Loren Kruger is a South African academic who taught at the University of Chicago from 1986 to 2024 and has written extensively on theatre, comparative literature, and urban studies.
Loren Kruger's studies have focused on literature, theatre, and performing arts in various languages including Afrikaans, French, German, Spanish, and Zulu.
[2][3] Kruger's first book, The National Stage: Theatre and Cultural Legitimation in England, France, and America, was published by the University of Chicago Press in 1992.
[4][5] In 2004, Cambridge University Press published her book, Post-Imperial Brecht: Politics and Performance, South and East, which discusses Bertolt Brecht, links between the Global South and the Soviet empire, and Cold War-era imperialism.
[6] It won the Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literary Study from the Modern Language Association.