Jennifer Goodlander is an Associate Professor at Indiana University, USA—teaching in theatre and comparative literature and is Director of the Southeast Asian and ASEAN Studies Program. Her book, Women in the Shadows: Gender, Puppets, and the Power of Tradition in Bali was published in 2016. She has published numerous articles and book chapters on the relationship of tradition to modernity within Southeast Asian Societies. She also performs Balinese shadow puppetry in the US and internationally.
Puppets and Cities is an excellent resource for all students of Southeast Asian puppetry, as well as for theatre and performance scholars more generally … The breadth of this study is unique and admirable; its expansive look at Southeast Asia reveals a complex web of cross-cultural connections within both traditional practices and modern aspirations. * Theatre Journal *