Faculty Research

Frederick Publishes Article in “Project Muse”

Professor Sarah Frederick has published an article titled Novels to See/Movies to Read: Photographic Fiction in Japanese Women’s Magazines  The article analyzes interactions between text and photographic image in works of photographic fiction (shashin shôsetsu) printed in Japanese women’s magazines from the 1930s to the 1950s, including their interaction with cinema and print culture. The essay considers […]

Prof. Golder Writes and Releases Film

Professor Herbert Golder wrote the award-winning film “My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done”. Inspired by a true crime, a man begins to experience mystifying events that lead him to slay his mother with a sword. The film stars Michael Shannon, Willem Dafoe and Chloe Sevigny. Directed by Wener Herzog.

Frederick Publishes, “Turning Pages: Reading and Writing Women’s Magazines in Interwar Japan”

Professor Sarah Frederick publishes Turning Pages, which considers the central place of representations of women for women in the culture of interwar-era Japan and our understanding of Japanese modernity. Taking a holistic approach to the texts and using tools of historical, literary, and cultural analysis, the author examines the triangular relationship among the consumers, the producers, […]