Poulton, Dr. Cody

Office: CLE C213
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Phone: 721-8707
Email: cpoulton@uvic.ca

[Japan]

(Meiji-era and contemporary Japanese literature, especially the work of Izumi Kyoka; traditional Japanese poetics and theatre; contemporary theatre.)

Mark Cody Poulton (PhD, U of T) has been teaching Japanese language, literature and theatre in the Department of Pacific and Asian Studies since 1988. His recent research has been in Japanese theatre, particularly of the modern period.

His recent publications include Spirits of Another Sort: The Plays of Izumi Kyôka (2001) and twenty entries on modern Japanese theatre for The Oxford Encyclopedia of Theatre and Performance (2003). He has also been active as a translator of kabuki and modern Japanese drama, for both publication and live stage productions in Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia and Japan.

In addition, he has been collaborating with Hiroko Noro on a number of projects using drama for Japanese language pedagogy. Dr. Poulton is currently working on two other book projects: A Beggar's Art: scripting modernity in Japanese drama, 1912-1933, and (with Mitsuya Mori and J. Thomas Rimer) The Columbia Anthology of Modern Japanese Drama. He is also interested in pilgrimage and the Kumano region of Japan.

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