Amanda Weiss
Assistant Professor of Japanese
- School of Modern Languages
Overview
Amanda Weiss is Assistant Professor of Japanese at Georgia Institute of Technology, where she teaches courses on Japanese media and society. She is editor and founder of Hivemind: Global Speculative Fiction, a science fiction and fantasy magazine with a focus on language and culture. She also leads a VIP or Vertically Integrated Project in East Asian Media. VIP student projects have included archival work, translation, photography, and media analysis. Her forthcoming book, Han Heroes and Yamato Warriors: Competing Masculinities in Chinese and Japanese War Cinema (Hong Kong University Press, 2023), explores contemporary East Asian remembrance of WWII. She is also completing an anthology on New Asian Fantasy with co-editors Ploi Pirapokin and Silvia Park.
Prior to her work at Georgia Tech, Amanda taught at Earlham College and held a Postdoctoral Fellowship at Emory University's Bill and Carol Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry. She has also conducted research at the University of Southern California, the Beijing Film Academy (Fulbright), the University of Cambridge, and the University of Tokyo.
- University of Tokyo, Ph.D. Information Studies
- Cambridge University, M.Phil. Chinese
- University of Southern California, B.A. Film Production and Chinese
Distinctions:
- Fulbright Grant (China) 2006-2007
Interests
- Chinese
- Japanese
- Literary and Cultural Studies
- Media Studies
Focuses:
- Asia (East)
- Gender
- Cinema Studies
- East-Asian Studies
- History and Memory
- Literature
- Media
- Television Studies
Courses
- JAPN-2002: Intermediate Japanese II
- JAPN-3001: Advanced Japanese I
- JAPN-3401: Popular Culture in Japan
- JAPN-3691: Tech & Scientific Japn
- JAPN-3693: Japan Today
- JAPN-4113: Adv Reading & Listening
- JAPN-4173: Anime: Culture&Society
- JAPN-4183: JAPN Cul/Soc Thru Songs
- JAPN-4193: Documentary Cul/Society
- JAPN-6173: Anime Culture & Society
- JAPN-6183: Songs: Culture & Society
- JAPN-6193: JAPN Cul & Soc Thr Doc
- ML-2500: Intro Cross-Cult Studies
All Publications
Books
- Han Heroes and Yamato Warriors: Competing Masculinities in Chinese and Japanese War Films
Date: 2023
Journal Articles
- Kawaii Kokutai: The Militarized Shōjo Body in Contemporary Anime
In: Mechademia [Peer Reviewed]
Date: 2023
- Transnational Film, Transnational Memory? Collective Remembrance in Recent Pan-Asian War Films
In: Transnational Screens [Peer Reviewed]
Date: August 2021
- ‘A Continuous Retrial’: Trans/national Memory in Chinese and Japanese Tribunal Films
In: Arts (New Media Section) [Peer Reviewed]
Date: December 2019
- Contested Images of Rape: The Nanjing Massacre in Chinese and Japanese Films
In: Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society [Peer Reviewed]
Date: January 2016
- New Masculinities in Chinese and Japanese Combat Films
In: Asian Cinema [Peer Reviewed]
Date: October 2014
- ‘Mediated Persona’ and Hong Kong Stars: Negotiating Mainland Celebrity
In: Celebrity Studies [Peer Reviewed]
Date: July 2013
Journal - Editors
- Vol 2.1: "The Anthropocene"
In: Hivemind: Global Speculative Fiction
Date: December 2022
- Vol 1.2: "Japan x Future"
In: Hivemind: Global Speculative Fiction
Date: October 2021
- Vol 1.1: "The Future of Translation"
In: Hivemind: Global Speculative Fiction
Date: April 2021
Chapters
- Chishiki no datsushokuminchika [The Decolonization of Knowledge]
In: Yoshimi Shun’ya ron: Shakaigaku to mediaron no kanо̄sei [Shun’ya Yoshimi Theory: Possibilities for Sociology and Media Studies] [Peer Reviewed]
Date: April 2023
- Aya Hanabusa’s Holy Island: Nuclear Power and Political Resistance in Iwaishima, Japan
In: A Global Humanities Approach to the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals: Understanding Planet, People and Prosperity [Peer Reviewed]
Date: 2023
Edited by Kelly Comfort.