Professor für Theaterwissenschaft an der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München und Präsident der „International Federation for Theatre Research“. Arbeitsschwerpunkte und Veröffentlichungen zum interkulturellen und postkolonialen Theater sowie zur Propädeutik des Fachs: Decolonizing the Stage: Theatrical syncretism and postcolonial drama (Clarendon Press 1999); Einführung in die Theaterwissenschaft (5. Auflage, Erich Schmidt Verlag 2014); Pacific Performances: Theatricality and Cross-Cultural Encounter in the South Seas (Palgrave Macmillan 2007); Cambridge Introduction to Theatre Studies (Cambridge University Press 2008); The theatrical public sphere (Cambridge University Press 2014). Er leitet das DFG-Forschungsprojekt „Global Theatre Histories“.

holds the chair in theatre studies at LMU Munich. His publications include Decolonizing the Stage: Theatrical syncretism and postcolonial drama, (Clarendon Press 1999); Pacific Performances: Theatricality and Cross-Cultural Encounter in the South Seas (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007); Cambridge Introduction to Theatre Studies (CUP 2008); The theatrical public sphere (CUP 2014). He is principal investigator of the ERC Advanced Grant “Developing Theatre: Building Expert Networks for Theatre in Emerging Countries after 1945”.