About

Eero Laine has published widely on topics at the intersections of theatre, labor, sport, and performance. He is part of various international research cohorts developing collaborative methodologies for performance scholarship. This work stems from the Performing Ends initiative and network (performingends.com), which is a multimodal and international group of performance studies practitioners and scholars working to reconsider research methodologies in the arts amidst emerging and enduring crises and other apparent ends.

Eero is currently developing research that examines performances of wilderness and waterways. His project “Performing International Wilderness” is supported by the University at Buffalo Office of International Education and the Vice President for Research and Economic Development. He is one of the project leaders of the Great Lakes Climate Theatre Initiative, which works across science and the arts to consider climate futures in Western New York and beyond.

Eero is a former department chair for Theatre and Dance and has also served as director of graduate studies and director of theatre studies. He supervises PhD and MA research and sits on MFA thesis committees. He leads graduate courses in theatre and performance studies, directs for the department production season, and teaches across the dramatic literature and theatre history curriculum.

Eero is a co-editor of Lateral (csalateral.org), the journal of the Cultural Studies Association.