College of Humanities
& School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics
Dr Griseldis Kirsch
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Key information
Key information
- Roles
- College of Humanities Deputy Dean School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics Reader in Contemporary Japanese Culture Academic staff Member Member
- Qualifications
- MA, PhD (Trier)
- Building
- Russell Square, College Buildings
- Office
- 377
- Email address
- gk10@soas.ac.uk
- Telephone number
- +44 (0)20 7898 4288
Biography
Griseldis gained her MA and PhD degrees in Contemporary Japanese Studies at the University of Trier, Germany.
She is a specialist on Japanese media, particularly television and cinema in the present day. Before coming to SOAS, she taught at the University of Trier and the University of Würzburg, and held a PhD scholarship at the German Institute for Japanese Studies in Tokyo.
Her PhD on Representations of China was funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft. She has published widely in the field of Japanese media with particular respect to Otherness and war memory. Griseldis has also acted as a consultant for the Amazon Prime series The Man in the High Castle (seasons 1 and 2) and the BBC/Netflix production Giri/Haji.
Research interests
Japanese Media, Television drama
PhD Supervision
| Name | Title |
|---|---|
| Mr Laurence Green | From score to song - The rise of the ‘star composer’ and the role of music in contemporary anime |
| Lewis Hyde | Japanese Lucifer: An Analysis of the Abrahamic Devil in Contemporary Japanese Media and Culture, and a Cross-cultural Comparison with the Western Devil. |
| Declan John Prout | "I'm still me": Hauntologies of the hyogaki sedai in Sci-Fi Anime of the 1990s and 2000s |
| Akiko Nagata | An Analysis of Family and Gender Roles in Japanese Television Drama |
| Luca Proietti | A noisy engagement: Analysis on the cultural awareness in Japanese noise music |
| Ms Michiko Suzuki | History of Disaster, Recovery, and Humanitarianism: The Japanese Red Cross Society in the Modern World, 1877-1945 |
Publications
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