Giuseppe Strippoli
Thesis title: The rise of a literary genre: Encounters between science fiction and the techno-scientific discourse in modern Japanese literature (late Meiji-beginning Shōwa)
Japanese (PhD) (Full-time)
Year of study: 2
- Japanese
- School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures
Contact details
- Email: g.strippoli@sms.ed.ac.uk
PhD supervisors:
Undergraduate teaching
Tutor in 'Modern East Asian History'
Research summary
Classic science fiction in modern Japanese literature (Meiji-Shōwa), media history of popular magazines, reception of modern science and technology in Japan within the literary context.
Current project grants
Japanese Government (MEXT) Scholarship (Research Student)
Organiser
2021 (Aug), Online: Convenor of the panel 'Popular Representations of Science and Technology in Pre-war Japanese Magazines', 16th International Conference of the European Association for Japanese Studies.
Papers delivered
'Horiuchi Shinsen no uchū tanken--kagaku shōsetsu no kigen ga kataru anchi-mimēshisu', Dai 44 kai kokusai Nihon bungaku kenkyū shūkai, Online, 8 June 2021.
'Popularizing Science: Unnō Jūza and the 'Popular Scientific Literary Movement'', 16th International Conference of the European Association for Japanese Studies, Online, 27 August 2021.
'Horiuchi Shinsen no uchū tanken--Kagaku shōsetsu no kigen ga kataru anchi-mimēshisu.' Kokubungaku kenkyū shiryōkan kiyō bungaku kenkyū hen (The Bulletin of the National Institute of Japanese Literature), 48, 2022, pp. 227-258. DOI: http://doi.org/10.24619/00004450