Katherine Mezur is a Lecturer in the Department of Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley, Research Associate, San Francisco Museum of Performance + Design, dramaturg/director/choreographer. Publications: Beautiful Boys/Outlaw Bodies: Devising Kabuki Female-likeness (Palgrave 2005), Sensuous Politics: Performing Modernities in East Asia (with Emily Wilcox) forthcoming; chapter “dumbtype’s Wonder Women: Corporeal Affect and Medial Precarity,” the dumbtype Workbook, eds. Fujii, Eckersall, Performance Research Monograph, 2018, “At Risk: Butoh’s Genders,” for The Routledge Companion for Butoh, Baird, Candelario, 2017; Cute Mutant Girls; Performing Sweet and Deviant in Contemporary Japan,2018. Her research focuses on Asia Pacific performance and its diaspora, particularly traditional and contemporary theatre practices, popular cultures, and gender/race politics in transnational contexts.
