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Christina McMahon is an associate professor in the Theater and Dance Department at the University of California-Santa Barbara. Her first book, Recasting Transnationalism through Performance: Theatre Festivals in Cape Verde, Mozambique, and Brazil, was recently published by Palgrave Macmillan in the award-winning "Studies in International Performance" series. She has published articles in Theatre Survey, Theatre Research International, Theatre History Studies, the Luso-Brazilian Review, and Latin American Theatre Review. She is a past recipient of the IFTR New Scholar's Prize (2007) and a Fulbright-Hays grant. Broadly speaking, her research interests encompass race and representation, African theater and performance studies, postcolonialism in the Lusophone world, globalization, ethnography, and gender and sexuality in performance. Her current book project focuses on best practices for teaching and producing African theatre in the West. She is a guest co-editor of a forthcoming special issue of the journal Research in African Literatures on Ghanaian author Ama Ata Aidoo. Christina is also a creative writer and committed meditator, and is interested in mindfulness as a creative and pedagogical tool. She is a new contributor to the magazine Conscious Lifestyle. Her first play, Stand By: Meditations on Africa and the Afterlife, received a reading in the LAUNCHPAD program for new play development at UCSB in 2014.