Tancredi Gusman is Associate Professor in Theater and Performance Studies at Tor Vergata University of Rome. He is a member of the scientific advisory board of the Interuniversity Research Centre for the Memory of the Performing Arts (MAP).  Previously, he was a researcher at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts and was a member of the project Collecting the Ephemeral: Prerequisites and Possibilities for Making Performance Art Last funded by the SNSF. From 2017 to 2019 he led the Marie Skłodowska-Curie project Between Evidence and Representation: History of Performance Art Documentation from 1970 to 1977 (EU-Horizon 2020) at the Freie Universität Berlin. He translated the Italian edition of Erika Fischer-Lichte’s The Transformative Power of Performance and published the monograph The Harp and the Sling: Kerr, Ihering, and the German Theatre Criticism from the End of the Nineteenth Century to National Socialism (Serra 2016). He is the editor of the volume Reconstructing Performance Art: Practices of Historicization, Documentation and Representation (Routledge 2023).

Tancredi Gusman è professore associato in Discipline dello Spettacolo presso l'Università degli Studi di Roma Tor Vergata. È membro del consiglio scientifico di MAP - Centro Interuniversitario di Ricerca per la Memoria delle Arti Performative. In precedenza è stato ricercatore presso la Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts e membro del progetto Collecting the Ephemeral: Prerequisites and Possibilities for Making Performance Art Last, finanziato dall’SNSF. Dal 2017 al 2019 ha diretto il progetto Marie Skłodowska-Curie Between Evidence and Representation: History of Performance Art Documentation from 1970 to 1977 (EU-Horizon 2020) presso la Freie Universität di Berlino. Ha tradotto e curato l’Estetica del Performativo di Erika Fischer-Lichte (Carocci 2014) e ha pubblicato la monografia L’arpa e la fionda. Kerr, Ihering e la critica teatrale tedesca tra fine Ottocento e il nazionalsocialismo (Serra 2016). È curatore del volume Reconstructing Performance Art: Practices of Historicization, Documentation and Representation (Routledge 2023).