Workshop supporter Prof. Orbaugh, who has written most recently on the construction and maintenance of discourses of identity in post war Japanese literature with a focus on the authors’ representations of the gaze, the body, language, and social performance, will be both a presenter and moderator. She is also an expert on cyborg feminism, Japanese popular culture and science fiction.

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Recent Publications, Performances or Presentations

1) "Raced Bodies and the Public Sphere in Ichikawa Kon's Tokyo Olympiad." Historical Consciousness, Historiography, and Modern Japanese Values, Ed. James C. Baxter. Kyoto: International Research Center for Japanese Studies, 2007. 297-324.
2) Japanese Fiction of the Allied Occupation: vision, embodiment, identity. Boston: Leiden, 2007.
3) "Frankenstein and the Cyborg Metropolis: The Evolution of Body and City in Science Fiction Narratives." Cinema Anime: Critical Engagements with Japanese Animation. Ed. Steven Brown. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan; 2006. 81-111.