Mike Sell’s essay “Blackface and the Black Arts Movement” will be featured in a special issue of TDR dedicated to revisionary perspectives on blackface performance, edited by Tracy Davis and Catherine Cole. His essay "Avant-Garde/Roma: A Critical History of Bohemianism and Cultural Politics" will be part of We Roma: A Critical Reader in Contemporary Art, editors Daniel Baker and Maria Jlavajova (BAK: Basis Voor Actuele Kunst and Post Editions). He is currently co-writing a book on the avant-garde with James Harding and collaborating on an experimental “alternative finder’s guide” with Indiana University of Pennsylvania emerita professor and poet Rosaly Roffman on the subject of her archives.

Judith Sebesta recently began a position as Director of Distance Learning for the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board in Austin. In addition to overseeing all distance education programs at public institutions of higher education in Texas, she will be involved in bill analysis for the state legislature as well as program and grant development and policy analysis.

Magda Romanska was awarded tenure at Emerson College in Boston, MA. Her two books The Post-traumatic Theatre of Grotowski and Kantor and Boguslaw Schaeffer: An Anthology were released in 2012.

Carol Martin published Theatre of the Real (2013) in Janelle Reinelt and Brian Singleton's award winning series 'Studies in International Performance' published by Palgrave MacMillan. Published in the same series, her anthology Dramaturgy of the Real was released in paper in the fall of 2012. Martin was an invited guest at the Malta Festival in Poznan, Poland in July and at The Lowry in Manchester, England for the opening of The Tin Ring, a one-woman show created from the memoir of Zdenka Fantlova, a Holocaust survivor, in September.

Virginie Magnat's monograph Grotowski, Women, and Contemporary Performance: Meetings with Remarkable Women is forthcoming with Routledge in July 2013 (http://www.routledge.com/books/search/author/virginie_magnat/). Grounded in the author's embodied research funded by two major grants, this book and its companion documentary film series, featured on the newly launched Routledge Performance Archive (http://www.routledgeperformancearchive.com), explore the artistic journeys and current creative practices of women from different cultures and generations who worked with Grotowski during the theatrical and post-theatrical periods of his cross-cultural investigation of performance.