ON LEAVE
September 1, 2023—April 30, 2024

Sharalyn Orbaugh

Department Head | Professor | Modern Japanese Literature and Popular Culture
phone 604 822 5132
location_on Asian Centre 401
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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.


Sharalyn Orbaugh

Department Head | Professor | Modern Japanese Literature and Popular Culture
phone 604 822 5132
location_on Asian Centre 401
file_download Download CV
Research Area
ON LEAVE
September 1, 2023—April 30, 2024

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.


Sharalyn Orbaugh

Department Head | Professor | Modern Japanese Literature and Popular Culture
ON LEAVE
September 1, 2023—April 30, 2024
phone 604 822 5132
location_on Asian Centre 401
Research Area
file_download Download CV
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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 keyboard_arrow_down
Research keyboard_arrow_down

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.