Patrick Anderson is an assistant professor in the department of Communication at the University of California, San Diego, where he is also an affiliate of the programs in Ethnic Studies and Critical Gender Studies. Anderson works at the interstices of performance studies and cultural studies, focusing in particular on the constitutive role of violence, mortality, and pain in the production and experience of political subjectivity. His work-in-progress includes a mixed-genre book on illness and memory, and an historical study of the inter-relationships between architecture, ophthalmology, and empathy.

Anderson has worked as a director and actor in theater and film; as an anthropologist in Sri Lanka, Chicago, and New Mexico; and as an activist and organizer for anti-war groups in Sri Lanka, for the Berkeley Free Clinic in California, and for HIV/AIDS groups in various locations in the United States. He holds a PhD in Performance Studies, with a Designated Emphasis in Women, Gender, and Sexuality, from the University of California, Berkeley.

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