#  Sean Metzger 

Visiting Scholar in the Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History

 

 

 



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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.



 

 

 





 

 

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