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- 414-229-5650
- Curtin Hall 772
Aragorn Quinn
- Associate Professor, Global Studies (Japanese Program)
Education
PhD, Stanford University 2015
Courses Taught
- JAPAN 100 - Introduction to Japanese Literature
- JAPAN 331 - Reading Japanese Short Stories
- JAPAN 345 - Japanese News Media
- JAPAN 351 - Japanese Performance Traditions
- JAPAN 352 - Japanese Performance Traditions: Readings
- JAPAN 355 - Seminar in Japanese Literature: Tales of Futures Past
- JAPAN 361 - Translating Japanese Media
- JAPAN 500 - Japanese Writing and Research Methods
Research Interests
- Modern Japanese literature and performance
- Performance studies
- Translation theory
Books
Staging the Resistance: Performing the Politics of Translation in Modern Japan. Routledge Press, (2019).
Selected Publications
"The Double and Its Theater: Technologies of Performance in Hanakurabe senbonzakura." In Handbook of Performance in Japan, edited by Katherine Saltzman-Li, Diego Pellecchia, and Rina Tanaka. MHM Publishers, Tokyo, (Forthcoming 2025).
“Censoring the Emperor: The Debut Performance of The Mikado in Japan.” In The Palgrave Handbook of Theater Censorship, edited by Graham Saunders and Anne Etienne. Palgrave, (2024).
“Mediated Laugher and The Limits of Realism: Laughing Letter and the Kinodrama Experiment in 1930s Japanese Performance.” In Realisms in East Asian Performance, edited by Katherine Saltzman-Li and Jessica Nakamura. University of Michigan Press, (2023).
“Higoromo” by Asamatsu Ken (translation) in Vampiric: Tales of Blood and Roses from Japan, edited by Edward Lipsett. Kurodohan Press, (2019).
“The Sound of Liveness: The Zenshinza’s Shinsengumi: A Talkie Rensa-geki” In Association of Japanese Literary Studies. (Summer, 2016).