studies international from 2016-2020.