Faculty & Research
Susanne Klien
Austria
Professor
Research Keywords
Rural Japan, lifestyle migration, transnational mobility, regional revitalization, new modes of working and living, intangible cultural property
Qualifications
MA: Vienna University
PhD: Vienna University
PhD: Vienna University
Message
My research is mainly qualitative and focuses on modern and contemporary Japan. I have a background in Japanese studies with a focus on cultural anthropology. I have previously investigated the practice and transmission of traditions in rural Japan such as local festivals, meanings of life, regional revitalization, tourism as well as alternative lifestyles in rural Japan. I am presently working on a new ethnographic project that examines transnational mobility of Japanese individuals in Europe.
Classes Taught on MJSP
Introduction to Japanese Studies II (Culture), Japanese Culture I & II, Japanese for Academic Purposes IIB, Aspects of Japan II Field Trip You can watch a video of me giving a lecture as part of the Global Issues Forum for Tomorrow (GIFT) event that was part of Sustainability Weeks 2013.
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
Shunsuke Nozawa
Associate Professor
Ethnography of communication, semiotics of culture, politics of language, popular culture, popular history, voice, contact, linguistic anthropology
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
