Goldsmiths - University of London

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Dr Rajyashree Pandey

Position held:
Reader in Asian Politics

Phone:
+44 (0)20 7919 7751

Email:
r.pandey (@gold.ac.uk)

Warmington Tower Room: 610

Office hours:
Thursday 11:00-13:00

My work focuses on issues to do with gender, body and sexuality in medieval and modern Japan. I also work on contemporary popular culture, particularly manga and anime, looking at the intersection between pre-modern Buddhist forms of understanding the world and Japan’s ‘post-modern’ condition.

Research interests

My work focuses on issues to do with gender, body and sexuality in medieval and modern Japan. I also work on contemporary popular culture, particularly manga and anime, looking at the intersection between pre-modern Buddhist forms of understanding the world and Japan’s ‘post-modern’ condition.

Selected publications

  • "Reconfiguring sex, body and desire in Japanese modernity", Postcolonial Studies, Vol 12, Mo 3, pp. 289-301, 2009.

 

  • "Medieval Genealogies of Manga Horror and Anime” in Japanese Visual Culture: Explorations in the world of manga and anime, Mark MacWilliams ed; M.E Sharpe, 2008.

 

  • Writing and Renunciation in Medieval Japan: The Works of the Poet-Priest Kamo no Chõmei, University of Michigan, Japanese Monograph Series, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1998.

  • “Performing the body in medieval Japanese narratives: Izumi Shikibu in Shasekishu”, Japan Forum: The International Journal of Japanese Studies, Vol.19, No.1 (March, 2007), pp. 111-130.

  • “Poetry, Sex and Salvation: The ‘Courtesan’ and the Noblewoman in Medieval Japanese Narratives”, Japanese Studies, Carfax: Oxford, Volume 24, No. 1, May 2004, pp. 61-79.

  • “Medieval Experience, Modern Visions: Women in Buddhism”, Monumenta Nipponica, Volume 59, Number 2, Summer 2004, pp. 223-244.

  •  “The Pre in the Postmodern: The Horror Manga of Hino Hideshi’, Japanese Studies, Carfax: Oxford, December 2001.

  • “The medieval in manga”, Postcolonial Studies, Carfax: Oxford, Vol 3, no 1, March 2000, pp.19-32.

  • ”Representations of Female Sexuality and Enlightenment in Japanese Medieval Tale Literature”, Asiatica Venetiana, Vol. 3, 1998, pp 125-139.

  •  “Love, Poetry and Renunciation: Changing Configurations of the Ideal of Suki”, Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, Cambridge University Press, Vol 5, Part 2, July 1995, pp 225-244 (Awarded the Barwis-Holliday Award for best article in the area of Far Eastern Studies in the year 1995).

Teaching

I currently teach the MA International Studies core course, Global Political Cultures and the MAIS option, An(other) Japan.

Areas of supervision

Contemporary Japanese culture and politics, gender, colonialism, nationalism.