Kyoko Omori, associate professor of East Asian Languages and Literatures (Japanese), served as organizer and presenter for the panel titled “Redefining Cinema Research and Pedagogy: Workshopping the Routledge Handbook of Japanese Cinema” at the Association for Asian Studies conference.
Omori’s presentation was titled “Inter-Mediating Global Modernity: Benshi Film Narrators, Multisensory Performance, and Fan Culture.” Omori also published a book review on Amy Bliss Marshall’s Magazines and the Making of Mass Culture in Japan in University of Toronto Quarterly (89:3) this month.
