Dr Nicola Liscutin

Nicola Liscutin MA (Hamburg); PhD (Cambridge) is Programme Director of Japanese Cultural Studies at Birkbeck College, University of London. Her teaching and research expertise are in Japanese cultural history; memory cultures in East Asia; issues of trans/national, ethnic, and gender identities in colonial and post-colonial East Asia; and Japanese literature, especially women’s writing.

Among her recent publications are ‘Surfing the neo-nationalist wave: a case study of Manga Kenkanryû’ (2009); Cultural Studies and Cultural Industries in Northeast Asia: What a Difference a Region Makes (co-editor with C. Berry and J.D. Mackintosh). Hong Kong University Press, 2009. Her book, Unerhörte Erinnerungen: Zur Geschichte der ‚Trostfrauen’ des Kaiserlich-Japanischen Militärs [Stories untold, memories unheard of: Japanese and East-Asian discourses on the Japanese military ‘comfort women’ system during WW II]. Hamburg: Hamburger Edition, is due to be published in spring 2011.
http://www.bbk.ac.uk/culture/our-staff/nicola_liscutin