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Gwyn McClelland is located on Anaiwan land in Armidale, NSW, Australia. He is Chief Investigator on a current research project examining memory and history on the Goto Archipelago in the nineteenth century (Japan Foundation Fellowship 2021) and is editor with Dr Hannah Gould of an upcoming edited collection to be published by Pennsylvania State University tentatively titled Scentscapes of Asia’. He has forthcoming articles in History Workshop Journal, Shima Journal and Japanese Studies. His monograph, Dangerous Memory in Nagasaki is now available in paperback, courtesy of Routledge, 2021. McClelland is accepting PhD students at the University of New England, where he currently teaches in the areas of History, Language and Socio-linguistics.

Dr McClelland is also a two-time contributor to New Voices in Japanese Studies. See his author profile.
(September 2021)

Brown, Alexander

Japan Women’s University, Tokyo

Guest Editor, Volume 12
Articles: Introduction (NVJS 12)

[Review] Japan in Australia: Culture, Context and Connections (NVJS 12)

Alexander Brown is a Japan Society for the Promotion of Science International Research Fellow based at Japan Women’s University and an Honorary Associate at University of Technology Sydney. Alexander has taught at several universities in the Sydney region over the past six years. His research focuses on social movements, particularly the anti-nuclear movement in Japan which is the subject of his monograph, Anti-nuclear Protest in Post-Fukushima Tokyo (Routledge, 2018). He is currently looking at the ways in which transnational social movements connect Japan with the broader Asia-Pacific region. Alexander is also  passionate about translating Japanese social science research for English-speaking audiences, most recently Shimizu Hiromu’s Grassroots Globalization (Kyoto University Press and Trans Pacific Press, 2019).
(August 2019)

Dalton, Emma

RMIT University, Melbourne

Guest Editor, Volume 11

Article: Introduction (NVJS 11)

Emma Dalton is a Japanese lecturer in the School of Global, Urban and Social Studies at RMIT University. She has lectured at universities in Australia, New Zealand and Japan for over a decade in the areas of Japanese language and Japanese and Asian Studies. Her research interests include the relationship between women and the Japanese state, and especially the position of women in politics. She publishes widely for academic, student and media audiences.
(September 2018)

Bailey, Penny

The University of Queensland

Guest Editor, Volume 10
Article: Introduction (NVJS 10)

Penny Bailey is a researcher in Japanese studies and art history at The University of Queensland. Her research focuses on Japanese and Korean art history and design, particularly in the modern period. Her doctoral thesis examines the ways in which the founder of Japan’s Mingei (Folk Craft) Movement, Yanagi Sōetsu, theorised Korean visual cultures during Korea’s colonial period (1910—45). She has published articles, translations and reviews in International Review of Korean Studies, Review of Japanese Culture and Society, Japanese Studies, Asian Studies Review and TAASA Review (The Asian Arts Society of Australia).
(May 2018)

Krischer, Olivier

Australian National University

Guest Editor, Volume 9
Article: Introduction (NVJS 9)

Olivier Krischer is a Post-doctoral Fellow at the Australian Centre on China in the World, Australian National University, and currently Visiting Fellow at Academia Sinica, Taiwan. He is interested in the role of art in modern and contemporary Japan-China relations, and networks of artistic activism across East Asia. He is co-editor of the journal special issue “Asian Art Research in Australia and New Zealand: Past, Present and Future”, Australia & New Zealand Journal of Art (Taylor & Francis, 2016) and Asia through Art and Anthropology (Bloomsbury, 2013). His recent curatorial projects include “Zhang Peili: from Painting to Video” (2016), for which he is currently editing a collection of essays to be published later this year.
(June 2017)

Broinowski, Adam

Australian National University

Guest Editor, Volume 8
Articles: Introduction (NVJS 8)

Yaneura – The Attic (NV 1)

Adam Broinowski profile photo

Adam Broinowski is an ARC DECRA Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the School of Culture, History and Language at the Centre for Asia and the Pacific at the Australian National University. He holds a PhD from the Centre for Ideas, Victoria College of the Arts, and the School of Philosophical and Historical Studies, University of Melbourne. Prior to this, Dr Broinowski has held research fellow positions at the University of Tokyo and Deakin University, lecturer positions at the University of Melbourne and Victoria College of the Arts, and has managed the performing arts program at Asialink. His first monograph, Cultural Responses to Occupation in Japan: The Performing Body during the Cold War and After, was released by Bloomsbury in early 2016.
(July 2016)

Dr. Shelley Brunt is a Senior Lecturer in Music and Media, in the School of Media and Communications at RMIT University in Melbourne. Her specialties include Japanese popular music and culture, with a focus on one of Japan’s biggest annual music events, Kohaku Utagassen. Dr. Brunt was the recipient of a Japan Foundation Short-Term Fellowship in 2013 for her research project, Can Songs Heal Japan? Building National Identity and Societal Resilience through a Televised Song Contest’.
(July 2015)

Moore, Katrina

University of New South Wales

Guest Editor, Volume 6
Article: Introduction (NV 6)

Dr Katrina Moore is a Lecturer of Anthropology at the School of Social Sciences in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of New South Wales. She specialises in the study of ageing and gender in Japan, and has published articles on Japanese performing arts, identity and self-actualisation in old age, and the transformation of marital relationships in later life. Katrina supervises postgraduate and honours students and regularly reviews books and journal articles for anthropology and Japanese studies journals.
(January 2014)

Karlsson, Mats

University of Sydney

Guest Editor, Volume 5
Article: Introduction (NV 5)

Dr Mats Karlsson lectures in Japanese Studies at the University of Sydney. He researches and teaches on modern Japanese literature and cinema, as well as on social problems in contemporary Japan. He is currently working on a monograph manuscript dealing with material aspects and practical outcomes of the Proletarian cultural movement in Japan around 1930. Recent publications include ”Kurahara Korehito’s Road to Proletarian Realism”, Nichibunken Japan Review 20 (2008) and ”United Front from Below: The Proletarian Cultural Movement’s Last Stand, 1931—34″, Journal of Japanese Studies 37:1, Winter (2011).
(December 2011)

Suter, Rebecca

University of Sydney

Guest Editor, Volume 4
Article: Introduction (NV 4)

Dr Rebecca Suter is a lecturer in Japanese Studies at the University of Sydney. Her main research interest is in modern Japanese literature and comparative literature. Her first book, The Japanization of Modernity, focuses on contemporary Japanese writer Murakami Haruki’s role as a cultural mediator between Japan and the United States. She is currently working on issues of translation and cross-cultural representation between Asia and the West, concentrating on the phenomenon of the Japanization’ of Western culture and the way it challenges current views of colonialism, postcolonialism and globalisation. She also works as a translator of manga, and has translated works by Shinohara Chie, Anno Moyoko, Asano Inio and Unita Yumi, among others.
(January 2011)

de Matos, Christine

University of Wollongong

Guest Editor, Volume 3
Articles: Introduction (NV 3)

The Occupier and the Occupied: A Nexus of Memories (NV 1)

Dr Christine de Matos is a Research Fellow in the Centre for Asia Pacific Social Transformation Studies (CAPSTRANS) at the University of Wollongong. She is currently analysing the everyday practice of power in relations between Australians and Japanese during the Allied Occupation of Japan (1945-1952). Her recent publications include Imposing Peace and Prosperity: Australia, Social Justice and Labour Reform in Occupied Japan (2008) and a collection of papers co-edited with Robin Gerster titled Occupying the Other’: Australia and military occupations from Japan to Iraq (2009).
(December 2009)

Stavros, Matthew

University of Sydney

Guest Editor, Volume 2
Article: Introduction (NV 2)

Dr Matthew Stavros is a lecturer in Japanese Studies at the University of Sydney, specializing in the urban history and architecture of Kyoto during the medieval era. Dr Stavros trained in architectural and urban history at Kyoto University and studied Japanese history at Princeton University. He is, annually, a visiting researcher at the University of Tokyo’s Historiographical Institute.
(December 2008)

Sone, Yuji

Macquarie University

Guest Editor, Volume 1
Article: Introduction: New Voices Between Cultures (NV 1)

Dr Yuji Sone is a lecturer in performance and digital culture at Macquarie University. His research focuses on the cross-disciplinary conditions of mediated performance and the terms that may be appropriate for analysing such work, especially from cross-cultural perspectives such as Japanese culture and performance. Yuji was the coordinator of the Japan Foundation, Sydney’s 10th Anniversary Forum in 2003.
(December 2006)

Elicia O’Reilly took on the role of Series Editor in the early stages of Volume 6 and has since launched a number of initiatives to expand the journal, including the journal rebrand (from Volume 7) and the New Voices Scholar Program. Her final volume as Series Editor was Volume 13, the ‘Beyond Japanese Studies’ special issue, which she initiated in collaboration with Volume 13 Guest Editor Dr Gwyn McClelland as part of a broader symposium project to support emerging scholars. Elicia has degrees in literature and communication management, and extensive lived experience working in Japan and Japan-related contexts. Prior to NVJS, she worked in writing, editing, translating and communications roles in the cultural, corporate and tertiary education sectors, in both Australia and Japan.
(September 2021)

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