ジェンダー

cross-gender casting

Shakespeare's fools and clowns

Performance Criticism

Early Modern

Shakespeare

Humanities & social sciences, Gender studies, Gender

Humanities & social sciences, Literature - European, English Language and Literature

Humanities & social sciences, Literature - European, European Language Literature

Apr. 2014 - Present
NIhon University College of Bioresource Sciences, Liberal Arts, Professor

Apr. 2002 - Mar. 2014
Associate Professor of English, Nihon University College of Bioresource Sciences

Apr. 2009 - Mar. 2010
Associate Member, the Faculty of English, University of Oxford

Apr. 1999 - Mar. 2002
Lecturer in English, Department of English Communication, Faculty of Foreign Languages, Nagoya University of Commerce and Business Administration

1997
The Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham, Graduate School, Division of Letters, PhD in English

Aoyama Gakuin University, Faculty of Literature, BA in English

Apr. 2023 - Present
Executive Committee (General Editor), Shakespeare Society of Japan

Apr. 2019 - Mar. 2021
General Editor, English Literary Society of Japan

Apr. 2016 - Mar. 2020
Performance Review Editor, Shakespeare Society of Japan

Thoughts on Gender and Casting, Gender and Sexuality: The State of the Fields
Shakespeare Survey, Nov. 2024, Not refereed, Invited

‘And All Is Semblative a Woman’s Part’: Japan’s All-Male As You Like It
Kumiko Hilberdink-Sakamoto
Shakespeare, Oct. 2024, Refereed

ブルータスは高潔の士か？オールフィメイル上演とエンパワーメント
日本英文学会第94回全国大会Proceedings, 2022, Refereed, Invited

'Playing the male' or 'playing the female': Cross-gender Shakespeare in Japan and the UK
Kumiko Hilberdink-Sakamoto
Shakespeare at Play: ANZSA 2018 Conference, Feb. 2018, Refereed, Not invited

Learの道化のアフターライフ：Antony Sherおよびそれ以降の道化の表象
阪本 久美子
人間科学研究, Mar. 2014, Refereed, Not invited
Lead

The Tragedy of Cressida, or In Search of Cressida's Cressida
Hilberdink-Sakamoto Kumiko
Studies in Human Sciences, Mar. 2013, Refereed, Not invited
Lead

Jonathan Munby's Romeo and Juliet and Olivier Py's Romeo et Juliette (unbridged version)
Shakespeare Studies, Mar. 2013, Refereed, Not invited
Lead

Reconsidering ‘Doubling’: the case of Globe on Tour’s Comedy of Errors (2009-2011)
The Journal of Arts and Humanities (JAH), 2013, Refereed, Not invited
Lead

Clowns and Comic Beating: the Case of Act 2 Scene 2 in The Comedy of Errors
阪本 久美子
Expressions, Mar. 2012, Refereed, Not invited
Lead

道化ランスロット・ゴボーは笑えるか？－マルチェロ・マーニの場合
阪本 久美子
西洋比較演劇研究, Mar. 2011, Refereed, Not invited
Lead

Shakespeare Goes to Kabuki with Ninagawa: Twelfth Night in the Kabuki-za Theatre
阪本 久美子
Studies in Human Sciences, Mar. 2008, Refereed, Not invited
Lead

"Tell me how long you would have her, after you have possessed her": in defence of Rosalind in As You Like It
阪本 久美子
International Cultural Expression Studies: Expressions, Mar. 2007, Refereed, Not invited
Lead

第45回シェイクスピア学会報告 特別講演要旨
Shakespeare News, Dec. 2006, Not refereed, Not invited
Lead

'I Met My Prince at the Brothel': Royal Romance and Prostitution in Shakespeare's Pericles
Kumiko Hilberdink-Sakamoto
英米文学, Mar. 2006, Refereed, Not invited
Lead

悪漢の活劇としてのシェイクスピア悲劇－流山児事務所の『ピカレスク・イアーゴ』と『悪漢リチャード』－
阪本久美子
人間科学研究, Mar. 2006, Refereed, Not invited
Lead

The Comic, Laughter and Academism: Ninagawa and Shakespeare Productions in Japan
阪本 久美子
Studies in Human Sciences, Mar. 2004, Refereed, Not invited
Lead

The Unfortunate Encounter of East and West: a note on Ninagawa/Hawthorne Lear
Comparative Culture and Literature Society of Nihon University, 2004, Not refereed, Not invited
Lead

A Recent Trend in Translation Studies and Shakespeare
International Society for Cultural Expression, 2004, Not refereed, Not invited
Lead

『ペリクリーズ』再訪－近親相姦、売春、シンデレラストーリー
Shakespeare News, 2002, Not refereed, Not invited
Lead

The Comic, Laughter, and Intercultural Theatre: the Motley Crew in Two Productions of Yukio Ninagawa
Proceedings, SCAENA: Shakespeare and his Contemporaries in Performance, 2001, Not refereed, Not invited
Lead

Baz Luhrmann's William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet
Shakespeare News, 2000, Refereed, Not invited
Lead

Translatability of Shakespeare: A case of the Japanese Shakespeare
Proceedings, International Conference, 'Shakespeare: Authenticity and Adaptation', 2000, Not refereed, Not invited
Lead

The New Kurosawa?: the Reception of Yukio Ninagawa's Shakespeare in the West
Proceedings: the Annual Meeting of the American Comparative Literature Association, 'Interdisciplinary Studies: in the middle, across, or in between? ', 2000, Not refereed, Not invited
Lead

"O God's Will, Much Better She Ne'er Had Known Pomp": the Making of Queen Anne in Shakespeare's Henry VIII
Shakespeare Studies, 1999, Refereed, Not invited
Lead

The Japanese Shakespeare in the West: the secret of Ninagawa’s success
Proceedings, The 9th Biennial Symposium on the Literature & Culture of the Asia-Pacific Region, 'Complicities: Connections & Divisions', 1999, Not refereed, Not invited
Lead

Queen Elizabeth's Doubles?: Women and Power in the Late Plays of Shakespeare
PhD Thesis, the Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham, 1997, Refereed, Not invited
Lead

The Shakespearean Romance Daughter in Pericles: or She Met Her Prince at the Brothel
Proceedings, Lancaster Women's Studies One-Day Conference, 'Romance Revisited', 1993, Not refereed, Not invited
Lead

'The Use and Abuse of Patriarchy: the Father-Daughter Bonds in Two Shakespearean Romances'
立教レヴュー, 1990, Refereed, Not invited
Lead

All the Father’s Girls: Patriarchal Structures in Measure for Measure and The Tempest
修士論文、立教大学大学院, 1990, Refereed, Not invited

Games Lovers Play: Lovers’ Transformation and the Audience Response in Much Ado About Nothing and As You Like It
MA Thesis, University of Essex, 1988, Refereed, Not invited
Lead

Emi Hamana, Shakespeare Performances in Japan: Intercultural-Multilingual-Translingual (Yokohama, Japan: Shumpusha, 2019). 183pp.
Kumiko Hilberdink-Sakamoto
Shakespeare Studies, Mar. 2022, Refereed, Not invited

女性の身体＋男性の台詞＝？
阪本久美子
PARCO Produce 2021 『ジュリアス・シーザー』プログラム, 10 Oct. 2021, Not refereed, Invited

「ドンマー・トリロジー」の社会的意義－現代イギリスにおけるシェイクスピア劇のオールフィメイル上演－
演劇学論集, 30 May 2017, Refereed, Not invited
Lead

Mariko Ichikawa, The Shakespearean Stage Space, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. Pp. xiii + 221.
Kumiko Hilberdink-Sakamoto
Shakespeare Studies, 06 Mar. 2015, Refereed, Invited
Lead

『清く正しく美しい』ジュリエットをねらう二人の男（役）－宝塚版『ミュージカル ロミオ＆ジュリエット』」
2014, Not refereed, Not invited
Lead

The 'Errors' of the Errors: doubling, confusion and theatricality
Shakespeare News, 31 Jan. 2011, Refereed, Not invited
Lead

異性装：歴史の中の性の越境者たち
Contributor, シェイクスピアのオールメイル上演の愉しみ方
集英社, Feb. 2023

緑の信管と緑の庭園
Joint work, ドンマー・ウェアハウス劇場における『ヘンリー4世』―女囚シェイクスピアの「脱線」と「錯覚」の効果―
音羽書房鶴見書店, Mar. 2021, Refereed

The current trend in performance studies of Shakespeare in Japan
Joint work, 51-63, 110-44
Fubaisha Publishers, Apr. 2010, Not refereed

Shakespeare in Asia: contemporary performance
Joint work, 132-51
Cambridge University Press, Jan. 2010, Not refereed

Shakespeare without English: the reception of Shakespeare in non-anglophone countries
Sukanta Chaudhuri; Chee Seng Lim, Joint work, 67-85, Sukanta Chaudhuri; Chee Seng Lim
Pearson Longman, Jan. 2006, Not refereed

『「ゴルディオスの絆」：結婚のディスコースとイギリス・ルネサンス演劇』
原英一; 楠明子, Joint work, pp125-59, 原英一、楠明子
松柏社, 2002, Not refereed

『変容する悲劇―英米文学からのアプローチ』
川崎淳ノ助, Joint work, pp.213-42, 川崎淳ノ助
松柏社, 1993, Not refereed

★Plenary Roundtable 'Gender and Sexuality: the State of the Fields'
The 11th World Shakespeare Congress, Jul. 2021, International Shakespeare Association, Invited

To be blind or not to be blind?: the complex body in all-female theatres
Kumiko Hilberdink-Sakamoto
British Shakespeare Association 2023, Jul. 2023, Not invited

Shakespeare in Japan
Kumiko Hilberdink-Sakamoto
The Equality Shakespeare Festival, May 2022, Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham

シンポジア：シェイクスピアとフェミニズム的受容「Brutusは高潔の士か？オールフィメイル上演とエンパワーメント」
阪本久美子
日本英文学会第９４回大会, May 2022, 日本英文学会, Invited

「ミスキャスト」？：シェイクスピアにおける配役の不思議
第57回シェイクスピア学会, Oct. 2018, 日本シェイクスピア協会, Invited

'Playing the male' in all-female Shakespeare productions: the Donmar Shakespeare Trilogy and Takarazuka's Romeo and Juliet
Kumiko Hilberdink-Sakamoto
ANZSA 2018 Conference, University of Melbourne, Australia, Feb. 2018, ANZSA (Australian and New Zealand Shakespeare Association), Not invited

「ドンマー・トリロジー」の社会的意義―現代イギリスにおけるシェイクスピア劇のオールフィメイル上演
日本演劇学会2016年研究集会「シェイクスピア ローカル・グローバル」, Dec. 2016, Not invited

Unproblematising the Problematic?: two all-male productions of The Taming of the Shrew in Japan
the 10th World Shakespeare Congress, Aug. 2016, he International Shakespeare Association, Royal Shakespeare Company, Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, Shakespeare's Globe, King's College London, the Shakespeare Institute, Not invited

シェイクスピアの「異性配役」を再考する
第52回シェイクスピア学会, Oct. 2013, 日本シェイクスピア協会, Not invited

The Male Body and the Female Body in Takarazuka's Romeo and Juliet
Shakespeare and Japan (BSA), Feb. 2013, British Shakespeare Association, Not invited

On Shakespeare's Tempest
'Lunch with Shakespeare', The Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan (FCCJ), Oct. 2012, The Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan (FCCJ), Invited

The 'Errors' of the Errors: doubling, confusion and theatricality
Shakespeare Society of Japan, Oct. 2010, Not invited

笑いの再生：上演から見る道化の演じ方
早稲田大学演劇博物館グローバルCOEプログラム西洋演劇研究コースシェイクスピア・ゼミ講演会, Jul. 2010, Invited

異性配役（cross-gender casting）：日本における女装配役に関する試論
日本シェイクスピア協会, Oct. 2008, Not invited

The Japanese Shakespeare in the West: the reception of 'Ninagawa Shakespeare'
日本シェイクスピア協会第45回大会, Oct. 2006, Not invited

Shakespeare Goes to Kabuki with Ninagawa: Twelfth Night in the Kabuki-za Theatre
International Shakespeare Association, Jul. 2006, Not invited

エリザベス朝ノスタルジア再考―女王の表象とシェイクスピアの後期劇
１７世紀英文学会, Mar. 2005, Not invited

シェイクスピア・ナウ・イン・ジャパン
日本大学比較文化・比較文学会第１６回大会, Dec. 2003, Not invited

「『ペリクリーズ』再訪－近親相姦、売春、シンデレラストーリー」
シェイクスピア協会第41回大会, 2002, Not invited

'The Comic, Laughter, and Intercultural Theatre: the Origin of the Motley Crew in Yukio Ninagawa's Midsummer Night's Dream'
SCAENA: Shakespeare and his Contemporaries in Performance, St. John's College, the University of Cambridge, UK, 2001, Not invited

'"Why Shakespeare in Japan?": resituating the Japanese Shakespeare'
the Seventh World Shakespeare Congress, the University of Valencia, Spain, 2001, Not invited

「処女女王と結婚問題」、セミナー1「結婚のディスコースと英国ルネサンス演劇」
シェイクスピア協会第39回大会, 2000, Not invited

'Translatability of Shakespeare: A case of the Japanese Shakespeare'
International Conference, 'Shakespeare: Authenticity and Adaptation', De Montfort University, Leicester, UK, 2000, Not invited

'"Tell Me How Long You Would Have Her, After You Have Possessed Her": Lovers in Early Modern Drama'
日本英文学会第72回大会, 2000, Not invited

'The New Kurosawa?: the Reception of Yukio Ninagawa's Shakespeare in the West'
the Annual Meeting of the American Comparative Literature Association, 'Interdisciplinary Studies: in the middle, across, or in between? ', Yale University, USA, 2000, Not invited

'The Japanese Shakespeare in the West: the Secret of Ninagawa's Success'
the 9th Biennial Symposium on the Literature & Culture of the Asia-Pacific Region, 'Complicities: Connections & Divisions', National University of Singapore, Singapore, 1999, Not invited

'"O God's Will, Much Better She Ne'er Had Known Pomp": the Making of Queen Anne in Shakespeare's Henry VIII'
シェイクスピア協会第38回大会, 1999, Not invited

'"Nothing Extreame Lives Long": the Discourse of Love in Early Modern Drama'
International Literary Conference, 'Still A-Flying': the Experience of Time in Early Modern Literature', the University of Groningen, the Netherlands, 1997, Not invited

'The Shakespearean Romance Daughter in Pericles: or She Met Her Prince at the Brothel'
Lancaster Women's Studies One-Day Conference, 'Romance Revisited', the University of Lancaster, UK, 1993, Not invited

'Power and Powerlessness of Queens in Shakespeare's Henry VIII'
Women's Studies Staff Colloquium at Gregynog, the University of Wales, UK, 1992, Not invited

'''Elizabethan Transvestism'': Dilemma of Patriarchy in the Representation of Katherine of Aragon in Henry VIII'
Shakespeare Institute Research Seminar, the University of Birmingham, UK, 1991, Not invited

International Shakespeare Association

西洋比較演劇研究会

１７世紀英文学会

Shakespeare Society of Japan

English Literary Society of Japan

A phenomenological approaches to the study of Shakespeare performances: nontraditional casting and an audience's "lived experience"
文部科学省, 科学研究費, 2021 - 2023
阪本 久美子

異性配役の身体を探る：オールメール・シェイクスピアからプロペラまで
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, 2011 - 2013
HILBERDINK-SAKAMOTO Kumiko

シェイクスピアの異性装上演における観客：異性配役の「笑い」と「魅力」
2014 - 2016

Playing Shakespeare's Fool - a comparative study of fool acting in Britain and Japan
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, 2008 - 2010
SAKAMOTO Kumiko

ケンブリッジ大学セント・ジョンズカレッジで開催されたSCAENA: Shakespeare and his Contemporaries in Performance学会にて研究発表。
日本英文学会, 日本英文学会トラベルグラント, 2001 - 2001

シェイクスピアは誰のもの？
lecturer
藤沢北警察署, 15 Feb. 2019

Audience survey of the all-male production of Shakespeare's Two Gentlemen of Verona at Ayanokuni Saitama Art Theatre (directed by Yukio Ninagawa)
12 Oct. 2015 - 12 Oct. 2015

Audience survey of Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream performed by all-male theatre company, 'Studio Life'
07 Feb. 2015 - 07 Feb. 2015

Audience survey of Takarazuka Review's musical version of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet (using the recorded performance)
05 Dec. 2014 - 05 Dec. 2014