Prof. Dr. Andrea Germer
Floor/room: 04.68
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The Chair of Modern Japanese Studies I is affiliated with The Women's & Gender Research Network NRW (North Rhine-Westphalia) and combines research and teaching in cultural studies and gender studies. Historical studies of culture, media and gender as well as contemporary issues in sexualities and popular culture provide innovative avenues to understanding Japan’s cultural, societal and socio-economic development and interdependencies as well as its role in Asia and the world. The following thematic clusters envelop the main foci in our research and teaching: 20th century print media, photography and the modernisation of vision; visual propaganda in World War II; (popular) culture and gender; global circulations: anime and manga; sexual minorities in Japan/Asia.
Curriculum Vitae
| since 2017 | Chair of Modern Japanese Studies I, Duesseldorf University, Germany |
| 2014 | Awarded with the Penny Kanner Prize for the article titled “Visible Cultures, Invisible Politics: Propaganda in the Magazine Nippon Fujin, 1942-1945”, published in Japan Forum, 25, 4 (2013), pp. 505–539. |
| 2011–2017 | Associate Professor, Faculty of Social and Cultural Studies, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan |
| 2010–2011 | Japan Foundation Senior Research Fellow, Hiroshima University, Japan |
| 2010 | Visiting Scholar at the Cluster of Excellence ‘Asia and Europe’, Karl Jaspers Centre, Heidelberg University, Germany |
| 2007–2010 | Lecturer in Japanese Studies, Head of East Asian Studies Section, School of Modern Languages, Newcastle University, United Kingdom |
| 2006–2007 | Adjunct Lecturer, Temple University, Tōkyō, Japan |
| 2001–2007 | Research Fellow, German Institute for Japanese Studies (DIJ), Tōkyō, Japan |
| 2001 | PhD (summa cum laude) in East Asian Studies (Japanese Studies), Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany |
| 2000–2001 | Language Teacher, Academy for Euro-Asian Economy and Culture, Achern, Germany |
| 1995–1996 | Fellow of the Women’s Studies Network of North Rhine-Westphalia, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany |