Editor's note.(Editorial)

A recent conference at my campus looked at interdisciplinarity and wondered whether we are in a post-disciplinary phase as the academy evolves. As I listened, I had the feeling that the "disciplinary silos" speakers referenced--the departments that dominate the Western university--were generated for arts studies that gave words to the drama and literature people, movement to the dancers, visuals to artists, and music to the concert hall presenters. I realized a number of my peers at the conference thought they were doing something innovative by reaching from music or visual arts to theatre. Anyone who works in Asian theatres knows that while disciplinary skill sets can be …