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Karen Brazell, Director of Global Performing Arts Consortium

Karen W. Brazell is the Goldwin Smith Graduate Professor of Japanese Literature and Theater at Cornell University, director of the Global Performing Arts Consortium (GloPAC , www.glopac.org ), and project director for an IMLS grant entitled “On With the Show: Access to the World's Performing Arts through Museums and Libraries” (http://digitalcooperative.oclc.org/spotlight/cornell.html)

Her latest book, Traditional Japanese Theater: An Anthology of Plays, followed several works on the Noh theatre, some co-authored with Monica Bethe, and the Confessions of Lady Nijo, which won the National Book Award for Translation. She is now working on a web-based, Japanese Performing Arts Resource Center (JPARC, http://www.glopac.org/Jparc/index.html).

Professor Brazell received her B.A. and M.A. from the University of Michigan , and her Ph.D. from Columbia University . She has taught at Princeton University and served as visiting professor at Berkeley , Columbia , Singapore National University , the National Institute of Japanese Literature in Tokyo , and the Kyoto Center for Japanese Studies.  Her many awards include Fulbright, NEH, and Japan Foundation fellowships.

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