Dr Mischa Twitchin is a senior lecturer in the Theatre and Performance Department, at Goldsmiths, University of London: https://www.gold.ac.uk/theatre-performance/staff/twitchin-dr-mischa/. He was a British Academy post-doctoral fellow (2014–17) and has contributed chapters to several collected volumes, as well as articles in journals such as Memory Studies, Contemporary Theatre Review and Performance Research (an issue of which, ‘On Animism’, 24:6, he also co-edited). His book, The Theatre of Death: The Uncanny in Mimesis: Tadeusz Kantor, Aby Warburg and an Iconology of the Actor (2016) is published by Palgrave Macmillan in their Performance Philosophy series; examples of his own performance- and essay-films can be seen on Vimeo: http://vimeo.com/user13124826/videos.
Contact: Theatre and Performance Department, Goldsmiths, University of London, Lewisham Way, New Cross, London, SE14 6NW, UK.
