Dr. Andrea Giolai

Andrea Giolai is University Lecturer (Assistant Professor) of Ethnography and Performing Arts of Japan at Leiden University, and a founding member of the Sonic Japan Research Association (SJRA). He works on sound as a cultural artifact in ancient and contemporary Japan. His research has been published in journals like Asian Anthropology and the Journal of Religion in Japan, and in edited collections like the Bloomsbury Handbook of Japanese Religions (2021), Gagaku (De Gruyter 2025), and the Oxford Handbook of Ecomusicology (OUP forthcoming). He also co-edited Textual Heritage (Berghahn Books 2025), produced an episode on Japanese sound artists for Artery, a podcast on art and anthropology (2023), and contributed to a multimodal piece for the online exhibition Field/Works II (2024) with his artistic research group, the Sound Loss! Collective.