Penny Farfan is Professor of Drama at the University of Calgary. She is the author of Women, Modernism, and Performance, the co-editor of Contemporary Women Playwrights: Into the Twenty-First Century, and a past editor of Theatre Journal. In 2015, she received the Association for Theatre in Higher Education's Excellence in Editing Award for sustained career achievement and the Women and Theatre Program's Achievement Award for Scholarship.

"Farfan invites us into a new way of knowing and asks us to perform queerly as readers in the co-creation of her subjects. Performing Queer Modernism should be read not only for its scholarly intervention in the reading of queerness and modernism, but also, in the queer sociality of our shared history, as an act of intimacy and pleasure—an act that offers new ways of engaging with performance and the past." -- Fennella Kennedy, Dance Chronicle

"A very welcome addition to the growing body of work that stresses the centrality of both performance and queerness for our general understanding of modernism." -- Olga Taxidou, Studies in Theater and Performance

"Taken together, these short, skillfully constructed chapters present a thought-provoking overview of the various tropes and methodologies that queer and feminist theory can bring to the study of mod-ernist performance" -- Ben De Witte, Theatre Journal

"What makes this particular book inviting is the seamlessness with which contemporary queer theory is woven into Farfan's archival research. It is a valuable addition to any course on modern drama and/or queer performance his-tory and a compelling read for scholars of early twentieth-century theatre and dance." -- Helen Deborah Lewis, Theatre Survey

"Exceptionally well-documented, and illustrated with relevant production artifacts, this vibrant contribution to performance history through the dual lenses of modernist and queer theory is an informative, enjoyable, and often delightful read." -- David Pellegrini, New England Theatre Journal

"Where does one look for queer modernism? In her rich and compelling investigation, Penny Farfan finds examples in the interstices of disciplines and forms, genders and sexualities. Considering plays and performances, dance and bodies, uncanny ghostings and productive slippages, Farfan's crystalline prose, elegant insights, and multidisciplinary subjects and methods make for an illuminating, generative read."-- Jill Dolan, author of Utopia in Performance: Finding Hope at the Theater

"This book luminously reveals how queerness created modernism through a spinning prism of performances onstage and offstage, legitimate and illegitimate, embodied and literary. Like the turns of butch femme fatale Loie Fuller's Fire Dance, images and insights of one chapter linger as the next ones flash into view. Farfan's richly erudite, sinewy writing memorably captures the dense interweaving of sexual and aesthetic dissonance that circulated among audiences as well as performers and writers during this transformational era-and beyond."-- Kim Marra, Professor of Theatre Arts and American Studies, University of Iowa