Susan Napier
Professor of Japanese Program
Director of Japanese Program

Education
A.B., Harvard University; Major, East Asian Studies (1977)
A.M, Harvard University; East Asian Languages and Civilizations (1980)
PhD., Harvard University, East Asian Languages and Civilizations (1984)

Research Interests
Japanese animation (anime) and comics (manga); Modern Japanese literature, popular culture, science fiction and fantasy; contemporary constructions of gender and the body; technology and culture.

Biography
Coming soon.

Major Publications

Books

• Anime from Akira to Howl's Moving Castle: Experiencing Japanese Animation (New York: Palgrave, 2005)
• The Subversion of Modernity: the Fantastic in Modern Japanese Literature (London: Routledge, 1996)
• Escape from the Wasteland: Romanticism and Realism in the Works of Mishima Yukio and Oe Kenzaburo (Cambridge: Harvard University East Asia Series, 1991)

Recent Articles

• "Meet Me on the Other Side: Strategies of Otherness in Modern Japanese Fiction" in Japan and Its Others, ed. Mark Williams (London: Routledge, 2006)
• "When Godzilla Speaks" in Godzillas Footsteps, ed. William Tsutsui (New York: Palgrave, 2006)
• "Matter Out of Place: Carnival and Cultural Recovery in Miyazaki Hayaoj's Spritied Away" Journal of Japanese Studies, Winter, 2006