Mitsuyo Wada-Marciano

Associate Professor, Film Studies

Degrees: B.A. (Waseda), M.A. (New York), Ph.D. (Iowa)
Phone: 613-520-2600 x 1678
Email: mwadamar@connect.carleton.ca
Office: 406 St. Patrick’s Building Carleton University 1125 Colonel By Drive Ottawa, ON K1S 5B6

Mitsuyo Wada-Marciano’s research interests are Japanese cinema, especially its relationship to Japanese modernity, the impact of digital technology on cinema, and East Asian cinemas in global culture. She is the author of Nippon Modern: Japanese Cinema of the 1920s and 1930s (University of Hawai’i Press, 2008); the Japanese translation was published by Nagoya University Press in 2009. She is also the co-editor of Horror to the Extreme: Changing Boundaries in Asian Cinema (Hong Kong University Press, 2009). Her newly published book is Japanese Cinema in the Digital Age from University of Hawai‘i Press. She is currently conducting her research at Kyoto University for a book on the cinema in post-Occupation Japan, 1952-1960.

Selected texts:

New in 2012! Japanese Cinema in the Digital Age