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 and director of the School of Modern Languages' Global Media Festival. 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 current book project, Han Heroes and Yamato Warriors: Competing Masculinities in East Asian War Cinema, 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-6183: Songs: Culture & Society
- ML-2500: Intro Cross-Cult Studies
All Publications
Journal Articles
- “Transnational Film, Transnational Memory? Collective Remembrance in Recent Pan-Asian War Films”
In: Transnational Screens [Peer Reviewed]
Date: 2021
Accepted for publication and forthcoming.
- ‘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. 1: "The Future of Translation"
In: Hivemind: Global Speculative Fiction
Date: April 2021