RACHAEL HUTCHINSON Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures Jastak-Burgess Hall University of Delaware Newark, DE 19716-2550 Tel: (302) 831-2597 Fax: (302) 831-6459 rhutch@udel.edu EMPLOYMENT AND ACADEMIC POSITIONS Associate Professor in Japanese Studies, University of Delaware, 2012 to present Assistant Professor in Japanese Studies, University of Delaware, 2007-2012 Visiting Scholar, University of Pennsylvania, 2006-2007. Assistant Professor in Japanese Studies, Colgate University, 2004-2007. Lecturer in Japanese Studies, University of Leeds, 2000-2004. EDUCATION D.Phil. in Oriental Studies, University of Oxford, 2000. Doctoral dissertation: Occidentalism in Nagai Kafū: Constructing a Critique of Meiji, 1903- 1912. Dissertation supervisor: Dr Brian Powell. Examinations Committee: Dr Phillip Harries (Oxford), Dr. Stephen Dodd (SOAS). Bachelor of Arts (Honors), University of Newcastle, Australia, 1995. Honors dissertation: Nagai Kafū and Furansu monogatari: Textual Readings of Modernity in History and Literature. Graduated with First Class Honors and University Medal in History and Japanese. Bachelor of Arts, University of Newcastle, Australia, 1993. Double major in History (the history of political thought in China and Japan) and Japanese (language, literature, history and culture). PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS Postgraduate Certificate in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education, University of Leeds, 2001. Accreditation as a Teacher in Higher Education, University of Leeds, 2002. PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS Mid-Atlantic Region Association for Asian Studies (MAR/AAS): President, 2016-17 Association for Asian Studies (AAS): Council on Conferences, 2018 American Association of Teachers of Japanese (AATJ) British Association for Japanese Studies (BAJS): Council member 2002-2003. Asian Studies Association of Australia (ASAA) 1  RACHAEL HUTCHINSON AWARDS, HONORS AND RESEARCH FUNDING DiGRA/FDG (Digital Games Research Association and Foundations of Digital Games) Travel Assistance Program award, 2016 The Mae and Robert Carter Endowment Women’s Studies Faculty Research Award, 2016 IGS-Globex Faculty Research Award, 2016 GUR (General University Research) Grant, 2015 IHRC (Interdisciplinary Humanities Research Center) grant for Game Studies, 2013-14 University of Delaware CGAS International Travel Award, 2010, 2013. University of Delaware CAS Faculty Enrichment Research Award, 2008, 2010. University of Delaware FLL Research Travel Award, 2008, 2009, 2011. Toshiba International Foundation Prize for Best Essay in Japan Forum, 2007. Colgate University Research Council: Picker Research Fellowship, 2006-7. Colgate University Faculty Development Council: Discretionary Grant, Spring and Fall 2006. Grants to support workshop entitled Representing the Other in Modern Japanese Literature, designated one of three British Association for Japanese Studies Special Projects for 2002-5: · Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation - £4500 · British Association of Japanese Studies (BAJS) Council - £4500 · Japan Foundation Endowment Committee - £4000 · British Academy - £1620 · University of Leeds School of Modern Languages and Cultures - £800 University of Leeds Study Leave Award in the Humanities, 2002. British Academy: Overseas Conference Grant, 2001. TEPCO Senior Studentship: to attend Pembroke College, Oxford, 1999-2000. Kobe Steel Postgraduate Scholarship: to attend St. Catherine’s College, Oxford, 1996-8. Overseas Research Student’s Award: to attend University of Oxford, 1996-8. Mombushō Research Student Scholarship: to attend Kumamoto University, Japan, 1994-5. TEACHING-RELATED GRANTS In 2009 I secured a grant of $11,600 from the National Consortium for Teaching about Asia (NCTA), to teach a summer seminar at the University of Delaware for K-12 teachers aiming to incorporate more Asia-related materials into the school curriculum. The grant was renewed in 2011, for a total of $23,200. PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE International Selection Advisory Committee, World Video Game Hall of Fame. International Editorial Board, peer-reviewed journal Japan Forum. Reader/reviewer for Routledge, Brill, Yale University Press, Northwestern University Press, Carnegie Mellon ETC Press. External Reader and Examiner for PhD thesis, University of Newcastle, 2005, 2006. External Examiner to Japanese Program: Swarthmore College, 2018; Royal Holloway University of London, 2001-2004; University of Oxford, 2003. Columbia University, Weatherhead Institute: Expanding East Asian Studies (ExEAS) Teaching Collaborative, 2004-2005. National Consortium on Teaching about Asia (NCTA) seminar leader, University of Delaware campus, 2009, 2011, 2015. 2  RACHAEL HUTCHINSON COURSES TAUGHT 1. University of Delaware: Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, 2007-present. Japanese Culture: · Freshman Honors Colloquium ‘Japanese Visual Culture: manga, anime, games’: Examines media specificity and production of manga, anime and videogames, exploring themes such as absentee parents; anxiety over nuclear power; and history as memory. Employs a Games Lab for assignments. Also taught as an upper-level course. · Freshman Honors Colloquium ‘Representing Japanese Culture’: Examines nationalism in the Meiji period, representations of traditional Japan in literature and film, gender stereotypes and the interconnectivity of anime, manga and games. · Critical Approaches to the Japanese Videogame/ Videogames and Japanese Culture: Elective, lecture and discussion-based course exploring narratalogical and ludological approaches to Japanese games, from Donkey Kong in the arcade era through the JRPG, Metal Gear Solid and performative games such as Dance Dance Revolution. · Representing the Other in Japanese Literature: Elective, lecture and discussion-based course exploring the ways in which Japanese writers have defined their national identity in contrast to various imagined Others, whether overseas or within their own country. · Issues in Japanese Film: Elective, discussion-based course. Classic and contemporary films from black-and-white to anime format. Discussion covers academic Orientalism; film adaptation discourse; and impact of Japanese film on other directors. Japanese Language: · Grammar, reading and translation from sophomore to senior levels: Advanced Intermediate Japanese: textbook Genki II. Advanced Japanese I and II: textbook An Integrated Approach to Intermediate Japanese. Advanced Reading in Japanese: select essays, novels and short stories. Japanese Capstone Thesis: independent research on aspects of Japanese culture. Japanese Translation: Theory and Practice: translation of Meiji literature (Nagai Kafū’s Furansu monogatari) and comparison with other Meiji texts; translation theory. 2. Colgate University: Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures, 2004-2006. Japanese Culture: · CORE Japan: Compulsory first-year lecture series, taught in four parts: Defining the Nation (history), Uses of Traditional Culture (art, film and literature), The Family (anthropology), and Contemporary Texts (literature, anime and new media). · Japan Through Literature and Film: Analysed the production, censorship and readership of media in modern Japan, from Meiji literature through to anime and manga. · First-year Seminar: ‘Writing Japan: Imagining a Nation’: Examined how Western and Japanese writers have portrayed ‘Japan’ through history. 3  RACHAEL HUTCHINSON · Advanced Seminar in Japanese Literature: Senior students only. Close reading and analysis of Natsume Sōseki’s works in translation. Japanese Language: · Grammar, reading and translation from sophomore to senior levels: Intermediate Japanese I and II: textbooks Genki I and Genki II. Advanced Japanese I and II: textbook An Integrated Approach to Intermediate Japanese. Advanced Reading: select essays, novels and short stories. 3. University of Leeds: Department of East Asian Studies, 2000-2004. Japanese Culture: · Introduction to Modern Japanese Literature: Elective, seminar-based survey course examining Japanese novels in translation, from Higuchi Ichiyō to Murakami Haruki. · Japanese Literature and Modernity: Elective, seminar-based course on Meiji-Taisho literature, examining the text-context relationship; Occidentalism in Meiji representations of the West; and the ongoing search for ‘the modern’. · Inside Japan: Team-taught survey course, compulsory for first-year students. My lectures covered gender dynamics in Japanese society, anime and manga as distinct modes of discourse, the history of Japanese cinema, and Tokugawa consumer culture. · MA in World Cinema: Kurosawa and adaptation, Takeshi Kitano and Japanese Self- definition, Occidentalism and national discourse, and academic Orientalism. Japanese Language: Grammar, reading and translation from first-year to graduate level: · Beginners Japanese I: textbook Minna no Nihongo. Intermediate Japanese I and II: textbook Sokudoku no Nihongo plus select articles. Advanced Japanese I and II: translation of Nagai Kafū’s short stories. Readings in Japanese: Senior students only. Reading and discussion of a modern novel. · MAATS (Master of Arts in Applied Translation Studies): Specialized translation of Journalistic, General/Administrative, Technical/Scientific and Literary material. 4. University of Oxford: Nissan Institute for Japanese Studies and Faculty of Oriental Studies. Graduate Tutor in Japanese history and language from 1998 to 2000. 4  RACHAEL HUTCHINSON PUBLICATIONS Authored books Nagai Kafū’s Occidentalism: Defining the Japanese Self, SUNY Press. Hardback: November 2011. Kindle: May 2012. Paperback: July 2012 Japanese Culture through Videogames (manuscript under review). Edited volumes The Routledge Handbook of Modern Japanese Literature, co-edited with Leith Morton. New York and London: Routledge, 2016. Negotiating Censorship in Modern Japan, Routledge. Routledge Contemporary Japan Series no. 45. Hardback: 2013. Paperback: 2015. Censorship in the Japanese Arts. Special issue of Japan Forum, 19.3 (Nov 2007). Representing the Other in Modern Japanese Literature: A Critical Approach, co-edited with Mark Williams. Routledge, British Association of Japanese Studies Series. Hardback: 2006. Paperback: 2007. Kindle: 2009. Journal articles ‘Kojima Hideo and Fukasaku Kinji Replay Hiroshima: Atomic Imagery and Cross-Media Memory’, currently under review. ‘Hold that Pose! Photography and Kabuki in Kitano Takeshi’s Kikujiro’, Japan Forum, 28.4 (May 2016), pp.511-529. ‘Race and Gender Stereotypes in Japanese Fighting Games: effects on identification and immersion’, NMEDIAC: Journal of New Media and Culture, 10.1 (Summer 2015). http://ibiblio.org/nmediac/summer2015/GenderStereotypes.htm ‘Performing the Self: Subverting the Binary in Combat Games’, Games and Culture 2:4 (Fall 2007), pp.283-299. ‘Positioning the Observer: Interrogations of Alterity in Nagai Kafū’s Amerika monogatari’, Monumenta Nipponica 62.3 (Autumn 2007), pp.1-22. ‘Introduction: Censorship in the Japanese Arts’, Japan Forum 19.3 (Nov 2007), pp.269-280. ‘Kurosawa Akira’s One Wonderful Sunday: Context, censorship and counter-discursive film’, Japan Forum 19.3 (Nov 2007), pp.369-389. ‘Occidentalism and Critique of Meiji: The West in the Returnee Stories of Nagai Kafū’, Japan Forum, 13.2 (2001) pp.195-213. 5  RACHAEL HUTCHINSON Chapters in books ‘The Body Political: Kantai Collection Media and WWII Enactment’, The Representation of Politics in Japanese Graphic Art, ed. Roman Rosenbaum. London and New York: Routledge, volume currently under review. ‘Refracted Visions: Transmedia Storytelling in Japanese Videogames,’ accepted and in preparation for bilingual (Japanese/English) volume Replaying Japan, ed. Aki Nakamura and Geoffrey Rockwell, Kyoto: Ritsumeikan Center for Game Studies, forthcoming 2018, pages tbc. ‘Censorship as Education: Film Violence and Ideology’, in The Japanese Cinema Book, ed. Hideaki Fujiki and Alistair Phillips. London: British Film Institute. Accepted for publication, forthcoming 2018, pages tbc. ‘Nuclear Discourse in Final Fantasy VII – embodied experience and social critique’, in Introducing Japanese Popular Culture, ed. Alisa Freedman and Toby Slade. London and New York: Routledge, 2017, pp.71-80. ‘Representing Race and Disability: GTA San Andreas as a whole text’, in Gaming Representation: Race, Gender and Sexuality in Videogames, ed. TreaAndrea Russworm and Jennifer Malkowski. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2017, pp.164-178. ‘Virtual Colonialism: Japan’s Others in SoulCalibur’, in Transnational Contexts of Culture, Gender, Class, and Colonialism in Play: Video Games in East Asia, ed. Alexis Pulos and Austin Lee. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016, pp.155-178. ‘Nagai Kafū’s Feminist Perspective’, in The Routledge Handbook of Modern Japanese Literature, ed. Rachael Hutchinson and Leith Morton. New York and London: Routledge, 2016, pp.95-108. ‘Teaching Final Fantasy X: accounting for nuclear nostalgia’, in Between ‘Cool’ and 3.11: Implications for Teaching Japan Today, ed. Mahua Batthacharya, published proceedings of the Second Teaching Japan Conference. Elizabethtown PA: Elizabethtown College, 2013, pp.1-7. ‘Kurosawa Akira’s One Wonderful Sunday: Context, censorship and counter-discursive film,’ in Negotiating Censorship in Modern Japan, ed. Rachael Hutchinson. New York and London: Routledge, 2013, pp.133-152. ‘Sabotaging the Rising Sun: Representing History in Tezuka Osamu’s Phoenix’, in Roman Rosenbaum (ed.), Manga and the Representation of Japanese History, (Routledge Contemporary Japan Series 44), Routledge, September 2012, pp.18-39. ‘Teaching manga: considerations and class exercises’ in Stephen Tabachnik (ed.), Approaches to Teaching the Graphic Novel. Modern Language Association Press, 2009, pp.262-270. 6  RACHAEL HUTCHINSON ‘A Fistful of Yojimbo: Appropriation and Dialogue in Japanese Cinema’ in Paul Cooke (ed.), World Cinema’s ‘Dialogues’ with Hollywood, Palgrave, 2007, pp.172-187. ‘Orientalism or Occidentalism? Dynamics of Appropriation in Akira Kurosawa’, in Stephanie Dennison and Song-Hwee Lim (eds.), Remapping World Cinema: Identity, Culture and Politics in Film, Wallflower Press, 2006, pp.173-187. ‘Introduction: Self and Other in Modern Japanese Literature’, co-authored with Mark Williams, in Rachael Hutchinson and Mark Williams (eds.), Representing the Other in Modern Japanese Literature: A Critical Approach, Routledge, British Association of Japanese Studies Series, 2006, pp.1-18. ‘Who Holds the Whip? Power and Critique in Nagai Kafū’s Tales of America’, in Rachael Hutchinson and Mark Williams (eds.), Representing the Other in Modern Japanese Literature: A Critical Approach, Routledge, British Association of Japanese Studies Series, 2006, pp.57-74. BOOK REVIEWS Mark J.P. Wolf (ed.), Video Games Around the World (MIT Press, 2015), Asiascape: Digital Asia, 3.3, 2016. Double review: Jonathan Abel, Redacted: the archives of censorship in transwar Japan (University of California Press, 2012), + Kirsten Cather, The art of censorship in postwar Japan (University of Hawai’i Press, 2012), Journal of Asian Studies 73.3, August 2014. Double review: Anne McKnight, Nakagami, Japan: Buraku and the Writing of Ethnicity (University of Minnesota Press, 2011), + Anne Helene Thelle, Nakagami Kenji’s Kiseki and the Power of the Tale (Iudicium, 2010), Monumenta Nipponica 67.1, 2012. Leith Morton, The Alien Within: Representations of the Exotic in Twentieth-Century Japanese Literature (Honolulu: Hawai’i University Press, 2009), Asian Studies Review 34.4, December 2010. Catherine Russell, The Cinema of Naruse Mikio: Women and Japanese Modernity (Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2008) in Monumenta Nipponica 64.1 (Spring 2009). Selected for reprinting in The Japan Times newspaper, 29 November 2009. Thomas Lamarre, Shadows on the Screen: Tanizaki Jun’ichirō on Cinema and ‘Oriental’ Aesthetics (Ann Arbor: Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan, 2005), in The Journal of Asian Studies, 66.1, February 2007. Douglas Slaymaker, Confluences: Postwar Japan and France. Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies, 42. (Ann Arbor: Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan, 2002), in Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 68.2, June 2005. 7  RACHAEL HUTCHINSON Janine Beichman, Embracing the Firebird: Yosano Akiko and the Birth of the Female Voice in Modern Japanese Poetry (Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 2002), in Japan Forum 17.1, March 2005. Dennis Washburn and Carole Cavanaugh (eds), Word and Image in Japanese Cinema (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001), in Japan Forum 16.1, March 2004. Yokomitsu Riichi, Shanghai: A Novel by Yokomitsu Riichi. Translated with a Postscript by Dennis Washburn (Ann Arbor: Center for Japanese Studies, The University of Michigan, 2001), in Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 66.1, February 2003. Yukiko Tanaka, Women Writers of Meiji and Taisho Japan: Their Lives, Works and Critical Reception, 1868-1926 (Jefferson, NC. and London: McFarland & Company, 2000), in Japan Forum 14.3, November 2002. Double review: Stephen Snyder, Fictions of Desire: Narrative Form in the Novels of Nagai Kafū (Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 2000), + Nagai Kafū, translated by Mitsuko Iriye, American Stories (New York: Columbia University Press, 2000), in Japan Forum 14.1, March 2002. Translations Natsume Sōseki, ‘Statement on Joining the Asahi’, in Michael K. Bourdaghs, Joseph A. Murphy and Atsuko Ueda (eds.), Natsume Sōseki: The Theory of Literature and Other Critical Writings, Columbia University Press, 2009, pp.155-158. Other publications ‘Foreword’, to Schoolgirl, by Dazai Osamu, trans. Allison Markin Powell, One Peace Books, 2012. ‘Modern Japanese Literature’, entry in Visiting Arts: Japan Cultural Directory, ed. Tim Doling, Visiting Arts United Kingdom, 2006. ‘Critique of Meiji and Defining the Japanese Self: The Returnee Stories of Nagai Kafū, 1909- 1910’, Leeds East Asia Paper Series, no.62, University of Leeds, 2000. ‘Literature Across Cultures: Nagai Kafū and Furansu Monogatari’, in Culture in Context: A Selection of Papers Presented at Inter-Cultural Studies ’96, ed. G. Squires, Department of Modern Languages, University of Newcastle, 1996, pp.22-36. 8  RACHAEL HUTCHINSON INVITED LECTURES ‘Japanese Culture through Videogames,’ Hirschmann-McWilliams Distinguished Lecture Series for Asian Studies Program, Towson University, April 2018. ‘Representations of Women in Japanese War-themed Videogames’, annual Mae and Robert Carter Endowment Women’s Studies Faculty Research Award public lecture, University of Delaware, October 2017. ‘Refracted Visions: Transmedia Storytelling in Japanese Videogames’, Keynote Address for Replaying Japan conference, Strong National Museum of Play/ Rochester Institute of Technology, August 2017. ‘Meiji, Manga and Murakami – What do we mean by “Modern Japanese Literature”?’ Invited talk for Asian Studies program, Temple University, February 2017. ‘Games in the Japanese Studies Classroom: Access and Achievability’, invited plenary talk for Harvard University Teaching Videogames Workshop, April 2016. ‘Embodiment, agency and the anti-nuclear critique: Final Fantasy as discursive practice’, invited paper for Gaming East Asia conference at Princeton University, April 2016. ‘Teaching Japanese Videogames: Why, How and an example of What’, invited video- conferenced lecture for the National Consortium for Teaching About Asia, March 2015. Available to view on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BT147H3HKMA ‘Censorship as Education: Film violence and ideology’, invited paper for symposium ‘Unfreedom of Expression: Self-censorship and Imagination in the Media’, Japan-in-Asia Cultural Research Centre, Nagoya University, January 2015. ‘(Dis)figuring China: Race, disability and player identification in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas’, invited paper for symposium ‘World Craft: the business and culture of gaming in East Asia’, UC Berkeley, February 2011. ‘Virtual Colonialism: Japanese representations of identity in Soul Calibur’, invited paper for Virtual Realities Workshop, Hong Kong University, August 2010. ‘Not just a rubber stamp: Kurosawa Akira and Occupation censorship’. Toshiba International Foundation Address, British Association for Japanese Studies, Manchester, UK, April 2008. ‘The Modern Dilemma Solved! Nagai Kafū’s Occidentalist Critique’, University of Pennsylvania’s Center for East Asian Studies Humanities Colloquium, April 2007. ‘Meiji Occidentalism: Nagai Kafū’s travels to the “West”’, invited lecture for Western Michigan University’s Soga Japan Center Speaker Series, January 2007. 9  RACHAEL HUTCHINSON ‘Writing the Other, Defining the Self: Japanese Identity in the Twentieth Century’, presented on invitation for the University of Pittsburgh’s ‘Asia Over Lunch’ forum, March 2006. ‘Seattle and Tacoma in the Japanese Diaspora: Nagai Kafū’s Tales of America’, invited for ‘Narratives of the East Asian Diaspora’ seminar series, Connecticut College, February 2006. ‘Kichōsha Nagai Kafū no shisō: “Kindai Nihon” o motomete’, paper presented on invitation at Gakushūin Symposium on Euro-Japanese Cultural Relations, Tokyo, October 2001. ‘Occidentalism in Nagai Kafū: Constructing the ‘America’ of Amerika monogatari’, paper presented on invitation at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, April 2001. PUBLIC CAMPUS LECTURES ‘The Past in the Present: racial stereotype and colonial discourse in Japanese videogames,’ Global Digital Cultures and ASRC300 ‘Issues in Global Studies,’ 15 February 2017. ‘Japanese War Games – an impossible genre?’ public research talk for International Games Day, University of Delaware Morris Library, 12 November 2016. ‘Videogames as Discursive Practice: anti-nuclear critique in Final Fantasy’, University of Delaware Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures Faculty Research speaker series, Wednesday 8 October 2014. ‘In Defense of San Andreas: Representing Race in Grand Theft Auto’, Directions in Game Studies speaker series, University of Delaware, November 20, 2013. CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS ‘The Body Political: Kantai Collection media and WWII enactment’, accepted for Asian Studies Association of Australia conference, Sydney, Australia, July 2018. Chair/organizer: ‘Revisiting Japanese Literature,’ including my paper ‘Nagai Kafū’s feminist perspective: Revisiting danryū-bungaku-ron’, Mid-Atlantic Region Association for Asian Studies conference, Drexel University, October 2017. Chair/organizer: ‘Presidential Roundtable: Asia and the Environment,’ with The Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University, Mid-Atlantic Region Association for Asian Studies conference, Drexel University, October 2017. ‘Selling Japan in Ōkami: artwork, legend and visual signs,’ Mid-Atlantic Region Association for Asian Studies conference, Towson University, October 2016. ‘Distancing War: Japanese videogames and WWII’, Replaying Japan, Leipzig, August 2016. 10  RACHAEL HUTCHINSON ‘Fukasaku and Kojima replay Hiroshima: atomic imagery in games and film’, DiGRA/FDG conference, Dundee, August 2016. ‘Nucleus of Dread: Bioethics and atomic crisis in Japanese videogames,’ Mid-Atlantic Region Association for Asian Studies conference, University of Pittsburgh, October 2015. ‘Cross-media memory: Hiroshima in games and film’, paper presented at Association for Asian Studies conference, Chicago, March 2015. Chair/Organizer: ‘Connections and Directions: Establishing a Game Studies Research Group at the University of Delaware’, Roundtable, Southwest Popular/American Culture Association conference, Albuquerque, February 2015. ‘Playing war: Japanese videogames and WWII,’ paper presented at Mid-Atlantic Region Association for Asian Studies conference, Hofstra University, September 2014. ‘Embodied experience and social critique: anti-nuclear discourse in Final Fantasy’, paper presented at ‘Replaying Japan’ conference, University of Alberta, Edmonton, August 2014. Chair/Organizer: ‘Putting the J in JRPG: Japanese Culture and Videogames’, including my own paper, ‘Absentee Parents in the JRPG: social critique in Japanese videogames’, Association for Asian Studies conference, Philadelphia, March 2014. Chair/Organizer: ‘Immersive Worlds: Genre, Graphics and Race in Videogames’, Mid- Atlantic Region Association for Asian Studies conference, UD, November 2013. Chair/Organizer: ‘Critical Approaches to the Japanese Roleplaying Game’, including my own paper, ‘Player-character identification in the JRPG: single and multiple selves in Final Fantasy X’, Asian Studies Conference Japan, Tokyo, June 2013. ‘Teaching Final Fantasy X: accounting for nuclear nostalgia’, paper presented at the Second Teaching Japan Conference, Between ‘Cool’ and 3.11: Implications for Teaching Japan Today, Elizabethtown PA, April 2013. ‘Orientalism and Disability: redefining China in GTA San Andreas’, paper presented at the Mid-Atlantic Region of the Association for Asian Studies (MAR/AAS) annual conference, West Chester University, Pennsylvania, October 2012. Chair/Organizer: ‘The Significance of Videogames for Japanese Studies’, including my own paper, ‘Teaching games in a university syllabus: logistical problems and solutions’, at International Conference of Asian Scholars/Association for Asian Studies (ICAS/AAS joint conference), Honolulu, March-April 2011. ‘Flexible Location: “Asia” as both Self and Other in Japanese computer games’, paper presented at conference ‘In the Image of Asia: moving across and between locations’, Australian National University, Canberra, April 2010. 11  RACHAEL HUTCHINSON Discussant/Organizer: ‘Negotiating Censorship in Modern Japan’, panel given at the Association for Asian Studies conference, Philadelphia, March 2010. ‘Creating a story: Binary narratives and the “character select” screen in combat videogames’, paper presented in panel I organized: ‘Beyond Narrative Tradition: Modes of Story Telling in New Japanese Arts’, Mid-Atlantic Region of the Association for Asian Studies (MAR/AAS) annual conference, Villanova, Pennsylvania, October 2009. ‘Wikis and Blogs for teaching Japanese Visual Culture’, in Roundtable ‘Web Tools in the Classroom: Implications for Teaching and Learning’, organized by Matthew Mizenko, Mid- Atlantic Region of the Association for Asian Studies conference, Villanova, October 2009. ‘Death of the kindai jiga: formulations of the Japanese self from Reishō to Final Fantasy’, presented at the Association for Asian Studies conference, Chicago, March 2009. ‘Competing Selves: agency and performance in the Japanese binary combat game’, presented in the panel I organised, ‘Beyond Competition: Japanese videogames as linguistic and cultural texts’, Mid-Atlantic Region of the Association for Asian Studies (MAR/AAS) annual conference, Rutgers, New Jersey, October 2008. ‘Sabotaging the Rising Sun: Conflict and Consequence in Tezuka Osamu’s Phoenix’, presented at the Association of Teachers of Japanese (ATJ) Seminar, Boston, March 2007. ‘Monumental Significance: Statuary and the State in Nagai Kafū’s Tales of America’, presented at the International Conference on Japanese Language Education (ICJLE), Columbia University, New York, August 2006. ‘Hold that Pose! Photography and Kabuki in Takeshi Kitano’s Kikujirō’, presented at Asian Studies Conference Japan (ASCJ), International Christian University, Tokyo, June 2006. ‘Manga in the Classroom: the Possibilities of Narrative’, Southwest and Texas Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association Annual Conference, Albuquerque, February 2006. ‘The Politics of Representation: Self and Other in Modern Japanese Literature’, Colgate University Humanities Colloquium Series, November 2005. ‘A Fistful of Yojimbo: Appropriation and Dialogue in Japanese Cinema’, Mid-Atlantic Region Association for Asian Studies, Pittsburgh, October 2005. ‘Positioning the Observer: Interrogations of Alterity in Amerika monogatari’, presented in the panel I organized, ‘Fallout from the Kafū boom: Critique and Resistance in Modern Japanese Literature’. Association for Asian Studies, San Diego, March 2004. ‘Who Holds the Whip? Power and Critique in Nagai Kafū’s Amerika monogatari’, presented at workshop, Representing the Other: A Critical Approach to Modern Japanese Literature, University of Leeds, June 2003. 12  RACHAEL HUTCHINSON ‘Nagai Kafū’s “Orient” and Orientalism’, presented at Japanese Studies Association of Australia biennial conference, Sydney, 2001. ‘Nagai Kafū’s Orient: the Construction of a Hierarchical “Asia”’, paper presented at European Association for Japanese Studies Conference, Lahti, Finland, August 2000. ‘Critique of Meiji and Defining the Japanese Self: The Returnee Stories of Nagai Kafū’, presented at Japanese Studies Association of Australia conference, Rockhampton, 1999. 13