IJS Lecture: Deborah Shamoon
This is a pre-recorded IJS lecture given virtually on 3/2/2023, entitled "Approaches to Manga Studies and Comics Studies." The original event page can be found at https://easc.osu.edu/events/ijs-virtu....
Deborah Shamoon is Associate Professor in the Department of Japanese Studies at the National University of Singapore. She received her PhD in modern Japanese literature and film at the University of California, Berkeley, and previously taught at the University of Notre Dame. She has published widely on Japanese manga, anime, and film. Her book Passionate Friendship: The Aesthetics of Girls’ Culture in Japan (2012), is a cultural history of shōjo manga and girls’ magazines. Other publications include “The Yōkai in the Database: Supernatural Creatures and Folklore in Manga and Anime” in Marvels & Tales 27.2: 2013; “The Beautiful Men of the Inner Chamber: Gender-Bending and Other Shōjo Manga Tropes in Ooku” in Introducing Japanese Popular Culture, 2023; “Films on Paper: Cinematic Narrative in Gekiga” in Mangatopia: Essays on Manga and Anime in the Modern World, 2011.