Biography
Dr Mitsuyo Wada-Marciano is Professor of Cinema and Media Studies and Director of the Joint Degree Master in Transcultural Studies programme in the Graduate School of Letters at Kyoto University, Japan. Professor Wada-Marciano earned an MA in Cinema Studies from New York University and a PhD in Film Studies from the University of Iowa, United States. Her research interests include Japanese cinema and media culture, East Asian Cinema, women's documentary, and archive film in the digital period. Professor Wada-Marciano has authored a number of books and articles, including Nippon Modern: Japanese Cinema of the 1920s and 1930s (University of Hawai‘i Press, 2008), Japanese Cinema in the Digital Age (University of Hawai‘i Press, 2012), and No Nukes:〈Post-3.11〉eiga no chikara, âto no chikara [No Nukes:〈Post-3.11〉Power of Cinema and Power of Art] (Nagoya University Press, 2021), which was translated into English under the title Japanese Filmmakers in the Wake of Fukushima: Perspectives on Nuclear Disasters (Amsterdam University Press, 2023). Her latest research involves film archiving in and outside Japan, and has been supported by the Grants-in-aid for Scientific Research (Japan Society for the Promotion of Science) since 2020.
Roundtable Discussion (2025) | Expanding Film and Media History: Lessons from Japan
