FASS Staff Profile

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR SHAMOON, DEBORAH MICHELLE
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
DEPARTMENT of JAPANESE STUDIES

Appointment:
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
Office:
AS8/05-03
Email:
dshamoon@nus.edu.sg
Tel:
6516-8934
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Homepage:
http://profile.nus.edu.sg/fass/jpssdm/
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Brief Introduction

Deborah Shamoon is an Associate Professor in the Department of Japanese Studies. She was born and raised in the United States, and completed her MA at the University of Washington, Seattle in 1999 and PhD at the University of California, Berkeley in 2005, both in modern Japanese literature. Her areas of expertise are Japanese literature, film and popular culture, particularly manga (comics) and animation. She received a Monbusho grant for MA research at Ritsumeikan in 1997, a Japan Foundation Grant for research at Waseda University in 2003 and 2009, and a Research Mobility Grant at Meiji University in 2020. Dr. Shamoon's research focuses on representations of girls and young women in Japanese media (film, anime, manga, novels, magazines) from the 1920s to the present day. Her book, Passionate Friendship: The Aesthetics of Girls' Culture in Japan (University of Hawai'i Press, 2012) is a cultural history of shojo manga (girls' romance comics).
 


Teaching Areas

  • JS2213 Popular Culture in Contemporary Japan
  • JS3230 Men and Women in Modern Japanese Literature
  • JS3217 Japanese Art and Aesthetics
  • JS4230 Advanced Readings in Popular Culture
  • GEK2022 Samurai, Geisha and Yakuza as Self or Other

Graduate Supervision

  • Jeremy Lim Hon Lee, MA. "Re-examining and Re-evaluation Otaku Consumption: A Poststructuralist Approach to Slice-of-Life Anime." 2018.
  • Kania Arini Sukotjo, PhD. "Comparative Study of Fujoshi Communities in Japan and Indonesia." 2020.
  • Shweta Arora, PhD. "The Significance of Female Consciousness and Identity in Yosano Akiko's Novels: A Special Reference to Roko no tegami."
  • Kim Mijin, MA. "Classical Music in Japan: A Cultural Analysis of Western Art Music in Anime and Manga."

Research Interests

modern Japanese literature, film and popular culture; manga and anime; shojo bunka (girls' culture); gender studies and media studies; pedagogy of teaching popular culture


Publications

BOOKS/MONOGRAPHS AUTHORED

CHAPTERS IN BOOKS

  • "The Superflat Space of Japanese Anime." Asian Cinema and the Use of Space: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, ed. Edna Lim and Lilian Chee. Routledge Advances in Film Studies, vol. 36. New York: Routledge, 2015, 93-108.
  • “Films on Paper: Cinematic Narrative in Gekiga.” Mangatopia: Essays on Manga and Anime in the Modern World. Ed. Timothy Perper and Martha Cornog. Libraries Unlimited, 2011. 21-36.
  • "Humanity Grows Up: Lacan and the Science Fiction Manga To Terra." Manga and Philosophy. Ed. Adam Barkman and Josef Steiff. Open Court Press, 2010. 149-159

ARTICLES IN JOURNALS

  • "The Yōkai in the Database: Supernatural Creatures and Folklore in Manga and Anime." Marvels & Tales: Journal of Fairy-Tale Studies. 27.2 (Fall): 2013. 276-289.
  • "The Modern Girl and the Vamp: Hollywood Film in Tanizaki Jun'ichirō's Early Novels." positions: east asia cultures critique. 20.4 (Fall): 2012. 1067-1093.
  • "Casshern and the Spectre of Japan's War Crimes in Asia." Journal of Japanese and Korean Cinema. 2.2 (Aug 2011): 147-162.
  • "Teaching Japanese Popular Culture." ASIANetwork Exchange: A Journal for Asian Studies in the Liberal Arts. 17.2 (Spring 2010): 9-22.
  • "Misora Hibari and the Girl Star in Postwar Japanese Cinema." Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society. 35:1 (2009). 131-155.

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