MICHAEL Y. BENNETT is Associate Professor of English and Affiliated Faculty in Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater. The author or editor of eleven books, he is known for his work on the philosophy of theatre and performance and on absurd drama and literature. He will be a Visiting Fellow at the University of Cambridge, Clare Hall in Summer 2019, at which time he will be a Life Member of Clare Hall. In Spring 2014, he was a UW System Fellow at the Institute for Research in the Humanities at University of Wisconsin-Madison. He received the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater Outstanding Research Award in 2015. In addition to being on the Advisory Boards of Comparative Drama and the Journal of American Drama and Theatre, and serving on the Board of Directors of The Edward Albee Society, he is Series Editor of New Perspectives in Edward Albee Studies.

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