Professor Mark Franko FBA
- Fellow type
- International Fellow
- Year elected
- 2025
- Subjects
- Media, performance and communications
- Sections
- Culture, Media and Performance
Summary
Mark Franko is a scholar of dance and literature specializing in the history and theory of French court ballet from the Renaissance to the Baroque and dance modernism in transnational perspective. He received his PhD in French and romance philology from Columbia University. He is founding editor of the Oxford Studies in Dance Theory book series and served as editor of Dance Research Journal (2009-2017). He also edited The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Reenactment (2017) and Ritual and Event: Interdisciplinary Perspectives (2007), and co-edited Acting on the Past: Historical Performance Across the Disciplines (2000). Franko's research has been supported by the American Council of Learned Societies, American Philosophical Foundation, Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities, France/Berkeley Fund; UC Fellows Faculty Fellowship in the Humanities; National Endowment for the Humanities Research Fellowship; and John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship. He danced professionally for the Paul Sanasardo Dance Company and Movement Research (the Oskar Schlemmer Bauhaus Dances) forming his own company, NovAntiqua, in 1985. His choreography has been produced at Lincoln Center Out-of-Doors Festival, Berlin Werkstatt Festival, Getty Center, Montpellier Opera, Toulon Art Museum, Akademie der Künste (Berlin), Mozarteum (Salzburg), Grove Theater (London), Stuk Festival (Leuven), Centro Cultural San Martin (Buenos Aires), among other New York and the Bay Area venues.
Current post
Boyer College of Music and Dance Temple University Laura H. Carnell Professor of Dance
Past appointments
Middlesex University Professor in Performance and Visual Studies
2013 - 2015
Bard College Visiting Professor of Humanities and Performing Arts
2008 - 2009
Freie Universität Berlin Valeska Gert Visiting Professor of Dance and Performance Institut für Theaterwissenschaft
2008 -
Université de Nice Sophia-Antipolis Département Danse Visiting Professor
2005 -
Columbia University Visiting Professor School of the Arts
2004 -
Université Paris 8-Vincennes Département Danse Visiting Professor
2001 -
New York University Visiting Professor, Tisch School of the Arts Performance Studies
1993 - 1994
University of California, Santa Cruz, Emeritus Professor of Dance, Theater Arts Department
1991 - 2012
Purdue University French Department Associate Professor
1990 - 1991
Princeton University French Department Assistant Professor
1983 -
Université Paul Valéry (Faculté de Montpellier 3), Lettres françaises Maître Assistant Associé
1981 - 1982