Rossella Ferrari

regional managing editor

Rossella Ferrari is Professor of Chinese Studies at the University of Vienna. She specializes in the performance cultures of the Chinese-speaking region, focusing particularly on contemporary experimental theatres and transnational collaborations within the Sinophone region and across East Asia. Her research interests include avant-garde theory, interculturalism, transnationalism, adaptation, intermediality, and inter-Asian studies. She is the author of Pop Goes the Avant-Garde: Experimental Theatre in Contemporary China (Seagull Books/University of Chicago Press, 2012), the first English-language monograph on Chinese experimental theatre, and of Transnational Chinese Theatres: Intercultural Performance Networks in East Asia (Palgrave, 2020). She is co-editor (with Ashley Thorpe) of Asian City Crossings: Pathways of Performance through Hong Kong and Singapore (Routledge, 2021). She holds a PhD in Chinese Studies from SOAS, University of London.