Eiichiro Hirata

(Associate Professor)
Humanities and Social Sciences, Keio University

Professor Hirata, an expert on theatre and performance theories at Keio University in Tokyo, has published on Walter Benjamin, avant-garde Japanese and German theatre as well as technological influences on contemporary art. He has presented papers internationally on Japanese and German theatre performances.

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Recent Publications, Performances or Presentations

1) "Walter Benjamins philosophische Geschichte des Dramas". Zwischenzeiten - Zwischenwelten. Festschrift für Kozo Hirao. Ed. Joseph Fürnkäs. Frankfurt am Main: Lang, 2001. 475-86.
2) "Dumb Types mediale Strategie." The Geibun-Kenkyu Journal of Art and Letters. 85 (2003): 241-52.
3) "Die Text-Maschine. Zur Rhetorik in der "Hamletmaschine" von Heiner Müller."Keio-Germanistik Jahresschrift. 12 (1995): 151-65.