Programmes Convened

• BA East Asian Studies (2022)
• BA East Asian Studies and ... (2022)
• BA Japanese (2022)
• BA Japanese and... (2022)
• MA Japanese Studies (2018)
• MA Japanese Studies (2019)
• MA Japanese Studies (Dual Degree Programme) (2018)
• MA Japanese Studies (Dual Degree Programme) (2019)
• MA Japanese Studies (Dual Degree Programme) (2020)
• MA Japanese Studies (Dual Degree Programme) (2021)
• MA Japanese Studies (Dual Degree Programme) (2022)
• MA Japanese Studies (Literature Pathway) (not running 2019/20) (2018)

Modules Taught

• Censoring Japan: A Socio-Cultural History of Japanese Television
• Contemporary Japanese Society
• Contemporary Japanese Society (PG)
• Cool Japan: Manga, Anime, Sushi
• Dissertation in Japanese Studies
• Dissertation in the Languages and Cultures of Japan and Korea
• East Asian Cinema (PG)
• East Asian Cinema (UG)
• Gender and Society in Contemporary Japan (PG)
• History and Memory in East Asian Cultures
• Intensive Japanese 2 (Summer Abroad)
• Japanese Cinema (PG)
• Japanese Cinema (UG)
• Nation and Identity in Contemporary Japan (PG)

PhD Students supervised

• Akiko Nagata, An Analysis of Family and Gender Roles in Japanese Television Drama
• Elaine Chung, Transnational Korean Stardom in Chinese Screen Media, 2000-2016
• Emma Horsley-Heather, NHK's children's broadcasting and its effect on Japanese identity and homogeneity
• Laurence Green, From score to song - The rise of the ‘star composer’ and the role of music in contemporary anime
• Lois Barnett, An Investigation of Audience Responses To and Motivations for the Use of Western-Inspired Costume in Japanese Cinema (1923-39)
• Luca Proietti, A noisy engagement: an analysis on the conscious awareness in Japanese noise music
• Michiko Suzuki, History of Disaster, Recovery, and Humanitarianism: The Japanese Red Cross Society in the Modern World, 1877-1945

Japanese Media, Television drama

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Available for

• TV
• Radio
• Press
• Briefings
• Special Study Programmes
• Short Term Consultancy
• Long Term Consultancy

Regional Expertise

• East Asia

Country Expertise

• Japan

Languages

• German
• Japanese

Authored Books

Kirsch, Griseldis (2015) Contemporary Sino-Japanese Relations on Screen, A History, 1989-2005. London: Bloomsbury.

Articles

Kirsch, Griseldis (2019) 'Gendering the Japanese Empire: Ri Kōran as ‘Transnational’ Star?'. Arts, (8) 4, pp 1-8.

Kirsch, Griseldis (2019) 'Whose Choice? Watching non-English language Films in the UK'. Multilingua, (38) 5, pp 619-624.

Kirsch, Griseldis (2016) 'Who 'We' Are: Otherness, Nationalism and the Media'. Crossing Boundaries in Culture and Communication, (7) 1, pp 110-123.

Kirsch, Griseldis (2016) 'Japan in the Global Context - (Some) Challenges in the 21st Century'. Romanian Economic and Business Review, (10) 4, pp 199-214.

Kirsch, Griseldis and Gössmann, Hilaria (2014) 'Nostalgia for 'Asian' Traditions and Energy: Encounters with Chinese and Koreans in Japanese TV Drama'. Global Ethnographic, (2) 1, pp 1-33.

Kirsch, Griseldis (2014) 'Next-door divas: Japanese tarento, television and consumption'. Journal of Japanese and Korean Cinema, (6) 1, pp 74-88.

Kirsch, Griseldis (2012) 'Memory and Myth: The Bombings of Dresden and Hiroshima in German and Japanese TV Drama'. Contemporary Japan, (24) 1, pp 51-70.

Kirsch, Griseldis (2008) 'Partner oder Gegner? Begegnungen mit China, Taiwan und Hongkong in Kinofilm und Fernsehdrama in Japan'. Japan 2008. Politik, Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft, (31), pp 241-265.

Edited Books or Journals

Kirsch, Griseldis and Martinez, Dolores and White, Merry, (eds.), (2015) Assembling Japan: Modernity, Technology and Global Culture. Bern: Peter Lang.

Book Chapters

Kirsch, Griseldis (2022) 'Behind the Voice that Brought Peace: The Emperor as Hero in The Emperor in August (Harada Masato, 2015)'. In: Desser, David, (ed.), A Companion to Japanese Cinema. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, pp 352-368.

Kirsch, Griseldis (2021) 'Japan's Charm Offensive: NHK World-Japan and Soft Power'. In: Brook, Thomas 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.

Kirsch, Griseldis (2019) 'Recreating Memory? The Drama Watashi wa Kai ni Naritai and Its Remakes'. In: Guarné, Blai and Lozano-Méndez, Artur and Martinez, Dolores, (eds.), Persistently Postwar: Media and the Politics of Memory in Japan. Oxford: Berghahn Books, pp 85-102.

Kirsch, Griseldis (2015) 'Relocating Japan? Japan, China and the West in Japanese Television Dramas'. In: Kirsch, Griseldis and Martinez, Dolores and White, Merry, (eds.), Assembling Japan: Modernity, Technology and Global Culture. Bern: Peter Lang, pp 113-133.

Kirsch, Griseldis and Martinez, Dolores (2015) 'Japan as an Assemblage'. In: Kirsch, Griseldis and Martinez, Dolores and White, Merry, (eds.), Assembling Japan: Modernity, Technology and Global Culture. Bern: Peter Lang, pp 1-19.

Kirsch, Griseldis and Manzenreiter, Wolfram and Horne, John and White, Merry and Katsuno, Hirofumi and Martinez, Dolores (2015) 'Afterword: Reassembling after 3/11'. In: Kirsch, Griseldis and Martinez, Dolores and White, Merry, (eds.), Assembling Japan: Modernity, Technology and Global Culture. Bern: Peter Lang, pp 231-238.

Gössmann, Hilaria and Kirsch, Griseldis (2014) 'Crossing Borders, Building Bridges: 'Asian Stars' in Japanese TV Drama'. In: Kim, Jeongmee, (ed.), Reading Asian Television Drama: Crossing Borders and Breaking Boundaries. London: I.B. Tauris, pp 147-168.

Kirsch, Griseldis (2011) 'Visionen eines heterogenen Japan? Internationalität und Identitätskonstruktionen in japanischen Fernsehdramen'. In: Köhn, Stephan and Schimmelpfennig, Michael, (eds.), China, Japan und das Andere. Ostasiatische Identitäten im Zeitalter des Transkulturellen. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, pp 53-74.

Kirsch, Griseldis and Gössmann, Hilaria (2011) 'Eine Brücke über das 'tiefe weite Meer'? Japanisch-koreanische Begegnungen im Genre Fernsehdrama in Japan (2003-2009)'. In: Gössmann, Hilaria and Mrugalla, Andreas and Jaschke, Renate, (eds.), Interkulturelle Begegnungen in Literatur, Film und Fernsehen. Ein deutsch-japanischer Vergleich. Munich: Iuidicium, pp 261-281.

Kirsch, Griseldis (2009) 'Japanisch-chinesische Begegnungen im Genre Yakuza-Film [Japanese-Chinese Encounters in the yakuza-film genre]'. In: Distelrath, Günther, (ed.), Refereate des 13. Deutschsprachigen Japanologentags, Band 1 Kultur und Sprachwissenschaft. Bonner Asienstudien Band 8/1. Berlin: EBVerlag, pp 177-192.

Kirsch, Griseldis (2007) 'Spiritual Healing in China? Encounters with the People's Republic of China in Japanese Cinema and TV Drama'. In: Schoenbein, M. and Koehn, S., (eds.), Facetten der japanischen Populaer- und Medienkultur 2.. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, pp 45-68.

Conference Items

Kirsch, Griseldis (2002) 'Oolong-Tee oder Instantnudeln - Zum Chinabild in der japanischen Fernsehwerbung' In: 12. German-language conference of Japanese Studies, 2002, Bonn. [Unpublished]

Book Reviews

Kirsch, Griseldis (2018) 'Review of: Yoneyama, Lisa. Cold War ruins: transpacific critique of American justice and Japanese war crimes. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press, 2016.'. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, (24) 2, pp 422-423.

Kirsch, Griseldis (2010) 'Review:‘Graburn, Nelson H.H., John Ertl, R. Kenji Tierney (eds.): Multiculturalism in the New Japan. Crossing the Boundaries Within. New York: Berghahn Books.''. Anthropos 1, pp 276-277.

Kirsch, Griseldis (2008) 'Review of: ‘Sabine Frühstück, Uneasy Warriors: Gender, Memory and Popular Culture in the Japanese Army’.” Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2007.'. East Asia, (25), pp 211-213.

Other

Kirsch, Griseldis (2018) 'Japan and its Other II - Caught between Asia and 'the West'?' Asia Dialogue: The Online Magazine of the University of Nottingham Asia Research Institute.

Kirsch, Griseldis (2018) 'Japan and the Other - Its (not-so-)hidden minorities' Asia Dialogue: The Online Magazine of the University of Nottingham Asia Research Institute.

Kirsch, Griseldis and Cocuz, Ioana and Igrutinovic´, Danica (2017) 'Us and Them: Negotiation National Identities in a Shifting Europe'.

Kirsch, Griseldis (2016) 'Controlling the Media in Japan [Blog Post]' Ballots & Bullets | School of Politics & International Relations, University of Nottingham.

Kirsch, Griseldis (2004) '自由のビジョンとしての「アジア」 テレビドラマにおける女性の異文化接触を中心に (テレビドラマ『香港明星迷』と『本家のヨメ』における女性の異文化接触を中心 に）'. [Unpublished]

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