Rate My Professor Shinko Kagaya

Kagaya's academic interests center on Japanese performing arts, literatures, and cultures, with emphasis on performance studies and Japanese language pedagogy, particularly the cross-cultural reception of Noh and Kyogen theatre. Notable publications encompass 'Noh and Muromachi culture' (co-authored with Hiroko Miura) in A History of Japanese Theatre (Cambridge University Press, 2016); 'Nôgaku during the U.S. Occupation of Japan, 1945-1952' in Rising From the Flames: The Rebirth of Theatre in Occupied Japan (Lexington Books, 2009); 'Dancing on a moving train: Nô between two wars' in Nô Theatre Transversal (Iudicium Verlag, 2008); 'Nô Performances in Gaichi' in Asian Theatre Journal (2001); and 'Western Audiences and the Emergent Reorientation of Meiji Nô' in Japanese Theatre and the International Stage (Brill, 2000). She has contributed translations and adaptations, including Kyogen plays for the Japan Cultural Expo and a Japanese adaptation of Murasaki’s Moon for the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 2019. At Williams College, she teaches courses such as Elementary Japanese, The Sounds of Language: An Introduction to Phonetics and Phonology, and Japanese Food Culture in a Global Context. Her scholarship advances understanding of Japanese traditional theatre's adaptation in modern and international contexts.