Hannah Airriess

Email:

hairries@iu.edu

Office:

Global and International Studies Building, 2021

Office hours:

Office Hours by appointment only

Résumé/CV

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.