From Credo:

Coco Fusco (1960-)

A Cuban American essayist and multimedia artist, born in 1960, and raised in New York City, Coco Fusco has created works produced in theaters and open spaces nationally and internationally—not only on stages but at such art biennials as those of Medellín, Colombia; London, England; Sydney, Australia; and Johannesburg, South Africa. Fusco earned a B.A. in literature and society/semiotics from Brown University (1982) and an M.A. in Modern thought and literature from Stanford University (1985); in addition she worked toward a Ph.D. in visual culture at Middlesex University in England. She has published essays and commentary in The Nation, The Los Angeles Times, The Village Voice, and elsewhere, and three collections of her writing were published as English Is Broken Here (1995), which was named Critics' Choice by the American Educational Studies Association; The Bodies that Were Not Ours and Other Writings (2001); and A Field Guide for Female Interrogators (2008), an at times tongue-in-cheek, but otherwise dead-serious assemblage of texts, performance and illustrations supposedly documenting her undercover spying at a military training camp and discoveries of anti-feminist documents and plans of the FBI, among other authorities, along with her criticism of torture and inhumanity at Abu Ghraib in Iraq and Guantanamo prison camp in Cuba.

She is the editor-compiler of Corpus Dilecti: Performance Art of the Americas (1999) and Only Skin Deep: Changing Visions of the American Self (2003). She has also produced videos for broadcast television, including The Couple in the Cage,Pochonovela, and Havana Mostmodern: The New Cuban Art. In 1993, Fusco collaborated with Guillermo Gómez-Peña on a documentary about caged Amerindians, The Couple in the Cage, which has been shown in more than two hundred venues around the world. A winner of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, Arts International, and The New York Foundation for the Arts, she is also the winner of the Herb Alpert Award for the Arts (2003). Fusco is a tenured associate professor at Columbia University's School of the Arts. She serves on the Editorial Board of the Performance Research Journal.