Jennifer Coates is Professor of Japanese Studies at the School of East Asian Studies, University of Sheffield. She is the author of Making Icons: Repetition and the Female Image in Japanese Cinema, 1945-1964 (Hong Kong University Press, 2016) and Film Viewing in Postwar Japan, 1945-1968: An Ethnographic Study (Edinburgh University Press, 2022), and co-editor of Japanese Visual Media: Politicizing the Screen (Routledge, 2021 with Ben-Ari, E.) and The Routledge Companion to Gender and Japanese Culture (Routledge, 2019 with Fraser, L., and Pendleton, M.). Jennifer is a AHRC Innovation Scholar and recipient of the 2021 Philip Leverhulme Prize for Visual and Performing Arts.

Experience

  • 2023–present
    Professor of Japanese Studies, University of Sheffield
  • 2019–2023
    Senior lecturer in Japanese Studies, University of Sheffield
  • 2018–2019
    Senior lecturer in Japanese Arts and Cultures, Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures
  • 2014–2018
    Assistant Professor, Kyoto University

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