Bruce Burningham is Chair of the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures and is an affiliate faculty member of the School of Theatre. He specializes in medieval and early modern Spanish and Latin American literature, Hispanic theatre, and performance theory. He is the author of Radical Theatricality: Jongleuresque Performance on the Early Spanish Stage (Purdue UP, 2007) and Tilting Cervantes: Baroque Reflections on Postmodern Culture (Vanderbilt UP, 2008). He has also published in Theatre Journal, Bulletin of the Comediantes, and Comedia Performance (among others). He is a recipient of an Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship and a National Endowment for the Humanities grant. He is Editor of Cervantes, the official journal of the Cervantes Society of America. He also serves as a member of the Board of Directors of the Association for Hispanic Classical Theater, and as a delegate to the Modern Language Association's Division on 16th- and 17th-Century Spanish Drama. His acting credits include the role of "Mario" in Antonio Skármeta's Burning Patience.