Areas of Expertise

Japanese theatre

Teaching Interests

Interculturalism, Performance studies, Beckett, translation

Research

Covid’s effect on traditional arts; lessons of dramaturgy from kyogen; directing cross-cultural, bilingual theatre productions; translation strategies for live performances

Representative Publications

A History of Japanese Theatre (Cambridge, 2016), editor.

“A kyogen actor’s ‘roles of passage’” in Situated Learning (John Singleton, ed)

Education

BA Haverford College, PA

MA, PhD New York University, Performance Studies

Previous Appointments

Ryukoku University, 1996-2023

Professional Associations

Association for Asian Performance; Associationo for Japanese Theatre Research