Miryam Sas‘ book in progress, Performance Unbound: On Post-war Japanese Theater, is concerned with how recent theories of active and performative memorialization may be used to explore theatrical developments in Japan since the 1960s. Professor Sas, who received her Ph.D. from Yale, will focus on experimental aesthetics, and on issues of trauma and historical and cultural remembrance, in an exploration of the work of central playwrights/directors in Japan in the period. She will examine how the memories of events create an ethical demand for a form of telling that breaks the frames of narrative and psychologically realistic theater. As in her earlier work, Sas, who teaches in both East Asian Languages and Comparative Literature, intend to bridge the gap between European theoretical and theatrical studies and Japanese culture and literary works, looking for intersections between the work of Japanese playwrights and their European counterparts: Beckett, Genet, and Artaud.