A PROFESSOR from the De La Salle University was named as the new president of the Performance Studies International.

Dr. Jazmin Llana is the first person from the Global Majority to take on the post.

She is also the first one to come from outside the traditional centers of the field.

PSI is a premier professional association of academics, artists, and activists working in the field of performance, a dynamic field of encounters where scholarly and artistic research are engaged with a wide variety of topics and strongly rooted in the interaction between theory and practice.

Since its foundation in 1997 and its first conference in 1995, PSI has been an avenue for interdisciplinary exchange, communication, and collaboration in the field of Performance Studies.

Llana is a professor of drama, theatre, and performance studies at the Department of Literature, De La Salle University.

She has doctorate degree at Aberystwyth University, UK, and MA Theatre Arts at UP Diliman. Her research interests are in the areas of religion and performance, cultural performance, performance and politics, and the radical deployments of performance as method.