Miryam Sas

Miryam Sas is Professor of Comparative Literature and Film and Media at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of two books, Experimental Arts in Postwar Japan: Moments of Encounter, Engagement, and Imagined Return; and Fault Lines: Cultural Memory and Japanese Surrealism. She has written numerous articles in English, French, and Japanese on subjects such as Japanese futurism, cross-cultural performance, and butô dance. Before moving to Berkeley, she was assistant professor of Comparative Literature and East Asian Languages and Cultures at Harvard University.