Faculty & Research
Shunsuke Nozawa
Japan
Associate Professor
Research Keywords
Ethnography of communication, semiotics of culture, politics of language, popular culture, popular history, voice, contact, linguistic anthropology
Qualifications
Ph.D in Anthropology, University of Chicago
MA in Anthropology, University of Chicago
BA in Anthropology and Linguistics, New York University
MA in Anthropology, University of Chicago
BA in Anthropology and Linguistics, New York University
Message
As a linguistic anthropologist and cultural semiotician, I am broadly interested in the meaning of communication and sociality: how ideas and assumptions about language, media, interaction, voice, and so forth, shape everyday habits, institutional practices, and political processes. Currently, I am building a project, tentatively titled “On Social Contact,” which examines metacommunicative struggles over how to define, control, and discipline (im)proper human contact, as these struggles unfold in diverse moments of our contemporary social life, ranging from harassment to social distancing, from solo karaoke to solitary death. In another line of research I hope to continue with my ethnographic work on voice and the labor of characterization in contemporary Japanese popular culture.
I teach classes on diverse topics, ranging from popular culture to politics of language, from anthropology of Japan to academic writing and methods. My classes are mostly discussion-based, and I am looking forward to working with students to create meaningful leaning experience together.
I teach classes on diverse topics, ranging from popular culture to politics of language, from anthropology of Japan to academic writing and methods. My classes are mostly discussion-based, and I am looking forward to working with students to create meaningful leaning experience together.
Classes Taught on MJSP
Japanese Popular Culture; Introduction to Japanese Studies II (Culture); Diversity in Language; Marginal Texts; Academic Writing in Japanese.
Selected Publications and Further Information
Modern Japanese Studies Program Faculty
Jonathan Bull
Lecturer
History: decolonisation, forced migration, settler colonialism, oral history. Memory studies: narrative, social memory formation, museums
Emma Cook
Professor
Japanese youth employment, gender, health and wellbeing, food and social life
Takayuki Ito
Professor
Modern Japanese language history, Japanese language education history
Tadashi Iwami
Lecturer
International Relations, International Politics, Japan’s Foreign and Security Policy, Security Studies, Asian Studies, Oceania Studies, New Zealand, Indo-Pacific
Susanne Klien
Professor
Rural Japan, lifestyle migration, transnational mobility, regional revitalization, new modes of working and living, intangible cultural property
Hironori Sasada
Professor
Political economy of Japan and East Asia, foreign policy, agricultral policy, party politics
Michael Schiltz
Associate Professor
Japanese history, economic / financial history, Asian history, digital humanities
Other Instructors who Teach on MJSP
Juha Saunavaara
Associate Professor
Arctic, north, Hokkaido, Japan, infrastructure, connectivity, governance, international collaboration
Michelle La Fay
Professor, Faculty of Humanities and Human Sciences
Religious Studies, Meiji Era Protestantism, Uchimura Kanzo
Peter Firkola
Part-time lecturer
Japanese management, career development, HRM, recruitment practices
Sachiko Ito
Associate Professor, Musashi women’s university
Distribution, marketing, information society, consumers
Caitlin Coker
Associate Professor, Faculty of Humanities and Human Sciences
Movement studies, Performance studies, Affect theory, Dance, Butoh, Pole Dance, Art/Entertainment, Eroticism, Sensation and Imagination
Paul Spicer
Specially Appointed Associate Professor, Research Faculty of Media and Communication
Film Studies,Film History,Cultural Studies,Popular Music Theory and History
James Letson
Associate Professor
Music subcultures, Community building, Intergenerational relationships, Ethnography, Social theory, Pedagogy
