Katherine Mezur

Assistant Professor
Theory and Criticism

206-221-5772
kmezur@u.washington.edu

Assistant Professor Katherine Mezur is a feminist scholar, director, and choreographer whose research focuses on gender studies, corporeality and media, and transnational performance in the Asia Pacific region. She holds a Ph.D. in Theatre and Dance, emphasis on Asian Performance, from the University of Hawai'i at Manoa, an MA in Dance (Mills College) and a BA in Film and Photography (Hampshire College). She is author of Beautiful Boys/Outlaw Bodies: Devising Female-likeness on the Kabuki Stage (Palgrave Macmillan, 2005), a history of the kabuki female gender performance and its contemporary practices, aesthetics, and politics. Her current project, Cute Mutant Girls: Remapping the Female Body in Contemporary Japanese Performance, focuses on contemporary Japanese women choreographers/directors, performers, and visual artists. She is one of the team of engineers and artists on an NSF (National Science Foundation) grant, "SGER: Collaborative Research: Interactive Choreography in 3D Tele-Immersive Spaces - Expanding Human Perception through Creative Practice," for 2007-08. Her research interests include collaborative "performance as research" projects working with live performance and new media in transnational contexts. She has taught at CAL Arts, Georgetown University, Mills College, and McGill University.

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