Kyoko Iwaki

Kyoko Iwaki is recognized as a specialist in Japanese contemporary theatre and performance who conducts multi- and interdisciplinary research in areas such as political theatres in post-catastrophe society, new materialism and nonhuman philosophy including animal and cyborg studies, Asian postcolonialism and intercultural theatre, critical race theory and transnationalism, and ritual and spirituality with a strong investment in Buddhism.

Kyoko’s recent publications include: ‘Oscillation and Regeneration: The Temporal Aesthetics of Sankai Juku’ in The Routledge Companion to Butoh Performance (2018); ‘The Politics of the Senses: Takayama Akira’s Atomized Theatre after Fukushima’ in Fukushima and the Arts: Negotiating Nuclear Disaster (Routledge, 2016); and ‘Japanese Theatre after Fukushima: Okada Toshiki’s Current Location,’ New Theatre Quarterly, Cambridge University Press (2015). The book proposal of her monograph titled Gentle Cosmos: The Nonhuman Japanese Dramaturgy after Fukushima has just been sent to Duke University Press and have received good response.