Amanda Kennell

Amanda Kennell researches Japanese culture and what it can tell us about the modern media environment, with a particular emphasis on new technologies and the popular media that blanket the average person's daily life. Her book, Alice in Japanese Wonderlands: Translation, Adaptation, Mediation (2023), uses adaptations of Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland novels as a window onto how media function today. She is currently working on a book dissecting how media affect human responses to the environment and therefore affect climate change. She speaks and writes on topics such as technology and anime, the global importance of Dungeons & Dragons, the role of mental health in Yayoi Kusama's art, machine translation, and the mediatic aftermath of World War II.