Michael Bodden is Professor of Pacific and Asian Studies at the University of Victoria. He is author of Resistance on the National Stage: Theater and Politics in Late New Order Indonesia (2010) and edited the second volume of The Lontar Anthology of Indonesian Drama (Building a National Theatre) to which he also contributed translations of several plays. He has published widely on Indonesian theatre, literature, and popular culture, and has translated the fiction, poetry, and plays of Indonesian writers such as Putu Wijaya, Nurhidayat Poso, Afrizal Malna, and Seno Gumira Ajidarma.
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