Ruth Hellier-Tinoco (PhD) is a professor and creative artist based in the Department of Music, with affiliations in Theater and Dance, Feminist Studies and Latin American and Iberian Studies. She teaches courses on creativity, experimental performance and memory; the politics-poetics of performance in Mexico and Europe; environmental and community arts; and embodied vocality. Her most recent book is Performing Palimpsest Bodies: Postmemory Theatre Experiments in Mexico (Intellect and University of Chicago Press, 2019). Previous book publications are Embodying Mexico: Tourism, Nationalism, and Performance (Oxford University Press, 2010); and Women Singers in Global Contexts: Music, Biography, Identity, ed. (University of Illinois Press, 2013). She is editor of the multidisciplinary journal Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos (UC Press).