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.
Japanese Lucifer: An Analysis of the Abrahamic Devil in Contemporary Japanese Media and Culture, and a Cross-cultural Comparison with the Western Devil.
Review:‘Graburn, Nelson H.H., John Ertl, R. Kenji Tierney (eds.): Multiculturalism in the New Japan. Crossing the Boundaries Within. New York: Berghahn Books.'
Review of: ‘Sabine Frühstück, Uneasy Warriors: Gender, Memory and Popular Culture in the Japanese Army’.” Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2007.
Kirsch, Griseldis, 2008, East Asia: An International Quarterly (25), 2, pp 211-213
Imagining Alternative Pasts: Imperial Nostalgia on Japanese Television
Kirsch, Griseldis (2022). In: Mithani, Forum, (eds.) and Kirsch, Griseldis, (eds.), Handbook of Japanese Media and Popular Culture in Transition. Tokyo: Japan Documents, pp 3-16
Kirsch, Griseldis and Mithani, Forum (2022). In: Mithani, Forum, (eds.) and Kirsch, Griseldis, (eds.), Handbook of Japanese Media and Popular Culture in Transition. Tokyo: Japan Documents, pp xiii-xxvii
Japan's Charm Offensive: NHK World-Japan and Soft Power
Kirsch, Griseldis (2021). In: Brook, Thomas, (eds.) and Ohashi, Kantaro, (eds.), 他者をめぐる人文学 グロバール世界における翻訳・媒介・伝達 : Adaptation, Mediation and Communication of Otherness in a Globalizing World: Perspectives from Japan. Kobe: Kobe University Press, pp 152-166
Recreating Memory? The Drama Watashi wa Kai ni Naritai and Its Remakes
Kirsch, Griseldis (2019). In: Guarné, Blai, (eds.), Lozano-Méndez, Artur, (eds.) and Martinez, Dolores, (eds.), Persistently Postwar: Media and the Politics of Memory in Japan. Oxford: Berghahn, pp 85-102
Crossing Borders, Building Bridges: 'Asian Stars' in Japanese TV Drama
Gössmann, Hilaria and Kirsch, Griseldis (2014). In: Kim, Jeongmee, (ed.), Reading Asian Television Drama: Crossing Borders and Breaking Boundaries. London: I.B. Tauris, pp 147-168
Visionen eines heterogenen Japan? Internationalität und Identitätskonstruktionen in japanischen Fernsehdramen
Kirsch, Griseldis (2011). In: Köhn, Stephan, (eds.) and Schimmelpfennig, Michael, (eds.), China, Japan und das Andere. Ostasiatische Identitäten im Zeitalter des Transkulturellen. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, pp 53-74