Dr Seiko Yasumoto
PhD (Queensland University of Technology), MA (Macquarie University), MA (Columbia University), BA (Pace University), AA Law (Meiji University).
Senior Lecturer
A18 - Brennan MacCallum Building
The University of Sydney
Telephone | +61 2 9351 4716 |
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Biographical details
Dr. Seiko Yasumoto lectures and carries out research on Japanese media and cultural studies as well as language use in society. Her primary research is in broadcasting media within the domain of cultural globalization and popular culture. The scope includes transmission of content, copyright, adaptation theory, youth culture, audience analysis and trans-national media cultural flows in Japan and East Asia. She is currently the Japan and North, East Asia regional representative of the Asian Studies of Association of Australia and East Asia Popular Culture Board (East Asia regional) and an executive committee member of the Oriental Society of Australia. She holds a prestigious Teaching Excellence Award from Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, The University of Sydney.
Research interests
- Media and cultural studies: media adaptation theories, media industries, copyright and authorship, popular culture, youth culture, media and cultural globalization.
- Transnational media cultural flows in Asia.
- Language use in socio-cultural context.
Teaching and supervision
Teaching
- ASNS 6905: Asian Popular Culture (2008-current)
- ASNS 2670 Mass Media in East Asia 2011(guest lecturer 2011-)
- ASNS 6097: Supervised Reading in Asian Studies (S2 2008)
- GCST 6904: Asian Diasporic Cultural Studies (guest lecturer S2 2010)
- JPNS 2672: Japanese Media and Popular Culture
- JPNS 3632: Japanese 10 (S2 2011)
- JPNS 3631: Japanese 9 (S1 2001-2010)
- JPNS 1612: Japanese 2
- JPNS 1611: Japanese 1
Supervision
- Media and cultural studies: media adaptation theories, media industries, copyright and authorship, popular culture, youth culture and television studies.
- Transnational media culture flows in Asia.
- Language use in socio-cultural context.
Current projects
Seiko Yasumoto is working on two book projects with Japanese scholars and Asian scholars on media and cultural studies. One is on East Asia Media Flows in Transition and the other is Popular Culture Dialogues: Japan and East Asia. She recently completed a term of office as an invited editor of the special issue on global media, the scholarly journal, A Journal of Oriental Society of Australia. She is also engaged in collaborative research with Media scholars from The Queensland University Technology. Besides her current research projects, She is also developing ‘Anime’: an online multimedia project for teaching Japanese and Kanji workbook for Kanji backgrounds and non- Kanji backgrounds. She is one of the collaborative researchers engaged in a comparative study on the motivations of learners of Japanese with colleagues from North Carolina University, USA and the University of New England, Australia.
Selected publications
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