John Rouse (MFA, Temple University; PhD, Stanford University) is the author of Brecht and the West German Theatre and over fifty shorter publications on contemporary German theatre and on theatre theory. Not the Other Avant-Garde, an anthology he coedited with James Harding was published by University of Michigan Press in Spring 2006. He is a past Editor and current Associate Editor of Theatre Journal, and an Editor of TheatreForum.

He currently teaches seminars on theatre historiography, German theatre, and the Avant-Garde. He is also part of the interdepartmental German Studies Program and the European Studies faculty group. He also has directed numerous productions at UCSD and elsewhere.