Dorinne kondo biography
- For many years she served as Director of Asian American Studies.
- Grounded in twenty years of fieldwork as dramaturg and playwright, Kondo mobilizes critical race studies, affect theory, psychoanalysis, and dramatic writing.
- Dorinne K. Kondo is a professor of American studies and Ethnicity and Anthropology at the University of Southern California.
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Expertise Summary
Expert in critical race studies, Asian American studies, theater and performance, and the politics of racial and gender representation in the entertainment and fashion industries.
Expertise
- Fashion, especially Japanese fashion in the West
- Theater, especially work by artists of color in the U.S.
- Race, class, and gender in theater, film, television
- Race, class, and gender in the fashion industry
- Asian Americans and people of color
- Performance
- Theater
Additional Information
- Author of Crafting Selves: Power, Gender and Discourses of Identity in a Japanese Workplace (1990)
- About Face: Performing Race in Fashion and Theater (1997)
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Dorinne Kondo
Dorinne K. Kondo is a professor of American studies and Ethnicity and Anthropology at the University of Southern California. She is a scholar, playwright, and has over 20 years of work experience in dramaturge; her work shows the structural inequality of race and ethnicities in the world of contemporary theatre. Her writings discuss issues on power, gender inequality, the discourses in a Japanese workplace, and racism in the fashion industry.[1]
Kondo suffered a cardiac incident in which one of her valves was leaking. Her book launch for Worldmaking: Race, Performance and the Work of Creativity, was postponed three years due to her open-heart surgery.[citation needed]
Education
Kondo's education was fully focalized on Anthropology. She received her Bachelor of Anthropology from Stanford University in 1975. She continued her studies by taking her Masters in Anthropology in Harvard University in 1978. She then obtained her Ph.D. in Anthropology in Harvard University in 1982. Dorinne Kondo has specialized in research after finishi