Sherril Dodds is Professor of Dance at Temple University. Her books include Dance on Screen, Dancing on the Canon, Bodies of Sound (co-edited with Susan C. Cook), The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Competition, and The Bloomsbury Companion to Dance Studies. She has been a visiting scholar at Trondheim University in Norway, Griffith University in Australia, Stanford University in the USA, and Blaise-Pascal University in France. She was awarded the 2015 Gertrude Lippincott prize for her article,
"""Professor Dodd's luminous and incisive imagination makes us think seriously about that most emotive part of the dancing body: the face. This book is a major and original contribution to Dance studies and should open up a bountiful new area of scholarship in the field."" * Pallabi Chakravorty, Stephen Lang Professor of Performing Arts, Department of Music and Dance, Swarthmore College *"