Professor Mitsuyo Wada-Marciano

Mitsuyo Wada-Marciano is a professor at the Graduate School of Letters, Kyoto University, Japan. She is specialized in Japanese and East Asian cinemas with focus on digital media, disaster film, eco-cinema, and post-colonial cinema in cases of Japan, Taiwan, and Korea.

Her research interests are Japanese cinema, especially its relationship to the post-Fukushima Japanese society, the impact of digital technology on cinema, and East Asian cinemas in global culture.  

She is the author of Nippon Modern: Japanese Cinema of the 1920s and 1930s (University of Hawai’i Press, 2008); the Japanese translation was published by Nagoya University Press in 2009; and Japanese Cinema in the Digital Age (University of Hawai‘i Press, 2012); the Japanese translation was published by Nagoya University Press in 2010.  

She is also the editor of “Sengo” Nihon eiga-ron: 1950 nendai eiga kara mieru genzai [Viewing “Postwar” in the 1950s Japanese Cinema] (Tokyo: Seikyusha, 2012) and the co-editor of Horror to the Extreme: Changing Boundaries in Asian Cinema (Hong Kong University Press, 2009).  

She was a researcher at the International Center for Japanese Cultural Studies (Kyoto) for 2016-17 and conducted her research for her new book project, No Nuke: “Voices” of Videographers.

Areas of expertise: Japanese Cinema, East Asian Cinemas, <Post-3.11> Documentary, Queer Visions

Books and interview

Mitsuyo Wada-Marciano's interview on Asian cinema by Kyoto University

Nippon Modern: Japanese Cinema of the 1920s and 1930s (University of Hawai’i Press, 2008)

Nippon Modern: Japanese Cinema of the 1920s and 1930s [Japanese translation] (Nagoya University Press, 2009)

Japanese Cinema in the Digital Age (University of Hawai‘i Press, 2012)

Japanese Cinema in the Digital Age [Japanese translation] (Nagoya University Press, 2010)

No Nuke: “Voices” of Videographers (Nagoya University Press, 2021)

Career history

2018 – Present Professor, Graduate School of Letters, Kyoto University

2014 – 2018 Professor of Film Studies in School for Studies in Art and Culture, Carleton University (Ottawa, Canada)

2013, 2015, 2016 Visiting Professor, Graduate School of Letters, Kyoto University (Kyoto, Japan)

2009 – 2014 Associate Professor of Film Studies in School for Studies in Art and Culture, Carleton University (Ottawa, Canada)

2002 – 2009 Assistant Professor of Film Studies in School for Studies in Art and Culture, Carleton University (Ottawa, Canada)

2000 – 2002 Assistant Professor of Film Studies in Department of German, Russian, and Asian Languages and Literatures, Tufts University (Boston, USA)

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