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Lecturer in Japanese, University of Sydney

M.W. (Matthew Wayne) Shores is a scholar of early modern and modern Japanese literary arts and entertainment. Much of his work to date has focused on modern comic storytelling (rakugo) and its early modern precursors, literary and otherwise. Shores began his career in the UK, where he was a Governing Body Fellow and Director of East Asian Studies at Peterhouse, the oldest of the Cambridge colleges. He joined The University of Sydney in 2019. He is a Japan editor for Asian Theatre Journal and directs Traditional Theatre Training (TTT), an intensive three-week program hosted by Kyoto Art Center each summer.

Experience

  • 2019–present
    Lecturer in Japanese, The University of Sydney
  • 2015–2018
    Lecturer in Japanese, University of Cambridge

Education

  • 2014 
    University of Hawai'i at Mānoa, PhD in East Asian Languages and Literatures (Japanese Literature)

Publications

  • 2021
    The Comic Storytelling of Western Japan: Satire and Social Mobility in Kamigata Rakugo, Cambridge University Press

Research Areas

  • Japanese Language (200312)
  • Literature In Japanese (200518)