Mark Franko

Mark Franko is an American dance historian, choreographer, and academic. He is an International Fellow of the British Academy and serves as the Laura H. Carnell Professor of Dance at Temple University, where he directs the Institute of Dance Scholarship. Known for bridging politics, psychoanalysis, and performance theory, his scholarship examines Baroque dance and modern/postmodern dance in relation to critical theory and cultural history, and is widely cited in dance studies. He has authored nine books published by academic presses such as Cambridge, Indiana, Wesleyan, Oxford, and Bloomsbury, and has edited or founded key journals and book series in the field. Provided by Wikipedia