Marc James Léger is coeditor of Zapantera Negra: An Artistic Encounter Between the Black Panthers and the Zapatistas, and an independent scholar based in Montreal. His essays in art criticism and cultural theory have appeared in Afterimage, Art Journal, C Magazine, Etc, FUSE, Inter, Parachute, Journal of Aesthetics and Protest, Journal of Canadian Studies, Canadian Journal of Film Studies, RACAR, Third Text, and Creative Industries Journal. He is editor of the collected writings and interviews of Bruce Barber in Performance, [Performance] and Performers (YYZBBOKS, 2007) and Littoral Art and Communicative Action (Common Ground, 2013). He is also editor of Culture and Contestation in the New Century (Intellect, 2011), a series of A essays on radical cultural practice, creative industries, and neoliberal governmentality. He is author of Brave New Avant Garde: Essays on Contemporary Art and Politics (2012) and The Neoliberal Undead: Essays on Contemporary Art and Politics (2013), both published by Zero Books. Other projects include the edited text The Idea of the Avant Garde—And What It Means Today (Manchester University Press, 2014) as well as Drive in Cinema: Essays on Film, Theory and Politics (Intellect, 2015). Léger has exhibited artwork in Canada, the US, and the UK.