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Joshua Archer recently completed the Asian Studies Honours program at the University of Sydney. Having a keen interest in Asian history and in Japanese martial arts, Joshua has chosen to specialise in samurai history throughout his academic studies thus far. Joshua is enrolled to study graduate law at the University of Wollongong in 2009.
(December 2008)

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January 30, 2019: Top 10 Articles of 2018 (news post)

Swati Arora is a PhD candidate at Jawaharlal Nehru University, India. Her prime interests pertain to Japan’s foreign policy and environmental conservation, and her PhD dissertation is about “Japan’s Environmental Aid Effectiveness: A Study of Select Asian Countries, 1997-2017.” Swati is a Japan Foundation Japanese Studies Research Fellow (2019-2020) at Waseda University. She has also been a recipient of the Mitsubishi Cooperation International Scholarship (2014-2015) and Yasuda Foundation Scholarship (2015) in recognition of her Japanese language excellence. She developed her current research thesis while on a study trip to Japan organised by Okita Memorial Scholarship (2016-17), awarded for academic excellence.

(September 2021)

Maria Cynthia Barriga finished her PhD in International Studies at Waseda University in 2020, and is an assistant professor at its Global Education Center. Her research focuses on the history of Japanese locals who lived in areas that were under the US in the early 20th century, invaded by Japan in December 1941, and then returned to the US after Japan’s defeat in 1945—specifically, the Philippines and Guam. Approaching the study of Japanese diaspora from the postcolonial perspectives of the Philippines and Guam, she is interested in the value of cross-area studies conversations. Her experiences and insights as a Filipino scholar studying in Japan will be published in New Voices in Japanese Studies. Through the journal’s New Voices Scholar Program, she will present these insights at the Japanese Studies Association of Australia 2021 Conference.

(September 2021)

Luke Beattie completed a Bachelor of Arts majoring in Film and Screen Production and Theatre Studies (2016) followed by an Honours Degree (2017). His Honours dissertation focused on the application of Jacques Derrida’s concept of Hauntology to the Japanese anime series Another (2012). Luke is currently undertaking a PhD at The University of Notre Dame.

(August 2020)

Adam Broinowski has been a member of Gekidan Kaitaisha, researcher at the University of Tokyo, and is presently a PhD candidate at the University of Melbourne/VCA. He has worked in theatre for more than ten years, beginning with Noh, followed by circus, physical theatre, naturalism and experimental theatre.
(December 2006)

Editor’s note: We were pleased to welcome Dr Adam Broinowski back to NVJS in 2016 as Guest Editor of Volume 8.

See more recent news about Adam Broinowski:
November 20, 2019: NVJS Alumni Publications (news post)

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). Alexander is the Guest Editor of NVJS 12 and has contributed a review of Japan in Australia: Culture, Context and Connections to the volume, in addition to the introductory essay.

(August 2020)

See more about Alexander Brown:
August 17, 2020: Volume 12: A Note from the Series Editor (news post)
December 13, 2019: New Voices Scholar Panel Accepted to #ASAA2020 (news post)
November 21, 2019: Guest Editor News (news post)

A. K. Byron graduated from the University of Sydney with First Class Honours for her thesis on cultural responses to Japan’s student protest culture of the 1960s. Byron’s recent research looks at the intersections of language, spirituality and the environment in the Japanese literary context. Her ongoing projects include a study on the use of constructed languages such as Esperanto by twentieth-century Japanese writers. Byron now works as a translator and researcher with interests in fields including poetry, folklore and children’s literature.
(June 2017)

See more about A. K. Byron:
January 30, 2019: Top 10 Articles of 2018 (news post)
October 12, 2018: The New Academy Prize: Haruki Murakami Reading List (news post)

Yuan Cai has a Masters degree in Oriental Studies from St Anthony’s College, Oxford University. He is currently doing a PhD on the history of Pan-Asianist movement at the University of Adelaide. His research interests encompass the history of Pan-Asianism and the Japanese peace movement.
(December 2008)

Rikki Campbell holds a Master of Applied Japanese Linguistics from Monash University, Melbourne. Currently, she is a Doctoral candidate and is continuing to explore the relationship between study abroad and Japanese learners’ social networks at Monash, where she also teaches part-time in the Japanese program.
(December 2011)

Geraldine Carney is a PhD candidate at the School of Languages, Literatures, Cultures and Linguistics at Monash University. She holds a Bachelor of Arts (Hons.)/Law from the University of Melbourne and a Masters of Japanese Interpreting and Translation from Monash University. Her research interests include family law, international relations and human rights in relation to the issue of parental abduction. She lives in Melbourne where she works as a lawyer.

Geraldine was selected for the New Voices Scholar program in 2016.
(July 2016)

See more about Geraldine Carney:
August 4, 2020: Academic Appointments for NVJS Alumni (news post)
July 13, 2016: 2016 New Voices Scholars at ASAA (news post)
June 18, 2016: Meet Our New Voices Scholars (news post)

Niamh Champ was born and raised in Queensland and has had a keen interest in second language learning and culture from a young age. At the University of Queensland, she pursued her interest in second language learning and teaching, completing a Bachelor of Arts majoring in Japanese and French (Honours in Japanese), and a graduate Diploma in Education (secondary). She is a registered teacher with the Queensland College of Teachers and a qualified ESL teacher who would like to further her research in the domain of SLA.
(February 2014)

Sally Chan has demonstrated a great interest in Japan and Japanese since she was young. This interest manifested as she studied Japanese throughout her secondary studies, and carried over to her tertiary studies. She is also interested in the study of psychology in relation to language, and how cognitive processes affect language construction. Integrating her language abilities of Japanese, Chinese and English, and her research knowledge acquired from her undergraduate studies in Psychology, she completed an Honours thesis with outstanding results.
(February 2014)

Hei-Lei Cheng graduated from the Australian National University in 2014 with a Bachelor of Economics/Asia-Pacific Studies (Honours). Her research interests are centred on violence against women and how attitudes around this issue are developed. In particular, she is interested in how rape prevention education is conducted, the development of safe spaces for women in the digital realm, and the representation of sexual violence across various forms of entertainment media.
(July 2016)

Originally from Auckland, Hamish Clark completed an Honours degree in History at The University of Melbourne in 2018. Since then, he has spent a year with the JET Programme teaching English in Oita City, Japan. From September, Hamish will begin studying advanced Japanese in Yokohama with the Inter-University Centre for Japanese, run by Stanford University.

(August 2020)

Laura Emily Clark completed her PhD in 2020 from the University of Queensland with a focus on gender ideals and masculinities within the works of Haruki Murakami. Laura received a Bachelor of Arts in Writing and Creative Communication at the University of South Australia. She works as a tutor at UQ and the University of New England, and is also a freelance editor. She was selected as a Japan Foundation Fellow at Waseda University in 2017 and spent 2020 at Showa Women’s University as recipient of the Mariko Bando Fellowship. Her research interests include contemporary Japanese female author’s representation of ‘normality’ and urban consumer spaces in media.
(September 2021)

See more about Laura Clark:
August 17, 2020: Volume 12: A Note from the Series Editor (news post)
October 12, 2018: The New Academy Prize: Haruki Murakami Reading List (news post)

Rebecca Corbett is a PhD candidate in the Department of Japanese and Korean Studies at the University of Sydney. She is researching the history of women in chanoyu (tea) for her doctorate. From September 2005 to July 2006, she was based at the International Research Center for Japanese Studies in Kyoto, supported by a Japan Foundation Fellowship.
(December 2006)

Claudia Craig graduated from University of London, Birkbeck College in 2008 with a Master of Arts, Japanese Cultural Studies, earning a distinction. She completed her undergraduate degree in Japanese language at the University of Western Australia where she also studied law. In 1991, Claudia was awarded a Japanese Government Monbusho Scholarship to undertake legal research at Ritsumeikan University in Kyoto. Her interests are now centred in Japanese society, design and literature.
(February 2014)

See more about Claudia Craig:
December 11, 2018: Spotlight on the Meiji Era (news post)

Daniel Curtis was awarded First Class Honours and the University Medal in Japanese Studies from the University of New South Wales in 2009, after completing a degree in International Studies.
(January 2011)

Kathleen Cusack graduated from the University of Wollongong in 2008 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Japanese and was awarded First Class Honours. In 2007, Kathleen studied as an exchange student at Doshisha University in Kyoto.
(December 2008)

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 researching a social history of Australians and Japanese during the Allied Occupation of Japan. Dr De Matos was a 2004 Japan Foundation Fellow.
(December 2006)

Editor’s Note: We were pleased to welcome Dr Christine de Matos back in 2009 as Guest Editor of Volume 3. 

See more recent news about Christine de Matos:
November 20, 2019: NVJS Alumni Publications (news post)

Jared Denman was awarded First Class Honours in Japanese at The University of Queensland in 2008, after completing an Arts (Japanese)/Education dual degree. He is currently a PhD candidate with the School of Languages and Comparative Cultural Studies and is examining the transnational experience of ageing among first-generation migrants from the local Japanese diaspora.
(December 2009)

See more about Jared Denman:
January 30, 2019: Top 10 Articles of 2018 (news post)
January 30, 2018: Top 10 Articles of 2017 (news post)

Levi Durbidge is a PhD candidate at Monash University. He has been involved in international language education for over 15 years in both Japan and Australia. His research looks at how increasing technologisation and international flows of people and information are shaping how and why people learn languages. His current project explores the multilingual study abroad experiences of Japanese adolescents and how this affects their language development and sense of self over the longer term.
(July 2019)

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August 4, 2020: Academic Appointments for NVJS Alumni (news post)

Philip N. Eate graduated in 2007 with First Class Honours in Asian Studies at the University of Adelaide. He is currently a PhD candidate at Adelaide researching new forms of pilgrimage and spiritual quest in Japan.
(December 2008)

Adam Eldridge completed an Arts/Law degree at Monash University in 2005. Following this, he lived and worked in Japan for three years. Adam returned to Australia and Monash University in 2009 where he obtained First Class Honours. This paper is an abridged version of his 18,000 word thesis completed as a part of those studies. Adam is currently working for the Australian government as a legal officer and also manages a Japanese language school in Canberra. He is currently undertaking a Masters of Law at the Australian National University but is seeking to pursue further studies and research into Japan and international relations.
(February 2014)

Gian Marco Farese is a PhD student in Linguistics at ANU. In his research, he adopts the Natural Semantic Metalanguage approach to semantic analysis to investigate the cultural semantics of salutations, forms of address and leave-taking phrases in English and in Italian. Gian Marco’s research interests include cultural semantics, cultural linguistics, cross-cultural and intercultural communication and also Japanese language, culture and linguistics. Before coming to ANU, he received a BA in Cultural and Linguistic Mediation from the University of Naples L’Orientale (2011) and a Master in English Linguistics from University College London (2013).
(July 2016)

See more about Gian Marco Farese:
January 30, 2019: Top 10 Articles of 2018 (news post)
January 30, 2018: Top 10 Articles of 2017 (news post)

Monica Flint graduated from The University of Sydney with a Bachelor of Arts (Languages) (Honours) in 2017. She also studied at the University of Tokyo for two semesters (2015-16) under the Abroad in Komaba exchange program. She wrote her Honours thesis on Okinawa and the US military presence after becoming interested in the island prefecture whilst travelling there during her exchange.
(July 2018)

Monica Flint was selected for the New Voices Scholar Program in 2020.

See more about Monica Flint:
December 13, 2019: New Voices Scholar Panel Accepted to #ASAA2020 (news post)

Daniel Flis recently graduated with a Bachelor of Asian Studies and a Bachelor of Arts Honours (First Class) from Murdoch University in Perth, Australia. He also completed a one‑year program studying Japanese language, culture and history at Ryukoku University in Kyoto, Japan. Currently, Daniel is completing further post-graduate studies in Perth, with plans to return to Japan in the near future. This paper is an adaptation of his Honours thesis, reflecting his interests in Japanese society, gender politics and literary analysis.
(July 2018)

Daniel was selected for the New Voices Scholar Program in 2019.

See more about Daniel Flis:
January 31, 2019: 2019 New Voices Scholars Announced! (news post)

Lucy Fraser graduated from The University of Queensland in 2007 with an Arts Degree in Literary and Japanese Studies. Lucy was awarded First Class Honours in Japanese Literature, as well as a University Medal. This year she will continue her research at Ochanomizu University. Lucy has also translated short fiction by Akutagawa Prize nominee Hoshino Tomoyuki.
(December 2008)

See more recent news about Lucy Fraser:
November 20, 2019: NVJS Alumni Publications (news post)

Elise Foxworth has a Masters Degree in Japanese Studies from Monash University. She is currently working on a doctoral dissertation: Ethnicity and Identity in the Japanese Literature of Three Korean Writers in Japan: Kim Sok Pom, Lee Hoe Sung and Kim Ha Gyong, at the University of Melbourne. She lectures in Japanese Studies.
(December 2006)

Amelia Groom was awarded First Class Honours in Writing and Cultural Studies at the University of Technology, Sydney in 2007. She is currently a Sydney-based freelance writer, curator and researcher who edits www.biginjapan.com.au.
(January 2011)

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August 17, 2020: Volume 12: A Note from the Series Editor (news post)

Matthew Grubits graduated from the University of Tasmania in 2008 with Honours in History. He is currently enrolled in a Master of Arts at the University of Tasmania, and is continuing to explore the role of aestheticism in society.
(December 2009)

Jenny Hall is a PhD candidate at the School of Political and Social Inquiry, Monash University. She holds a BA Honours in Archaeology and Anthropology from Cambridge University. Jenny’s research interests include Japanese textiles and design, representations of the self, cultural identity, embodied practices, and visual and sensory ethnography. Her current research comprises a sensory analysis of the design, production and consumption of contemporary Japanese apparel that has been created using heritage industry techniques. Her paper, “The Spirit in the Machine: Mutual Affinities between Humans and Machines in Japanese Textiles” appears in MIT’s Thresholds 42: Human (Spring 2014).
(June 2015)

See more about Jenny Hall:
November 20, 2019: NVJS Alumni Publications (news post)
January 30, 2019: Top 10 Articles of 2018 (news post)
January 30, 2018: Top 10 Articles of 2017 (news post)

Catherine Hallett is a doctoral candidate at the Australian National University. Her current research is on the role and significance of music in rakugo. She spent three months in Osaka in 2011 as an azukari deshi (temporary shamisen apprentice) of master storyteller Hayashiya Somemaru IV. She holds a Bachelor of Music and Bachelor of Arts (Honours, First Class; University Medal) from the University of New South Wales.
(January 2014)

Iori Hamada came to Australia in 2006 as a recipient of the 2006 Endeavour Japan Awards scholarship. She holds a Master of Communication at RMIT. She is currently completing her doctoral thesis on Japanese culinary products and practices in Australia from cross-cultural perspectives.
(December 2011)

Evan Hamman received his PhD in law in 2017. He holds Bachelor degrees in law and commerce and a Masters in environmental science and law. He is currently employed as a lecturer at Queensland University of Technology, where he researches and writes about environmental law in Australia and the Asia-Pacific. He has a particular research interest in the governance of Asia’s wetlands, its migratory waterbirds and its world heritage sites. Dr Hamman is currently co-authoring a book on transnational governance of migratory waterbirds in Asia (forthcoming, Routledge).

(July 2019)

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December 17, 2019: Summer Reading: Spotlight on Conservation (news post)

Rebecca Hausler is a doctoral candidate at the University of Queensland. Her thesis investigates fictional representations of Australian internment and prisoner of war camps which housed Japanese detainees during WWII. She graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (Hons I) in Asian Studies and English Literature. Ms. Hausler’s broader academic interests are in Japan’s transcultural connections with Anglophone nations through popular culture, literature, and film. She has published in the interdisciplinary women’s studies journal Hecate and written articles for the academic news analysis website The Conversation. Ms. Hausler was also a 2019 recipient of the National Library of Australia’s Asia Study Grant.

(July 2019)

See more about Rebecca Hausler:
August 2, 2021: #NVJSAlumni News: Celebrating Achievements by Five Alumni (news post)
August 17, 2020: Volume 12: A Note from the Series Editor (news post)

Tomoko Horikawa is a PhD candidate in the Department of Japanese Studies at the University of Sydney. Her thesis examines the Japanese-Australian diplomatic confrontation over the White Australia Policy between 1894 and 1919. She has a Bachelor of Arts from the International Christian University in Tokyo, a Master’s degree in International Relations (coursework) from Bond University, a research Master’s degree in Japanese Studies from the University of Queensland and a further research Master’s degree in International Relations from Macquarie University.

(August 2020)

Machiko Ishikawa is undertaking doctoral studies at the University of Tasmania supported by an Australian Postgraduate Award. A literary study major, Machiko is currently investigating the writing of Burakumin novelist, Nakagami Kenji, using a framework of post-colonial theory and subaltern studies. Machiko recently contributed a reflective essay (in print) to the journal, Go-oh, published by the Kumano University collective, a group of scholars committed to researching Nakagami’s work. Machiko has worked as a research assistant in the UTAS School of Asian Languages and Studies.
(December 2011)

See more about Machiko Ishikawa:
August 4, 2020: More NVJS Alumni Publications (news post)

Lachlan Jackson is both a lecturer in the Faculty of Policy Science at Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto, and a PhD candidate at the University of Queensland. Lachlan is interested in issues relating to bilingualism, the transmission of intergenerational cultural identity, the discourse of ‘Japaneseness’, and cultural and ethnic diversity in Japan.
(December 2006)

Rose-Ellen Kesselly graduated from the University of Queensland in 2006 after completing a Bachelor of Arts Honours degree in Japanese and Chinese, and a minor in linguistics.
(December 2008)

Rie Kido is a PhD candidate at The University of Adelaide. She gained her MA at The University of Tokyo in 2003 and began teaching at Kwansei Gakuin University in 2009, specializing in educational sociology and the methodology of qualitative research. Rie is interested in interpreting the lived experiences of marginalized youth based on their narratives, and her work focuses on futōkō (school non-attendance), hikikomori and youth unemployment in Japan. Her publications include the monograph Futōkō wa Owaranai [不登校は終わらない], published in 2004.
(July 2016)

Marie Kim is a recent PhD graduate whose doctoral research addressed tales of teenage rebellion as a significant sub-genre of adolescent fiction in Japan. Marie is currently extending her research of Japanese adolescent literature to include more recent literary phenomena, such as mobile phone novels (kētai shōsetsu) and light novels (raito noberu). Marie also holds a Master of Arts and a Master of Literature in Japanese.
(June 2017)

Tets Kimura has been reporting on the whaling conflict as a journalist since 2005 and has published articles both in Australian and Japanese print media in their respective languages. He realised himself opportunely positioned to observe cross-cultural issues between the two countries, and thus decided to conduct academic research. His contribution to New Voices is based on research for his MA degree, which was awarded from the University of South Australia. He is continuing to explore the Australia-Japan relationship as a doctoral candidate at Flinders University, supported by an Australian Postgraduate Award and with co-supervision from the University of Tokyo.
(January 2014)

Gawain Lucian Lax is a game studies PhD candidate at Monash University in the School of Media, Film and Journalism. His thesis work focuses on Japanese boys love games and the ways they can be used to theorise models of transgender embodiment. More broadly, his research interests include dating-simulation games, mobile games and transgender game studies.

(August 2020)

Anne Lee is a PhD candidate at the University of Queensland researching intertextuality in shōjo and boys’ love manga. She received her BA in Japanese Language and Literature at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
(July 2016)

See more about Anne Lee:
August 3, 2020: More NVJS Alumni Publications (news post)
February 8, 2018: Valentine’s Day Reading (news post)
January 30, 2019: Top 10 Articles of 2018 (news post)
January 30, 2018: Top 10 Articles of 2017 (news post)

Kelvin Lee is a PhD candidate at the University of Sydney, where he previously completed his Master in Applied Linguistics and Bachelor of Arts. His main research interests include language and identity, and Japanese popular culture, particularly anime. He is currently working on a thesis examining how language is used to construct characters in popular anime series.
(July 2018)

Rosa Lee graduated from the University of Sydney in 2009 with a combined degree in Arts/Law with First Class Honours in Japanese Studies. With research interests in the social function of popular historical heroes such as Shinsengumi and in the construction of ‘the Japanese’ identity, she is currently exploring Japan as a research student at the Department of Advanced Social and International Studies, University of Tokyo.
(January 2011)

See more about Rosa Lee:
January 30, 2019: Top 10 Articles of 2018 (news post)
January 30, 2018: Top 10 Articles of 2017 (news post)

Esther Lovely was awarded First Class Honours in Japanese at The University of Queensland in 2007, after completing an Arts degree, majoring in Japanese and Korean language. She is currently a Doctoral student with the School of Languages and Comparative Cultural Studies and is examining the acculturation experiences of transnational Korean families in Brisbane who have immigrated for the sake of their child’s English education in Australia.
(January 2011)

Alison Luke graduated from Macquarie University in 2013 with First Class Honours in Japanese Studies (Bachelor of Arts) after completing the Bachelor of International Studies in 2012. She is continuing to explore her interests in Japanese politics and social justice issues by exploring the experiences of female politicians in Japan as part of her PhD research at Macquarie University. A main focus of this research is to analyse the life course of successful female politicians in order to identify the influence of early childhood circumstances and individual characteristics on their ability to access politics and the creative ways that women overcome disadvantage. In addition to my studies I currently teach beginners Japanese, Japanese history and sociology.
(July 2016)

Caroline Mahoney graduated from the University of Technology, Sydney, in 2005 with a combined degree in Journalism and Japanese. In 2008 she was awarded First Class Honours in her Master of Teaching at the University of Sydney. She is currently studying Japanese language education at Waseda University, Tokyo, and working towards her PhD.
(December 2009)

Gwyn McClelland graduated with a PhD in Historical Studies in 2018 and won the Asian Studies Association of Australia John Legge Thesis Prize for best thesis in Asian Studies in 2019. He took up his current post as Japanese Lecturer at the University of New England, Anaiwan Country, in June 2020. His first monograph was published with Routledge in 2019, and he is currently co-editing with Hannah Gould a collection with the working title, ‘Scentscapes: Sensory Exchanges in Asia’, to be published in the Perspectives in Sensory History Series by Penn State University Press. Gwyn McClelland is the Guest Editor of NVJS 13.

(September 2021)

See more about Gwyn McClelland:
August 2, 2021: #NVJSAlumni News: Celebrating Achievements by Five Alumni (news post)
July 30, 2021: 2021 New Voices Scholars Announced! (news post)
June 9, 2021: Meet the NVJS 13 Guest Editor (news post)
June 1, 2021: New Voices Scholar Program 2021 (news post)
February 11, 2021: #BeyondJapan21 Program Now Available (news post)
January 11, 2021: #BeyondJapan21 Symposium:
Keynote Confirmed (news post)
September 4, 2020: NVJS Authors in the Media (news post)
August 4, 2020: Academic Appointments for NVJS Alumni (news post)
November 20, 2019: NVJS Alumni Publications (news post)

Ben McInnes was a resident of Tokyo from 1983 to 2000. Since returning to Australia, he has been a student of Japanese at the University of New England, Armidale, where he is currently engaged in doctoral research into the first Japanese Antarctic expedition of 1910–12.
(December 2006)

Masafumi Monden attended the University of Western Sydney, where he received his Bachelor of Arts degree (Public Communication / History, Philosophy & Politics), and with distinction, his Master of Arts degree in Communication, Media & Culture in 2005. He is currently a second year PhD candidate at the University of Technology, Sydney where he is working on representations of youth in Japanese culture.
(December 2008)

See more about Masafumi Monden:
August 2, 2021: #NVJSAlumni News: Celebrating Achievements by Five Alumni (news post)
August 17, 2020: Volume 12: A Note from the Series Editor (news post)
November 20, 2019: NVJS Alumni Publications (news post)
January 30, 2019: Top 10 Articles of 2018 (news post)
January 30, 2018: Top 10 Articles of 2017 (news post)

Toshiyuki Nakamura has taught Japanese as a foreign language at a high school in China, and in universities in Korea and Australia. He holds a Master in Applied Linguistics for Language Teachers from Monash University, and is currently undertaking doctoral studies to explore Japanese learners’ motivation.
(June 2015)

See more recent news about Toshiyuki Nakamura:
August 4, 2020: Academic Appointments for NVJS Alumni (news post)
August 3, 2020: More NVJS Alumni Publications (news post)

Lisa Narroway recently graduated from the University of Sydney with a Bachelor of Arts (Languages), majoring in Japanese and History. During her studies, she spent a semester in Japan as an exchange student at Kwansei Gakuin University. She was the 2007 recipient of a Department of Japanese Studies Honours Scholarship.
(December 2008)

Miles Neale graduated with Class I Honours from The University of Queensland’s Bachelor of Arts program (majoring in Japanese) in July 2014. He is currently studying Linguistics as a postgraduate research student at Osaka University. He is a recipient of the Japanese Government’s Ministry of Education, Science and Technology (MEXT) Research Scholarship.
(June 2015)

See more about Miles Neale:
January 30, 2019: Top 10 Articles of 2018 (news post)
January 30, 2018: Top 10 Articles of 2017 (news post)

Jindan Ni is a Chinese lecturer in Global and Language Studies at RMIT University, and has worked in the areas of Japanese classical literature, comparative literature and Chinese literature. She received a PhD in Comparative Literature from La Trobe University in 2017 and has published academic papers in Translation Studies, Japanese Literature and Comparative Literature. Her forthcoming monograph The Tale of Genji and its Chinese Precursors: Beyond the Boundaries of Nation, Class and Gender studies transnational literary practices in the premodern Sinographic sphere. She is also an active translator who has translated books from Japanese and English to Chinese.

(August 2020)

Jack Nicholls graduated from the University of Melbourne in 2008 with First Class Honours in History. After dabbling in the outside world for six months, he has now returned to academia to undertake a Master of Environment.
(December 2009)

Chikako Nihei is undertaking a Masters degree by research in Japanese Studies at the University of Sydney. She holds a Master of English literature at the University of Wollongong and a Bachelor of Arts and Science from Tokyo Woman’s Christian University.
(December 2009)

Hiromi Nishioka is a lecturer at Busan Institute of Science and Technology. She has taught Japanese as a foreign language at universities and language schools in Japan, Korea, Taiwan and Australia. She holds an MA in Applied Japanese Linguistics from Monash University, awarded in 2008, and an MA in Applied Linguistics from Macquarie University, awarded in 2011. This paper is a part of a research project she conducted while studying at Monash University. Currently, she is working towards her PhD degree at Pusan National University. Her current research interest is computer- mediated communication (CMC), especially digital storytelling and language learning with technology.
(January 2014)

Sean O’Connell received an MA in Advanced Japanese Studies from Sheffield University and is currently doing a PhD in Intercultural Communication from the University of Queensland. His research interests lay primarily in communication accommodation, expatriate adjustment and intercultural workplace communication.
(December 2006)

Kirsten Orreill holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree with honours (double major Japanese/ Linguistics) from the University of Queensland. In 2006 she was on exchange at the University of Kitakyushu. Kirsten wishes to utilise these experiences of Japan and her knowledge of the Japanese culture, language, and history for future research.
(December 2008)

Fusako Ota holds a Master of Applied Japanese Linguistics from Monash University. She has previously taught Japanese as L2 at St. Paul’s Anglican Grammar School in Victoria and now teaches in the Japanese Program at Monash University.
(January 2011)

Rhiannon Paget holds an MA in Art History and Theory from the University of Sydney, and is currently Curatorial Assistant at the Clark Center for Japanese Art and Culture in Hanford, California. She has contributed research and text to several exhibition catalogues in Australia and the USA, and has published research on the representation of children in ukiyoe. Her current project is an exhibition on Japanese ink painting, Luminosity in Monochrome: Japanese Ink Painting and Calligraphy, which opened 5 September, 2010, at the Clark Center.
(January 2011)

Mayumi Parry has taught Japanese as a foreign language at tertiary level in Australia since 1993. She originally came to Australia as an exchange student. Her research interests are the effects of interactive multimedia applications on teaching language and culture, peer assessment and the effects of participating in exchange programmes.
(December 2006)

Sarah Pasfield-Neofitou was recently awarded First Class Honours in combined Japanese and Linguistics at Monash University, Melbourne. Currently, Sarah is a PhD candidate researching second language acquisition and use in Computer Mediated Communication at Monash, where she also works part-time in the school of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics, teaching Japanese language and linguistics. Sarah is the current Postgraduate Liaison for the Japanese Studies Association of Australia.
(December 2009)

Sonja Petrovic is a final-year PhD candidate at The University of Melbourne’s Asia Institute. Her current research focuses on the intersections of media use, media credibility and individuals’ sense of communal belonging in the context of Japan’s 3.11 disaster. In particular, she is interested in the social aspects of both traditional and new media and their potential to create and foster a sense of community and social connection. Her research interests lie in the area of media sociology, ranging from disaster communication and perceptions of media credibility to digital intimacies and community building in digital space.

(July 2019)

Sonja Petrovic was selected for the New Voices Scholar Program in 2020.

See more recent news about Sonja Petrovic:
September 4, 2020: NVJS Authors in the Media (news post)
August 3, 2020: More NVJS Alumni Publications (news post)
December 13, 2019: New Voices Scholar Panel Accepted to #ASAA2020 (news post)

Crystal Porter graduated from Australian National University in 2007; she has a Bachelor of Asian Studies (Honours) and a Bachelor of Science. She wrote her Honours thesis after becoming interested in the Ainu and their semi-parallel situation with other indigenous groups around the world. She currently lives in Japan, teaching English.
(December 2008)

Mina Qiao is a Master of Arts graduate in Japanese literature from the School of Cultures, Languages and Linguistics at the University of Auckland. She is currently enrolled in the PhD program in Literature at Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich. She works on urban theories and contemporary Japanese women’s writing.
(June 2015)

See more about Mina Qiao:
February 8, 2018: Valentine’s Day Reading (news post)

Kirsti Rawstron is a doctoral candidate at the University of Wollongong. Her current research addresses the effectiveness of United Nations Human Rights Conventions in improving women’s rights in Australia, New Zealand, South Korea, and Japan. She holds a Bachelor of Arts (Honours, First Class) in Japanese Language and Culture and a Bachelor of Commerce in Finance from the University of Otago. She spent a year at the University of Tokyo as part of the AIKOM exchange program. Kirsti’s first publication is in AIKOM Forum Vol. 14 (2010) and she recently presented at the 2010 Women in Asia conference.
(January 2011)

Dr Cristina Rocha is an Australian Research Council Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney. She is the managing editor for the Journal of Global Buddhism (www.globalbuddhism.org). Her writings include Zen in Brazil: The Quest for Cosmopolitan Modernity (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2006).
(December 2006)

Pepi Ronalds is a PhD candidate in Literature (Creative Nonfiction) at Monash University and a freelance writer based in Melbourne. She is currently working on a manuscript about rebuilding and recovery in Miyagi after the Great East Japan Earthquake. Her work has been published in Meanjin, The Lifted Brow, Arena Magazine, Kill Your Darlings and more.

(July 2019)

Megan Catherine Rose is a researcher at the Australian National Research Organisation for Women’s Safety, an Adjunct Associate Lecturer at the School of Social Sciences at UNSW Sydney and a Visiting Researcher at the University of Tokyo. Megan completed a PhD on alternative kawaii fashion communities in Tokyo in 2019. Megan is currently developing a portfolio of postdoctoral research that involves co-authorship and collaboration with decora fashion practitioners in Harajuku, an exploration of traditional and contemporary doll-making and collecting in Tokyo, an investigation of Animal Crossing’s success during COVID-19, and a case study of the use of kawaii imagery by grass-roots feminist activists in Japan.

(August 2020; author photo by An Phuong Gorham)

Megan Rose was selected for the New Voices Scholar program in 2021.

See more about Megan Rose:
August 2, 2021: #NVJSAlumni News: Celebrating Achievements by Five Alumni (news post)
July 30, 2021: 2021 New Voices Scholars Announced! (news post)
August 17, 2020: Volume 12: A Note from the Series Editor (news post)
July 31, 2020: NVJS 12 Coming Soon…Read an Excerpt! (news post)

Madeleine Sbeghen graduated with First Class Honours in Japanese in 2015 after completing a Bachelor of Science (Zoology) and a Diploma in Languages (Japanese) at the University of Queensland. Building on a short undergraduate project investigating wildlife conservation in Japan, she combined her study interests to embark on an interdisciplinary Honours project on the biocultural context of threatened bird species conservation in Japan. Madeleine is currently undertaking a Master of the Environment at the University of Melbourne, and was selected for the New Voices Scholar program in 2017.
(June 2017)

Madeleine Sbeghen was selected for the New Voices Scholar program in 2017.

See more about Madeleine Sbeghen:
December 17, 2019: Summer Reading: Spotlight on Conservation (news post)
June 19, 2017: Meet our 2017 New Voices Scholar (news post)

Joshua Schlachet is a historian of early modern Japan, specialising in the cultural history of food and nourishment in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. He is an assistant professor in the Department of East Asian Studies at University of Arizona. His current book project, “Nourishing Life: Cultures of Diet and Health in Early Modern Japan,” examines the emergence of a dietary common knowledge, as new practical guidebooks circulating among ordinary readers expanded the concept of a well-nourished body to encompass economic productivity, status hierarchy, and moral cultivation. Schlachet teaches courses on Japanese and East Asian history, dietary cultures, and everyday life. He received his Ph.D. in East Asian Languages and Cultures from Columbia University and holds an M.A. (Japanese Studies) from the University of Michigan and a B.A. (History) from Cornell University.

(September 2021)

Erika K. Smith is a first year PhD (2008) student at the Centre for Cultural Research at the University of Western Sydney. Her PhD is focused on researching the Kokoda Track post World War II.
(December 2008)

April Sprague graduated Honours First Class in Japanese Studies from the University of Sydney in 2010 having completed a thesis on the topic of male sexuality and female power in Heian literature. She is currently employed by the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs at the Embassy of Japan in Canberra.
(December 2011)

Nobumichi (Nobu) Teramura is Assistant Professor of ASEAN and Asia-Wide Regionalisation at the Institute of Asian Studies, University of Brunei Darussalam (UBD) and Associate at the University of Sydney Law School Centre for Asian and Pacific Law (CAPLUS), specialising in business law, with a particular interest in arbitration, private international law, contract law and Asian law. He has published and presented his research in various journals and academic conferences in different jurisdictions in English and Japanese. He has received scholarships and fellowships from leading research institutions and foundations and from the Japanese Government. As an early-career academic, he is passionate about teaching international business law, international dispute resolution, and contract law. He has taught private international law and commercial law as a Lecturer at the Adelaide Law School (2019). He has lectured at the College of Law of De La Salle University in the Philippines in 2016, 2017 and 2019 on international arbitration and trade law. He has also lectured and researched in other Asia-Pacific jurisdictions including Taiwan, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Cambodia and Japan. His goal is to contribute to promoting legal dialogue among countries in the Asia-Pacific to enhance the economic integration of the region. He is active in developing institutional academic links among these countries, not only for himself, but also for his colleagues and students.

(September 2021)

Haydn Trowell is a PhD candidate at Monash University. His research explores issues that lie at the intersection of translation studies, literary studies, and contrastive linguistics. He is also a NAATI-certified professional translator working from Japanese to English.

(August 2020)

Haydn Trowell was selected for the New Voices Scholar program in 2021.

See more about Haydn Trowell:
August 2, 2021: #NVJSAlumni News: Celebrating Achievements by Five Alumni (news post)
July 30, 2021: 2021 New Voices Scholars Announced! (news post)
June 4, 2021: #NVJSAlumni News: Literary Translation by Haydn Trowell (news post)

Hideo Tsutsumi holds a BA in English from Ibaraki Christian University. He was awarded an MA in Applied Linguistics from The University of New South Wales in 2010.
(December 2011)

Ross Tunney graduated from the University of Tasmania in 2012 with a Bachelor of Arts (Hons) specialising in Asian Studies. In his final year, he wrote a dissertation that explored issues of identity and representation in Japanese photographer Tōmatsu Shōmei’s photographs of American servicemen and Okinawans in Japan. He is currently enrolled in his third year of a PhD at University of Tasmania. Ross’ research remains focused on issues surrounding representation, modernity, nostalgia and landscape in post-war Japanese documentary-style photography. His PhD thesis will take a broad view of this period, paying specific attention to the discursive patterns found within much of this work. Ross’ background in photography stems from a personal interest in the area, both as an amateur practitioner and admirer of the genre.
(June 2015)

Ross Tunney was selected for the New Voices Scholar Program in 2016.

See more about Ross Tunney:
December 11, 2018: Spotlight on the Meiji Era (news post)
July 13, 2016: 2016 NV Scholars at ASAA (news post)
June 18, 2016: Meet our 2016 New Voices Scholars (news post)

Emily Wakeling recently completed a Master of Philosophy in Art History at the University of Queensland after earning her undergraduate degree, a Bachelor of Creative Industries, from Queensland University of Technology. Emily is continuing her research interest in contemporary Japanese art in Tokyo through the Monbukagakusho Research Scholarship. She regularly writes about exhibitions in Tokyo, focusing on photography, women artists, Asian art and new media.
(December 2011)

See more about Emily Wakeling:
January 30, 2018: Top 10 Articles of 2017 (news post)

Shannon Whiley graduated from The University of Queensland (UQ) in 2015 with an Arts Degree in Japanese and Asian Studies, and was awarded Honours in Japanese. After spending two years on the JET Programme, she now works in Brisbane for a Japanese government agency and intends to pursue further research. Shannon has contributed two publications to New Voices in Japanese Studies: a research paper titled The Experiences of Nikkei-Australian Soldiers During World War II (NVJS 11), and a review of the book Okinawans Reaching Australia (NVJS 12). She has also published her research in The Conversation.

(August 2020)

Shannon was selected for the New Voices Scholar Program in 2019.

See more about Shannon Whiley:
September 4, 2020: NVJS Authors in the Media (news post)
August 17, 2020: Volume 12: A Note from the Series Editor (news post)
January 31, 2019: 2019 New Voices Scholars Announced (news post)
July 9, 2018: Introducing NVJS 10: The Papers and the Authors (news post)
April 24, 2018: Nikkei-Australian Soldiers in World War II: Forthcoming in NVJS 10 (news post)

Aoife Wilkinson graduated from Macquarie University in 2018 with a degree in International Studies, and has recently graduated from The University of Queensland with a Bachelor of Arts in Japanese Studies (Honours I). She is currently a PhD candidate at The University of Queensland, where she is investigating how mixed Japanese youth living in Japan and Australia interpret and experience multiculturalism. Aoife is interested in research topics including, but not limited to, multiculturalism, mixed identity, and Japan-Australia history and relations.

(August 2020)

See more about Aoife Wilkinson:
August 2, 2021: #NVJSAlumni News: Celebrating Achievements by Five Alumni (news post)

Daniel J. Wyatt is a PhD candidate at Kyushu University, Japan. Daniel holds a Bachelor of Arts in Japanese from James Cook University, Cairns, and a Master of Interpreting and Translation Studies from Monash University, Melbourne. Daniel’s research addresses the development of Meiji-period translation practices, highlighting the role of traditional culture in the production and transition of knowledge in Meiji Japan.
(June 2017)

Daniel was selected for the New Voices Scholar Program in 2019.

See more about Daniel Wyatt:
January 31, 2019: 2019 New Voices Scholars Announced (news post)
December 11, 2018: Spotlight on the Meiji Era (news post)

Atsushi Yamagata is a PhD candidate in the Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts at the University of Wollongong. His main topic of research is Japanese responses to refugees after the Second World War. His interest is not only in the Japanese government’s policy but also responses to refugees by civil society in Japan. He previously completed a Master of Human Sciences at Waseda University and a Master of International Studies at the University of Wollongong. His publications include “Conflicting Japanese Responses to the Syrian Refugee Crisis”, Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus 15.24.2 (2017).

(July 2019)

Atsushi Yamagata was selected for the New Voices Scholar Program in 2020.

See more about Atsushi Yamagata:
June 3, 2021: #NVJSalumni News: New Article on Refugees in Japan by Atsushi Yamagata (news post)
December 13, 2019: New Voices Scholar Panel Accepted to #ASAA2020 (news post)
September 13, 2019: In the News: NVJS Author Atsushi Yamagata (news post)

Rie Yamasaki holds a Bachelor of Arts, majoring in Asian Studies and also Journalism, Media and Communications from the University of Tasmania. She completed a Master’s degree in Asian Studies at the same institution in 2010.
(January 2011)

Hitomi Yoshida completed her undergraduate degree in Chinese and Japanese Studies at the University of Tasmania and went on to complete a Masters in this field, being awarded the MA in August 2010. Her studies have been undertaken part-time as she is also tutoring students in the School of Asian Languages and Studies. Her research interests include the way that popular culture in East Asia is shaped by global-local dynamics and how the idealisation of modernity comes up against the traditions and social morals of regional-local cultures.
(January 2011)

Maki Yoshida holds a Master of Applied Japanese Linguistics from Monash University. She has previously participated in the LOTE Teacher Assistant Program administrated by the Department of Education and Early Childhood Development in Victoria and now teaches in the Japanese Program at Monash University.
(December 2011)

I am a postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Japanese Studies, National University of Singapore. My research interests include gender and sexuality, popular culture, and mobilities and migration. I am currently working on a monograph on FTM trans men and their community in Japan. My recent work appears in Asian Anthropology (2020), and TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly (forthcoming).

(September 2021)