Torsten Jost is Head of International Research Cooperation at EXC 2020, where he also conducts postdoctoral research on the epistemic dimensions of spectatorial practices and cultures. He teaches in the Theatre and Performance Studies programme at Freie Universität Berlin and was a guest lecturer at the Shanghai Theatre Academy in 2018. He has co-edited several books on theatre and performance with Erika Fischer-Lichte and others, including The Politics of Interweaving Performance Cultures (Routledge, 2014), Theatrical Speech Acts (2020), Dramaturgies of Interweaving (2021), Entangled Performance Histories (2023), Performance Cultures as Epistemic Cultures, Vols. I & II (2023) and The Routledge Companion to Performance-Related Concepts in Non-European Languages (2024). Together with Tian Mansha, a prominent performer and director of Chuanju (Sichuan opera), Jost also co-edited the volume Regiekunst heute: Stimmen und Positionen aus China (Alexander, 2018; available in German and Chinese, an English version is in preparation), which explores the diverse practices, pedagogies and philosophies of theatre directing in China. Jost is currently working on his second monograph on spectating as epistemic practice.