Stefka Mihaylova is Associate Professor of Theatre History and Performance Theory. Her book, Viewers in Distress: Race, Gender, Religion and Avant-Garde Performance at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century (University of Michigan Press, 2023), received an honorable mention for the Barnard Hewitt Award for Outstanding Research in Theatre History in 2024. She is the coeditor of Uncle Tom’s Cabins: The Transnational History of America’s Most Mutable Book (2018). Her research has appeared in Theatre Survey, NTQ, Contemporary Theatre Review, and book collections. She has worked as a production and literary dramaturge.