In 1979 Barba founded the International School of Theatre Anthropology (ISTA). He is on the advisory boards of scholarly journals such as "The Drama Review", "Performance Research", "New Theatre Quarterly", "Teatro e Storia" and "Teatrología". Among his most recent publications, translated into several different languages, are "The Paper Canoe" (Routledge), "Theatre: Solitude, Craft, Revolt" (Black Mountain Press), "Land of Ashes and Diamonds: My Apprenticeship in Poland", 26 letters from Jerzy Grotowski to Barba (Black Mountain Press) and, in collaboration with Nicola Savarese, "The Secret Art of the Performer" and the revised and updated version of "A Dictionary of Theatre Anthropology" (Centre for Performance Research/Routledge).