Ayako Kano

Ayako Kano

Ayako Kano is Professor of Japanese Studies in the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Pennsylvania. She is a member of the Graduate Groups in Comparative Literature and in History, and a core faculty member of Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies. Her research focuses on the intersection of gender, performance, and politics. She is the author of Acting Like a Woman in Modern Japan: Theater, Gender, and Nationalism (Palgrave, 2001) and Japanese Feminist Debates: A Century of Contention on Sex, Love, and Labor (Hawaii, 2016), and co-editor of Rethinking Japanese Feminisms (Hawaii, 2018).