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GSICCS | Directed Research and Faculty Members19Study planCulture and Communication Culture and TranslationASO, TakashiPh.D. in Comparative Literature (State University of New York at Buffalo)RESEARCH FIELD:Postmodernism and American CultureIt is said that American Culture since the end of World War II has contributed to the formation of the so-called “global culture.” Indeed, the United States has been very inuential with its military and economic power throughout the world and, therefore, it also has exerted soft power extensively over other countries and nations. This is why some critics argue that global culture is American culture and that globalization is Americanization. In fact, it is not only non-U.S. culture but also American culture itself that undergoes radical changes under the process of globalization, since American culture, however dominant it might be, has to change itself when it collides and negotiates with another culture. In this seminar, we want to draw attention to this process of cultural collision and negotiation so that we would analyze the ways in which culture changes. We also want to focus on the process of cultural hybridization and/or cultural translation where two or more cultures mix with each other. Cultural StudiesDVORAK, GregPh.D. in Interdisciplinary Cross-Cultural Research (Cultural Studies)(The Australian National University)RESEARCH FIELD:Cultural Studies,Gender Studies, Pacic StudiesCulture and MediaLAW, GrahamDoctor of Philosophy in English Literature (University of Sussex)RESEARCH FIELD:Media HistoryCulture, power, and meaning are intimately entangled in ways that demand nuanced and rigorous exploration. Taking cues from indigenous studies, contemporary art/photography studies, queer studies, postcolonial historiography, and feminist anthropology, this graduate track encourages an approach to Cultural Studies that is transdisciplinary, multi-sited, self-reexive, and creative. Each student in the seminar pursues diverse and unique research themes, including, for example, critiques of militarism, studies of Pacic Islander war memory, or decolonization; depictions of race and gender in mainstream TV dramas or theater in Asia; critical surveys of queer or feminist art in Japan; masculinities and popular culture; and so on. Collectively, however, all seminar members share a commitment to shining light on marginalized people/histories and deliberating the implications of inequality as expressed through culture. Students work actively with each other and the instructor to curate a series of presentations and lectures on their topics and theory/methodologies that apply to all members’ projects. As a cultural historian, my work and supervision focuses mainly on contemporary intersections of power and representation between Japan and the United States, especially as it pertains to the vast and heavily colonized Pacic Islands region. I supervise students not only in this specic area of Japan/Pacic Studies but also in historiographical and semiotic approaches to art, minority issues, gender, and identity. The principal intellectual focus in this direct research area will be on the comparative study of the history of communications media in industrialized (or industrializing) societies, in particular, with regard to Western Europe, North America, and East Asia. Though my seminar may concern any of the four major media transformations of the last two centuries – the periodical “revolution” (newspapers, magazines, and other serial formats), the audio-visual “revolution” (phonograph, cinema), the broadcasting “revolution” (radio, television), and the internet “revolution” (networking, digitalization, social media) – the main emphasis will be on socio-cultural rather than on scientic and technological aspects of change. There will be two main educational aims: (1) to train all students to be able to deal with the general methodological problems, both theoretical and practical, associated with advanced-level research in the eld of media studies; and (2) to support each individual student in independently creating and developing a feasible research project appropriate for a masters/doctoral program, and in bringing it to completion in the form of a persuasive written dissertation in English. In the earlier part of each semester, class sessions will be led by the course instructor, while the later part will be given over to presentations and related discussion by student members concerning their own research projects. The individual members of the seminar typically come from a wide range of cultural backgrounds but form a close-knit community united in support of each other.ProfessorAssociate ProfessorProfessor

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