Virginie Magnat is Associate Professor of Performance at the University of British Columbia. She works at the intersection of performances studies, cultural anthropology, experimental ethnography, and Indigenous research methodologies. Her monograph Grotowski, Women, and Contemporary Performance: Meetings with Remarkable Women (Routledge 2014) http://www.routledge.com/9780415813594 and its companion documentary film series, featured on the Routledge Performance Archive, are grounded in four years of embodied research and multi-sited fieldwork supported by two major research grants from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Her current research project, also funded by two SSHRC grants, explores the performative power of vocality envisioned as a vital source of human creativity and an embodied mode of cognition grounded in process, practice, and place, as well as a form of social and political agency. This project will culminate in a monograph contracted by Routledge. Her publications have appeared in North American and international scholarly journals as well as edited collections in the fields of theatre and performance studies, anthropology, ethnomusicology, sociology, qualitative inquiry, and literary criticism in English, French, Polish, Italian, and Spanish.