Nolte Hall

Mark Anderson

612-626-8143
Asian Languages/Literatures 421 Folwell Hall

Department Affiliations


Specialties

  • Japanese film
  • Japanese literature
  • Japanese modernity
  • Marxian theory
  • The Phonograph, Empire, and Japanese Culture
  • Japanese popular music and media
  • Japanese media studies
  • Imperialism and culture in Japan and the US
  • culture and globalization
  • critique of neoconservatism in a global context
  • colonial and postcolonial in E. Asia
  • Japanese Masculinities

Educational Background

  • Ph.D.: East Asian Literature, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, none.

Publications

  • National Literature as Cultural Monument: Instituting Japanese National Community.. Anderson, Mark, 1997.

Research Activities

  • Straussian Neo-conservatism and the 1942 debate on Overcoming Modernity.: I am exploring critiques of modernity and enlightenment in US and Japanese neo-conservatism
  • The posthuman in Shimomura Torataro, Nishida Kitaro, and Henri Bergson: I examine the role of technology in the figuration and displacement of spirit and human subjectivity
  • The Phonograph in Japan: Popular Music, Empire, and Identity
  • The Meiji Period Family Novel, Shimpa Melodrama, and Silent Film Melodrama
  • Gender in Japanese Silent Film
  • Modernist Warriors: Ito Daisuke and the Sensory Shock of Period Film Drama

Courses Taught

  • Jpn 5160 - Topics in Japanese Literature - Media and Japanese Social Formation
  • Kurosawa, Cold War, and Masculinity
  • Introduction to Japanese Film
  • Imperialism and Culture in Japan and the US
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