Viewpoint Lecture with Michelle Liu Carriger

Michelle Liu Carriger, a theater and performance historian at UCLA, studies how clothing stages identity. Her book Theatricality of the Closet follows fashion controversies across Victorian Britain and Meiji Japan and won the Barnard Hewitt Award for outstanding research in theater history. She has long practiced the Japanese Way of Tea, including a yearlong fellowship at Urasenke's professional tea college, and has performed the ceremony in The Ringling's own teahouse. Her talk is part of The Ringling's Viewpoint Lecture series. She is also among the contributors to the catalogue for the museum's Spectacular Japan: From Misemono to Big Top, a survey of circus and popular spectacle in Japanese and Western art.