Jacqueline Bixler, Alumni Distinguished Professor in the Department of Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures, was appointed director of the School of Performing Arts.

In addition, Bixler published “Traveling Theatre: From County Kerry and Stones in His Pockets to the ‘eXtras’ of Chiconcuac,” Ilha do Desterro (Brazil) 73.2 (2020): 49–62; and “Performance, poesía y un pasado que no muere en la Plaza de Tlatelolco: Auxilio: Au Secours” [Performance, Poetry, and a Past that Never Dies in the Plaza of Tlatelolco: Help: Help], Revista de Investigación Teatral 10.16 (2019): 4–26.