Notes on Contributors
Gunhild Borggreen is Associate Professor at Department of Arts and Cultural Studies at University of Copenhagen, and her research focuses on modern and contemporary visual arts from Japan, particularly within the areas of gender issues, national identity and performance studies.
Mika Eglinton is a JSPS researcher based in Tokyo and London, involved in the creation of theatre as a translator, dramaturg and critic. Her research interests and publications include work on issues of reception and reconstruction of Shakespeare in non-native English speaking countries.
Zack Fuller is in the doctoral program in theatre at CUNY Graduate Center. His academic interests include cross-cultural east/west performance and medieval European theatre.
Michael Hornblow is a New Zealand-born writer, dancer and filmmaker currently living in Melbourne. His research interests include; performance and the body, architecture, film and video, emergence and complexity, contemporary art and the history of the avant-garde.
Ikeuchi Yasuko teaches Theatre Arts and Gender Studies at Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto, Japan. She authored a book, Femizumu to Gendaiengeki (Feminism and Contemporary Theatre, 1994), translated Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s Dictée (into Japanese, 2003), and edited with Nishi Masahiko Ikyo no Shintai (Being in Exile – on Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, 2006).
Lisa Kuly is a Ph.D. student in Asian Religions at Cornell University. Next year, she will travel to Kyoto as a Fulbright Graduate Research Fellow to conduct dissertation research on rituals of safe childbirth.
Vera Mackie is ARC Professorial Research Fellow in History at the University of Melbourne where she is working on ‘A Cultural History of the Body in Modern Japan.’
Dr Jonathan Marshall is a Research Fellow at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts, Edith Cowan University, and contributing editor for RealTime Australia.
Shannon C. Moore received her M.A. in Asian Studies from the University of Texas. She is currently pursuing Archival and Curatorial Studies.
M. Cody Poulton teaches Japanese literature and theatre in the Department of Pacific and Asian Studies, University of Victoria, Canada. Recent publications include Spirits of Another Sort: The Plays of Izumi Kyōka (2001) and twenty entries on modern Japanese theatre for The Oxford Encyclopaedia of Theatre and Performance (2003).
Satô Makoto is a playwright and director active in Japanese theatre since the 1950s. He was a founder of the Black Tent Theatre and more recently the first artistic director of the Setagaya Public Theatre. He is author of many well-known plays and continues to work with Black Tent and many other groups.
Dr Yuji Sone is a postdoctoral research fellow at UNSW. Sone’s current research focuses on notions of intermediation in relation to media/technology-based performance.
Uchino Tadashi is a Professor of theatre studies at the University of Tokyo. His research interests include Japanese and American theatre and performance.
Midori Yoshimoto is Assistant Professor of Art History and Gallery Director at New Jersey City University. Her dissertation, ‘Into Performance: Japanese Women Artists in New York, 1955-75,’ has been recently published by the Rutgers University Press.