A scholar and artist, Dr. Ioana B. Jucan 
works across the fields of theatre and performance studies, media studies, and philosophy. Her current research follows several different yet intersecting threads: global capitalism's mechanisms of simulation and dissimulation; knowledge and value production in the age of "Big Data" and "post-truth"; and performance, authenticity, and disinformation. She is a member of the Beyond Verification international team linked to the Digital Democracies Group at Simon Fraser University. Her scholarly writing has appeared in journals (Performance Philosophy; TDR: The Drama Review; parallax; Revista Caracteres; and others) and edited volumes (Remain; Hello, I'm ELIZA; Adorno and Performance; This and That -- Essays in Live Art and Performance Studies). Jucan’s artistic work spans theatre directing, playwriting, and multimedia performance, and has been performed internationally. Several of her plays are collected in her book, Cosmology of Worlds Apart (NY: O Balthazar Press, 2017). Jucan holds a PhD in Theatre and Performance Studies from Brown University, and is currently an Assistant Professor in the Marlboro Institute for Liberal Arts and Interdisciplinary Studies and Business of Creative Enterprises at Emerson College.
As part of the festival, Ioana will be leading the workshop Beyond Disinformation: Performance & Authenticity.