MOTOHASHI Tetsuya [Japan]

Ted Motohashi is Professor Emeritus of Cultural Studies at the Tokyo University of Economics. He received his D.Phil. in Literature from the University of York, UK in 1995. He is the incumbent president of the Japan Section of the International Association of Theatre Critics. His publications include several books on drama, cultural and postcolonial studies, and most recently ‘“Our Perdita is found”: The Politics of Trust and Risk in The Winter’s Tale’ in Shakespeare and the Political edited by Rita Banerjee and Yilin Chen (Bloomsbury, 2024).

He is now preparing for two books in English (co-written with Tomoka Tsukamoto) on Japanese theatre: Between the Human and the Non-Human: The Theatre of Miyagi Satoshi in the Anthropocene (Bloomsbury, forthcoming); Japanese Shakespeares in the Anthropocene: From Colonial Modernity to Postcolonial Afterlife (Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming). He is a leading translator into Japanese of works by Homi Bhabha, Gayatri Spivak, Judith Butler, Noam Chomsky, Arundhati Roy, Rey Chow, among others.

Zhou Yan [China]

First class playwright.Selected for the Ministry of Culture and Tourism’s "Thousand Talents Program" for Opera Practitioners, and honored in Jiangsu Province’s "333 High-Level Talent Training Project".

She was Named among the first cohort of "Outstanding Young Artists of the Purple Gold Arts & Culture Program", and recognized as a Key Cultural Talent in Suzhou’s "Gusu Propaganda & Culture Program" and an Outstanding Mid-Career Literary & Artistic Worker in Suzhou.

Kim Juyeon [Korea]

Majored in Russian literature at Korea University and worked for six years as a theater journalist at , a leading monthly performing arts magazine. Completed a Ph.D. in Theater Studies and subsequently served as the first resident dramaturg at the Namsan Arts Center, marking a pioneering role in Korean theater.

Has since been active as a theater critic, dramaturg, and researcher, engaging in both writing and teaching across the fields of performing arts and cultural studies. Published three books introducing the theatrical culture of St. Petersburg, Slavic arts and culture, and the cultural heritage of Central Asia.

Currently serves as a professor in the Department of Theater at Cheongju University.

SHINOHARA Masatake

Masatake Shinohara was born in 1975 in Kanagawa, Japan. He graduated from the Faculty of Integrated Human Studies of the Kyoto University and then obtained his PhD at the Graduate School of Human and Environment Studies of the same university. Having previously worked at the Osaka School of International Public Policy of the Osaka University, he is currently a Program-Specific Associate Professor at the Graduate School of Advanced Integrated Studies in Human Survivability of the University of Kyoto. His research is focused on contemporary philosophy, environmental humanities, architecture, and art. The latter allows him to develop a reflection in relation to an embodied realm that remains prior to any conceptual way of understanding. The main topic of his reflection concerns the human condition within the fragility of the contemporary world.

His writings include the following titles: Ningen igo no Tetsugaku (“Philosophy after the Human”), Jinshinsei no Tetsugaku (“Philosophy in the Anthropocene”) Fukususei no Ecology (“Ecology of Multiplicity”), The Luminous Openness of Rinko Kawauchi’s Photographs and Rethinking the Human Condition in the Ecological Collapse. As a translator, he rendered into Japanese the works of Timothy Morton Ecology without Nature and Humankind.