CJS Postdoctoral Fellow
About
Kirsten Seuffert holds a PhD in East Asian Languages and Cultures from the University of Southern California with a focus on postwar and contemporary cinema in Japan as well as a graduate certificate in visual studies. She received her master’s degree in East Asian Languages and Civilizations from the University of Pennsylvania with research centering on cinema, gender, and sexuality. Her dissertation project—“Adjusting Images: Women’s Bodies and Embodied Experience in Cinema and Visual Culture in Japan, 1974–1989”—takes a multidisciplinary, multimedia approach in order to look differently at cinema in Japan during the later 1970s and 1980s through the lenses of gender, bodies, and everyday life. Her research interests include performance, authorship, the writing of media histories, affect, and subcultural participation and representation. Her publications include the article “Exploding Girls, Imploding Strategies: Media-Mixed Bodies in Late 1970s to 1980s Japanese Women’s Professional Wrestling,” published in the Winter 2023 issue of Mechademia, and an upcoming article in JCMS: The Journal of Cinema and Media Studies. Currently, Kirsten is working on her book manuscript and researching recent biopics and bio-adaptations that look back on cinema in Japan from the 1960s through the 1980s.
