Faculty Profiles German, Russian, and Asian Languages and Literature Department
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Name: Susan J. Napier
Title: Professor
Departmental Affiliation: German, Russian, and Asian Languages and Literature Department
Degrees: AB.,A. M., Phd, Harvard University
E-mail: susan.napier@tufts.edu

Scholarship & Research: "From Impressionism to Anime: Japan as Fantasy and Fan Cult in the Mind of the West" (Palgrave, 2007).

“Meet Me on the Other Side,” in Williams and Hutchinson eds, Modern Japanese Literature and its Others. London: Routledge 2006.

“Matter Out of Place: Carnival, Containment and Cultural Recovery in Miyazaki’s Spirited Away” Journal of Japanese Studies 32:2, Summer: 2006.

Anime from Akira to Howl’s Moving Castle: Experiencing Japanese Animation New York : Palgrave, 2001, (revised edition, 2005).

The Fantastic in Modern Japanese Literature: The Subversion of Modernity.London: Routledge, 1996.

“Panic Sites: The Japanese Imagination of Disaster from Godzilla to Akira” Journal of Japanese Studies, 19:2, 1993.

Escape from the Wasteland: Romanticism and Realism in the Fiction of Mishima Yukio and Oe Kenzaburo. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University East Asia Monograph Series, 1991.

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