Philip Auslander is a professor of performance studies and popular musicology in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication at the Georgia Institute of Technology (Atlanta, Georgia, US). He writes on music, performance, and visual art, and is the author of numerous articles and seven books, including Performing Glam Rock: Gender and Theatricality in Popular Music, In Concert: Performing Musical Persona, and three editions of Liveness: Performance in a Mediatized Culture. Dr. Blues, a short film Auslander wrote, produced, and acted in, premiered at the Peachtree Village International Film Festival in Atlanta in 2019.