Mark Pizzato, MFA, PhD, is Professor of Theatre at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte (USA), where he also teaches interdisciplinary film, arts, architecture, and religion courses. He has authored six previous books: Mapping Global Theatre Histories (2019), Beast-People Onscreen and in Your Brain: The Evolution of Animal-Humans from Prehistoric Cave Art to Modern Movies (2016), Inner Theatres of Good and Evil: The Mind's Staging of Gods, Angels and Devils (2011), Ghosts of Theatre and Cinema in the Brain (2006), Theatres of Human Sacrifice: From Ancient Ritual to Screen Violence (2005), and Edges of Loss: From Modern Drama to Postmodern Theory (1998). He also co-edited, with Lisa K. Perdigao, Death in American Texts and Performances: Corpses, Ghosts, and the Reanimated Dead (2010).
