Dorinne K. Kondo

  • Professor of Anthropology, American Studies and Ethnicity
  • Director of Asian American Studies
  • USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
Office: (213) 740-1910

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

Languages

  • French
  • Japanese
  • English

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)