Sharalyn Orbaugh
Research Area
About
Department Head, Professor of Modern Japanese Literature and Popular Culture
Associate, Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice
Education:
PhD in Far Eastern Languages and Literatures, University of Michigan, 1989
Teaching
Research
Research Interests:
1. The visual and narrative culture of wartime and Occupation era Japan (1930s-1950s), especially prose fiction, magazines for women and children, and kamishibai; the nature and function of propaganda, and the censorship of cultural products.
2. Narratives of the post human in modern Japanese fiction, film, manga and anime; science fiction generally, particularly the queering of ontological boundaries.
3. Postwar women’s fiction in Japan and its engagement with the body; gender, sex, and sexuality generally.
4. Anomalous embodiment in popular culture products in the modern period in Europe, North America, and East Asia.