Klaus van den Berg (Ph.D. Indiana University) is Associate Professor in the Department of Theatre at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville where he teaches theatre history, theory, and dramaturgy on both undergraduate and graduate levels. Areas of study include cultural conceptions of space, nineteenth and early twentieth-century Scandinavian drama, postmodern theory and late twentieth-century intercultural performance. He has published essays in books on August Strindberg, Richard Wagner, George Tabori, and Walter Benjamin and essays for Theatre Research International, Theatre Survey, Theatre Journal, Brecht Yearbook, Monatshefte, Bühnentechnische Rundschau. He is regularly contributing as a performance critic to Theatre Journal and Western European Stages. He is currently working on a book on Walter Benjamin's image theory and performances in twentieth-century German theatre. He is also the resident dramaturg for the Clarence Brown Theatre, a professional LORT company located in Knoxville, specializing in stage adaptations and translations. For the Clarence Brown Theatre he has been the production dramaturg for Mein Kampf, The Seagull, Arcadia, The Oedipus/Caligula Project, The Brecht File, Nora, Buried Child, Metamorphoses, Trojan Women, Prince of Homburg, Triumph of Love, and Romeo and Juliet. In addition to working at the Clarence Brown he has also dramaturged shows and projects for 7Stages in Atlanta, the American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco, and the New Jersey Shakespeare Theatre in Madison (NJ).