About Author

Lynn Matluck Brooks is the Arthur and Katherine Shadek Humanities Professor who founded the Dance Program at Franklin & Marshall College in 1984. She holds degrees from the University of Wisconsin and Temple University. She has held grants from the Fulbright/Hayes Commission, the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Brooks has been a performance reviewer for Dance Magazine, editor of Dance Research Journal, and coeditor of Dance Chronicle. She is author of four books and many articles. In 2007, Brooks was awarded the Bradley R. Dewey Award for Outstanding Scholarship at Franklin & Marshall.