Cody Poulton
Fellow
Cody Poulton is Professor of Japanese literature and theater in the Department of Pacific and Asian Studies at the University of Victoria, Canada, where he has taught since 1988. He is the author of Spirits of Another Sort: The Plays of Izumi Kyōka (Michigan UP, 2001) and A Beggar’s Art: Scripting Modernity in Japanese Drama, 1900-1930 (Hawaii UP, 2010). He is co-editor of: with Zdenka Svarcova, Dreams and Shadows: Tanizaki and Japanese Poetics in Prague—Essays in Honour of Anthony V. Liman. (Prague: Karolinum, 2007); with Katsuhiko Endo and Richard King, Sino-Japanese Transculturation: from the late nineteenth century to the end of the Pacific War (Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books, 2011); and, with Mitsuya Mori and J. Thomas Rimer, The Columbia Anthology of Modern Japanese Drama (Columbia UP, 2014). He has also translated kabuki and contemporary Japanese drama for such multivolume series as Kabuki Plays on Stage (Hawaii UP, 2002-03) and Half a Century of Japanese Theater (Kinokuniya Shoten, 1999-2009).
THIS AUTHOR WROTE
January 20, 2016
In this interview, IRC-Fellow Cody Poulton, Professor of Japanese literature and theater in the Department of Pacific and Asian Studies at the University of Victoria, Canada, talks about his interests in and current research on drama and theater in Japan. After giving a short overview on the development of his research in the past twenty years, Poulton describes the scope and aims of his current research project in Berlin, which investigates how humanity’s place in the world is conceived of and represented in contemporary theater and performance in Japan.
