Teemu Paavolainen is a postdoctoral fellow at the Centre for Practice as Research in Theatre, University of Tampere, currently completing a research monograph provisionally titled Texture: Theatricality and Performativity from a Dramaturgical Perspective. His Theatre/Ecology/Cognition: Theorizing Performer-Object Interaction in Grotowski, Kantor, and Meyerhold was published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2012.