Dr Ian McArthur
Ian McArthur is a former Tokyo correspondent for the Herald and Weekly Times group of newspapers. In 2002, he completed a PhD in Asian Studies at The University of Sydney. He has taught in Japanese language, Japanese Studies, and Asian Studies programs at universities in the Sydney area. He has also taught in Media in Asia programs at Macquarie University and at the Sydney international campus of Central Queensland University. Ian works as a translator, English language teacher, editor, and writer. In 2009, he was a recipient of the third Inoue Yasushi Award for Outstanding Research in Japanese Literature in Australia. The award was for his paper,Narrating the Law in Japan – Rakugo in the Meiji Law Reform Debate, in the Electronic Journal of Contemporary Japanese Studies. See:www.japanesestudies.org.uk/articles/2008/McArthur.htmlIan’s website is at henryblack.com.au
- Adaptations by oral storytellers (rakugoka), playwrights and newspapers of popular European detective fiction as mediums for the transmission to Japan of nineteenth-century European notions of modernity.
- The use of media, particularly the print media, in cross-cultural interchange between the West and Japan
- The role of Japan’s reporters’ clubs (kisha kurabu) as filters of information.
Ian is writing a work of historical fiction about Henry Black. For details about Black visit henryblack.com.au
2009 Inoue Yasushi Award (presented annually to a researcher in Australia for Outstanding Research in Japanese Literature in Australia). For‘Narrating the Law in Japan – Rakugo in the Meiji Law Reform Debate’, in Electronic Journal of Contemporary Japanese Studies. See:www.japanesestudies.org.uk/articles/2008/McArthur.html
Selected publications
(Monash University Publishing, 2013)
Publications
Books
- McArthur, I. (2013). Henry Black: On Stage in Meiji Japan. Clayton, Victoria: Monash University Publishing.
Journals
- McArthur, I. (2017). Mary Braddon and the English Heroine in Meiji-Era Japan. The IAFOR Journal of Asian Studies, 3(1), 19-33. [More Information]
- McArthur, I. (2013). Le rakugo et Henry Black: Comment un Britannique conta la modernite a Meiji. Cipango, 20, 1-19. [More Information]
- McArthur, I. (2009). Review of Yasuko Claremont's "The novels of Oe Kenzaburo". JOSA: The Journal of the Oriental Society of Australia, 41, 153-156.
2017
- McArthur, I. (2017). Mary Braddon and the English Heroine in Meiji-Era Japan. The IAFOR Journal of Asian Studies, 3(1), 19-33. [More Information]
2013
- McArthur, I. (2013). Henry Black: On Stage in Meiji Japan. Clayton, Victoria: Monash University Publishing.
- McArthur, I. (2013). Le rakugo et Henry Black: Comment un Britannique conta la modernite a Meiji. Cipango, 20, 1-19. [More Information]
2009
- McArthur, I. (2009). Review of Yasuko Claremont's "The novels of Oe Kenzaburo". JOSA: The Journal of the Oriental Society of Australia, 41, 153-156.
2002
- McArthur, I. (2002). Australian, British or Japanese?: Henry Black in Japan. Japanese Studies, 22(3), 305-318.
Other professional contributions
Ian has served on the executive of the Japanese Studies Association of Australia (JSAA). He helped prepare and run the association’s conferences and worked to build links between JSAA and similar organisations in other countries. Ian has edited papers for refereed journals, includingJapanese Studiesand theJournal of the Oriental Society of Australia(JOSA) where he is an associate editor. He coordinated the 2010 lecture seriesLiving Historiesfor the Japan Foundation’s Sydney branch, and lectured about Japanese art at theSeasonsexhibition at the Art Gallery of New South Wales in 2003. In 2006, he coordinated a visit to Australia by members of the Japan Professional Narrators Association for performances at The University of New South Wales, Australian National University and Monash University. Ian has been a media consultant to the Embassy of Japan, advising the embassy on trends in the Australian media and on Japanese Studies at Australian universities.