Dr. Sharalyn Orbaugh
Professor
Department of Asian Studies
Asian Centre, 1871 West Mall
University of British Columbia
Vancouver, B.C. Canada V6T 1Z2
phone: 604-822-5132
fax: 604-822-8937
email: sharalyn.orbaugh@ubc.ca
Recent Employment
Professor, appointed jointly in the departments of Asian Studies and Women’s Studies, University of British Columbia:1997 to present
Visiting Professor, Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto: 2003-2004
Education
PhD (August1989, University of Michigan) Far Eastern Languages & Literatures: Japanese
Selected Publications, by topic
Cyborgs, cyborg feminism, Japanese Popular Culture, Japanese Science Fiction:
“Sex and the Single Cyborg: Japanese Popular Culture Experiments in Subjectivity." Included in a collection of scholarly essays on Japanese science fiction, currently under review at the University of Minnesota Press.
“Frankenstein and the Cyborg Metropolis.” For Cinema Anime, ed. Steven Brown. Palgrave, (in press; expected publication spring 2006).
“The Genealogy of the Japanese Cyborg.” In World Weavers: Globalization, Science Fiction, and the Cybernetic Revolution, ed. Wong Kin Yuen, Gary Westfahl, and Amy Chan Kit Sze. Hong Kong University Press, 2005. Pp. 55-71.
Edited translation of Fujimoto Yukari, “Transgender: Female Hermaphrodites and Male Androgynes.” Translated by Linda Flores and Kazumi Nagaike. For the U.S.-Japan Women’s Journal, number 27, 2004.
Guest editor for special edition of the U.S.-Japan Women’s Journal, on manga (comic books for children and adults). Number 25, December, 2003.
“Introduction,” for special edition of the U.S.-Japan Women’s Journal, number 25, December, 2003. Pp. 3-7.
“Creativity and Constraint in Amateur Manga Production.” In the U.S.-Japan Women’s Journal, number 25, December, 2003. Pp. 104-124.
“Busty Battlin’ Babes: the Evolution of the Shôjo in 1990s Visual Culture.” In Gender and Power in the Japanese Visual Field, ed. Norman Bryson, Maribeth Graybill, and Joshua Mostow. Honolulu: Hawai’i University Press, 2003. Pp. 200-228.
Contributed 13 entries to the Encyclopedia of Japanese Culture, ed. Sandra Buckley. NY and London: Routledge, 2002. “Astroboy,” “Bishônen,” “Doraemon,” “Nintendo,” “Occupation Period Literature,” “Otaku,” “Power Rangers,” “Sailor Moon,” “Sanrio,” “Sazae-san,” “Shôjo,” “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles,” “Ultraman.”
“Sex and the Single Cyborg: Japanese Pop Culture Experiments in Subjectivity.” Science Fiction Studies Volume 29, Number3. (November, 2002). Pp. 436-452.
“Why an Artist Paints an Apple: Feminists Read the Fantastic.” In the Association of Teachers of Japanese newsletter. Summer, 2002. P. 3-5.
Modern Japanese Literature: race, gender, ethnicity and sexuality
“Raced Bodies and the Public Sphere in IchikawaKon’s Tokyo Olympiad.” In an essay collection to be published by the International Centerfor Research on Japanese Culture; expected publication spring 2006.
“Higuchi Ichiyô’s Depiction of the Prostitute as Working Woman.” In Womanly Expertise: Women’s Skills and the Modernization of Japan. Proceedings of international colloquium at Chiba National University. Chiba University Press, 2005.
Associate editor for Columbia Companion to Modern East Asian Literatures (sole editor for Japan materials). NY: Columbia University Press, 2003. (Outstanding Academic Book for 2003, Choice magazine; Runner-up for Best Single-volume Reference Work in the Humanities, Association of American Publishers, Awards for Academic and Professional Publishing Division; Outstanding Publication, American Library Association’s University Press Book Committee, 2003.)
Contributed12 essays (30,000 words) to the Columbia Companion to Modern East Asian Literatures. NY: Columbia University Press, 2003. “Historical Overview”; “The Problem of the Modern Subject”; “Nation and Nationalism”; “Gender, Family and Sexualities in Modern Literature”; “Higuchi Ichiyo and Neo-Classical Modernism”; “Natsume Sôseki”; “Shiga Naoya and the Shirakaba Group”; “The Debate Over Pure Literature”; “Naturalism and the Emergence of the Shishôsetsu (Personal Novel)”; “Kawabata Yasunari”; “Occupation Period Fiction”; “Ôe Kenzaburô.”
“Kanai Mieko no tanpen shôsetsu ni okeru ‘shôjo fataaru’” [The ‘fille fatale’ in the short works of Kanai Mieko]. In The Proceedings of the Fourth Symposium on Global Perspectives in Japanese Studies: Encountering Japanese Studies Abroad. Published by the Ochanomizu University Graduate School of the Humanities and Sciences, 2003. Pp. 93-98.
“The Construction of Gendered Discourse in the Modern Study of Japanese Literature” (keynote address). In Janice Brown and Sonja Arntzen eds., Across Time and Genre: Japanese Women’s Writing. University of Alberta, Department of East Asian Studies, 2002.
“A Female Urashima Taro: Ohba Minako’s Return to Japan.” In Return to Japan from Pilgrimage to the West, ed. Yoichi Nagashima. Aarhus: Aarhus University Press, 2001. Pp. 300-319.
"Ohba Minako and the Paternity of Maternalism." In The Father-Daughter Plot, ed. Rebecca Copeland and Esperanza Ramirez-Christensen. Honolulu: Hawai’i University Press, 2001. Pp. 265-291.
“Arguing with the Real: Kanai Mieko.” In Ôe and Beyond, ed. Philip Gabriel and Stephen Snyder. Honolulu: Hawai’i University Press, 1999. Pp. 245-277.
Co-Editor with Thomas Hare and Robert Borgen, The Distant Isle: Studies and Translations of Japanese Literature in Honor of Robert H. Brower. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Center for Japanese Studies, 1996.
"General Nogi's Wife: Representations of Women in Narratives of Japanese Modernization." In In Pursuit of Contemporary East Asian Culture, ed. Stephen Snyder and Xiaobing Tang. Boulder: Westview Press, 1996. Pp. 7-31.
"The Body in Contemporary Japanese Women's Fiction." In The Woman's Hand: Gender and Theory in Japanese Women's Writing, ed. Paul Schalow and Janet Walker. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1996. Pp. 119-164.
"Extending the Parameters of Fiction: Style and Structure in Modern Japanese Literature." In The Distant Isle, ed. Robert Borgen, Thomas Hare, and Sharalyn Orbaugh. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Center for Japanese Studies, 1996. Pp. 333-366.
“The Body in Japanese Fiction of the Allied Occupation.” In the Japan Foundation Newsletter, Volume xxiv, Number 1, 1996.
"Suicide and Dazai." Review article, in Journal of the Association of Teachers of Japanese, Volume 24, Number 2 (November, 1990). Pp. 185-200.
Style and Structure in the Short Works of Shiga Naoya. PhD dissertation. UMI, 1989.
"'Nihon bungaku' wa omoshiroi ka" (zadankai) in Bungakkai, April, 1986. Pp. 186-205.
BookReviews:
Review of Amanda Seaman, Bodies of Evidence: Women, Society and Detective Fiction in 1990s Japan. For Monumenta Nipponica, Volume 59, Number 4 (Winter, 2004).
Review of Isolde Standish, Myth and Masculinity in the Japanese Cinema: Towards a Political Reading of the Tragic Hero. For Monumenta Nipponica, Volume 57, Number 4 (Fall, 2002).
Review of Joan E. Ericson, Be a Woman: Hayashi Fumiko and Modern Japanese Women’s Literature. For The Journal of Japanese Studies 25:1 (1999).
Review of Nanette Gottlieb, Kanji Politics: Language Policy And Japanese Script and J. Marshall Unger, Literacy And Script Reform in Occupation Japan: Reading Between the Lines, for The Journal of Japanese Studies, Winter 1997.
Review of Tomi Suzuki, Narrating the Self: Fictions of Japanese Modernity and John Treat, Writing Ground Zero: Japanese Literature and the Atomic Bomb. For Modern Fiction Studies, Winter 1997.
Review of Susan Napier, The Fantastic in Modern Japanese Literature: The Subversion of Modernity. In The Journal of Asian Studies, February, 1997.
Review of Ken K. Ito, Visions of Desire: Tanizaki's Fictional Worlds. In the Journal of Oriental Studies, Hong Kong, 1994.
Review of Oda Sakunosuke, Osaka Stories in Journal of the Association of Teachers of Japanese, Volume 26, Number 1 (April, 1992).
Review of Japanese Women Writers in Monumenta Nipponica, Volume 47, Number 2 (Summer, 1992).
Invited Talks:
“Kamishibai as Entertainment and Propaganda.” For the Asian Studies colloquium series, University of British Columbia. October 20, 2005.
“Kamishibai as Entertainment and Propaganda.” For the Asiatic Society of Japan. June 13, 2005.
Untitled lecture on Higuchi Ichiyô for class “Women Writers in Japan," Waseda University, Tokyo. May 25, 2005.
Untitled two-hour lecture in Japanese for the Yokohama Prefectural Teachers’ Union, Committee on Gender. Yokohama Japan. March 5, 2005.
“Female Suicide and the Gender Roles of Japanese Modernity.” For symposium: “New Gender Constructions in Literature, the Visual and Performing Arts of Modern China and Japan.” The University of Heidelberg, Germany. October 26-31, 2004; October 27, 2004.
Keynote address for seminar on youth culture, Dôshisha University, Kyoto, Japan. October 5, 2004.
“Higuchi Ichiyô’s Depiction of the Prostitute as a Working Woman.” For colloquium on Meiji period working women at Chiba National University. June 25, 2004.
“Frankenstein and the Cyborg Metropolis.” University of California, Irvine. June 10, 2004.
“General Nogi’s Wife: Historical Narrative and the Construction of Gender.” For the Deutsches Institut für Japan studien, Tokyo, Japan. October 23, 2003.
“The19th Century Roots of Japanese Fascism.” For colloquium: “The 19th Century Roots of Fascism: Germany, Italy, Japan. ”University of British Columbia, 19th Century Studies. Green College. November 19, 2002.
“Mad Dogs and Translators: Violence Across Languages.” University of Michigan, Center for Japanese Studies. October 11, 2002.
“Identity and Literature in Occupied Japan.” For “Starting Over: Japan’s Occupation Years, 1945-1952,” a summer institute for secondary teachers. University of Colorado, Boulder. July 23, 2002.
“Kanai Mieko no tanpen shôsetsu ni okeru ‘shôjo fataaru’” [The ‘fille fatale’ in the short works of Kanai Mieko]. For the Faculty of Literature and Culture, Ochanomizu University. Tokyo, Japan. July 14, 2002.
“Who’s Carving Up the 19th Century: Directions in Research.” Panel presentation for the 19th Century Studies Group colloquium. University of British Columbia. January 16, 2002.
“The Post-human Body and Popular Culture in East Asia.” For PICSA, University of British Columbia. November 13, 2001.
“Visible and Invisible Difference: Renegotiating Identity in Occupation Japan.” For “Starting Over: Japan’s Occupation Years, 1945-1952,” a summer institute for secondary teachers. University of Colorado, Boulder. July 31, 2001.
“Kindaitaishû bunka ni okeru saibôgu no keifu” [The genealogy of the cyborg in modern Japanese popular culture]. For the Faculty of Letters, Ritsumeikan University. Kyoto, Japan. March 7, 2001.
Seminar on the Allied Occupation of Japan, for Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, University of Michigan. October 31, 2000.
“The Genealogy of the Cyborg in Modern Japanese Cultural History.” University of Michigan, Center for Japanese Studies. Ann Arbor, Michigan. October 25, 2000.
“Raced Bodies and the Public Sphere in Ichikawa Kon’s Tokyo Olympiad.” University of British Columbia, Lecture series: Globalization and the Transformation of Asian Societies. March 22, 2000.
“Japanese Women’s Writing and the Genealogy of the Cyborg.” University of Alberta, March 17, 2000.
“Sex and the Single Cyborg: Japanese Pop Culture Experiments in Subjectivity.” Asian Studies Colloquium series, University of British Columbia. February 9, 2000.
“Sex and the Single Cyborg: Japanese Pop Culture Experiments in Subjectivity.” Stanford University, May 27, 1999.
“Busty Battlin’ Babes: Grrrl Power and the Shôjo-ization of Japanese Culture.” University of Montreal, March 27, 1999.
“A Quiet Invasion: Japanese Popular Culture Influences around the World.” For the St. Johns College Lecture Series: Diversity of Cultural Traditions, University of British Columbia. January 13, 1999.
“Prince Ajase and the Mother Complex: Psychoanalysis in Japan. ”For symposium on Lacan, Comparative Literature, University of British Columbia, November 28, 1998.
“Irreducible Linguistic and Cultural Difference: Fifteen Years Later.” Department of Language Education, University of British Columbia, September 30, 1998.
“Gender, Performance and the Family Dynamic in Modern Japanese Literature.” University of Copenhagen, Denmark. September 9, 1998.
“The Development of the Modern Vernacular: the Case of Japan.” 19th Century Studies Colloquium. Green College, University of British Columbia. January 28, 1998.
“Gender, Performance and the Family Dynamic in Postwar Japanese Fiction.” The Institute of Asian Research, Cross-Cultural Literary Studies in Asia Group, University of British Columbia. January 29, 1998.
“Writing and Postwar Memory.” Symposium: "Memory and Culture: Japan, the U.S., and Asia since Hiroshima." The University of Oregon. May 17, 1996.
“Ohba Minako and the Paternity of Maternalism.” Workshop titled "(Un)Dutiful Daughters," Reischauer Institute, Harvard University. May 4, 1996.
“The Disarticulated Body in Japanese Fiction of the Allied Occupation.” The University of Michigan. April 3, 1996.
“Nogi Shizuko in early Taishô Literature.” International Center for Research on Japanese Culture (Kyoto, Japan), International Seminar on Modern Japanese Women. March 9, 1996.
“The Occupied Body in Japanese Fiction, 1945-1952.” The University of British Columbia, Centre for Japanese Research. March 5, 1996.
“General Nogi’s Wife as Frankenstein’s Monster: Gender Politics and the Mind/Body Problem in Japanese Modernism.” The Comparative Literature Programme and the Department of Asian Studies, University of British Columbia. February 15, 1994.
“The Body Politic: Contemporary Japanese Women Writers and Ideological Criticism.” The University of Washington,Seattle; jointly sponsored by the Departments of Comparative Literature and East Asian Languages and Literatures. November 15, 1993.
“The Body in Contemporary Japanese Women's Fiction.” Rutgers University, International Conference on Japanese Women's Literature. April 9-10, 1993.
“A Cartography of Modern Japanese Literature: What Gets on the Map?” Stanford University, Colloquium Series on Comparison. May 14, 1991.