Myron Myron M. Beasley lectures in the areas of Communication and Culture and Performance Studies. Myron's recent critical ethnographic work explores rituals of death and loss at specific sites in the African Diaspora. His work has led him to fieldwork in the United States, Morocco, Brazil and Haiti. His work as appeared in several academic journals including Text and Performance Quarterly and Performance Research. He is also an international curator (http://www.ghettobiennale.com/) and his installations have also appeared internationally, particularly his "Ritual, Sacred Spaces, and the Body: Men of African Descent and the Performance of Sexuality" at Performance International-PSi 6. He is currently on the faculty of Bates College in the programs of African American/American Cultural Studies where he teaching courses ranging from Cultural Politics to Food and Performance. He has been awarded, both nationally and internationally, for his outstanding teaching.