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 in the relationship with Japanese modernity in the 1920s and 1930s, New Media’s impact on Japanese 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), and its Japanese translation is published by Nagoya University Press in 2009. Her articles and reviews are published in Film Quarterly, Camera Obscura, Canadian Journal of Film Studies, Post Script, The Journal of Asian Studies, and Asian Cinema. She is also the co-editor of Asian Extreme: Changing Borders of Nation and Culture in Asian Horror Cinema (Hong Kong University Press, 2009). She is currently working on a project concerning digital technology’s impact on the contemporary Japanese cinema and visual culture.

Selected texts:

1) Nippon Modern: Japanese Cinema of the 1920s and 1930s