Matthew Isaac Cohen

Matthew Isaac Cohen is a professor in the Department of Dramatic Arts at the University of Connecticut, specializing in global arts and culture and international puppetry. He holds a Ph.D. in anthropology from Yale University and performs as a wayang kulit puppeteer under the company name Kanda Buwana (http://kandabuwana.wordpress.com). His books include Demon Abduction: A Wayang Ritual Drama from West Java (Lontar Foundation, 1998); The Komedie Stamboel: Popular Theater in Colonial Indonesia, 1891-1903 (Ohio University Press and KITLV Press, 2006), which won the Benda Prize from the Association for Asian Studies; Performing Otherness: Java and Bali on International Stages, 1905-1952 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010); and Inventing the Performing Arts: Modernity and Tradition in Colonial Indonesia (University of Hawaii Press, 2016).