Amanda Weiss is Associate Professor of Japanese at Georgia Institute of Technology, where she teaches courses on Japanese media and society. She is also editor and founder of Hivemind: Global Speculative Fiction, a science fiction and fantasy magazine with a focus on language and culture. She leads a VIP or Vertically Integrated Project in East Asian Media, with student projects that have included archival work, translation, photography, and media analysis. Her book, Han Heroes and Yamato Warriors: Competing Masculinities in Chinese and Japanese War Cinema (Hong Kong University Press, 2023), explores contemporary East Asian remembrance of WWII. She is currently completing a textbook on learning Japanese through Anime Studies with co-authors Aya McDaniel and Yuko Ogawa.
Prior to her work at Georgia Tech, Amanda taught at Earlham College and held a Postdoctoral Fellowship at Emory University's Bill and Carol Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry. She has also conducted research at the University of Southern California, the Beijing Film Academy (Fulbright), the University of Cambridge, and the University of Tokyo.
Education:
University of Tokyo, Ph.D. Information Studies
Cambridge University, M.Phil. Chinese
University of Southern California, B.A. Film Production and Chinese
Awards and Distinctions:
Fulbright Grant (China) 2006-2007
Areas of Expertise:
Chinese Cinema
Collective Memory
Cultural Studies
Film Studies
Japanese Cinema
Media Studies
Transnational Film
Interests
Research Fields:
Chinese
Japanese
Literary and Cultural Studies
Media Studies
Geographic Focuses:
Asia (East)
Issues:
Gender
Cinema Studies
East-Asian Studies
History and Memory
Literature
Media
Television Studies
Courses
FREN-6503: Professional Portfolio
GRMN-6503: Professional Portfoilio
JAPN-2002: Intermediate Japanese II
JAPN-3001: Advanced Japanese I
JAPN-3401: Popular Culture in Japan
JAPN-3691: Tech & Scientific Japn
JAPN-3693: Japan Today
JAPN-4113: Adv Reading & Listening
JAPN-4173: Anime: Culture&Society
JAPN-4183: JAPN Cul/Soc Thru Songs
JAPN-4193: Documentary Cul/Society
JAPN-4500: Intercultural Seminar
JAPN-6173: Anime Culture & Society
JAPN-6183: Songs: Culture & Society
JAPN-6193: JAPN Cul & Soc Thr Doc
JAPN-6500: Intercultural Seminar
ML-2500: Intro Cross-Cult Studies
SPAN-6503: Professional Portfolio
Publications
Recent Publications
Books
Han Heroes and Yamato Warriors: Competing Masculinities in Chinese and Japanese War Films
Chishiki no datsushokuminchika [The Decolonization of Knowledge]
In:Yoshimi Shun’ya ron: Shakaigaku to mediaron no kanо̄sei [Shun’ya Yoshimi Theory: Possibilities for Sociology and Media Studies] [Peer Reviewed] Date: April 2023
Aya Hanabusa’s Holy Island: Nuclear Power and Political Resistance in Iwaishima, Japan
In:A Global Humanities Approach to the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals: Understanding Planet, People and Prosperity [Peer Reviewed] Date: 2023
Chishiki no datsushokuminchika [The Decolonization of Knowledge]
In:Yoshimi Shun’ya ron: Shakaigaku to mediaron no kanо̄sei [Shun’ya Yoshimi Theory: Possibilities for Sociology and Media Studies] [Peer Reviewed] Date: April 2023
Aya Hanabusa’s Holy Island: Nuclear Power and Political Resistance in Iwaishima, Japan
In:A Global Humanities Approach to the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals: Understanding Planet, People and Prosperity [Peer Reviewed] Date: 2023