Contributor’s profile: Joshua Paul Dale

Joshua Paul Dale has been a full-time faculty member (gaikokujinkyoshi) of the Department of English at Tokyo Gakugei University since 1995. He received his PhD from the English Department at the University of Buffalo, where he was a Presidential Fellow. Dale’s book project, Sex Acts Across Culture, proposes a theory of “sex acts”—performative acts grounded in the corporeal—to articulate a new relationality in gendered cross-cultural encounters. Dale is also a performance artist with over fifteen years of stage experience.