- Email:
- hairries@iu.edu
- Office:
- Global and International Studies Building, 2021
- Office hours:
- Office Hours by appointment only
Education
PhD, University of California, Berkeley, 2020
Research Interests
- Japanese cinema and visual cultures
- Modern and contemporary literature
- Media history of Japan’s era of high economic growth
- Histories and theories of labor and management in Japan
- East Asian transnational media networks
Courses
- E322: Modern Japanese Literature and Its Media Cultures
- E330: Introduction to Japanese Cinema
- E330: Cinema in Millennial Japan
- E330: Visualizing Disaster in Japanese Literature and Film
Awards and Fellowships
- Doreen B. Townsend Center for the Humanities Dissertation Fellowship, 2019-2020
- Social Science Research Council/Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Fellowship, 2018- 2019
Bio
I specialize in Japanese film and literature, with a focus on visual media’s articulation of shifting economic structures and ideas of nation across mid 20th century East Asia. I am currently working on a book manuscript concerning the figure of the white-collar worker, staged across mass media in Japan’s era of high economic growth (1954-1971). Using a transmedial approach that draws together studio cinema with archival material such as serialized fiction, advertising, and popular social science texts, I argue that a “mass cultural theorization” of the white-collar worker maps transformations concerning labor, class, gender, and nation in postwar Japan. As white-collar media culture comes to stage national identity in terms of middle class-ness, I also ask how other high-growth era working subjectivities are situated in relationship to political economy and nation. My research interests also include the media cultures of Japan’s Lost Decades, travel film, and media theory.