Sharalyn Orbaugh

Sharalyn Orbaugh is the Department Head and Professor of Modern Japanese Literature and Popular Culture at the Department of Asian Studies, Faculty of Arts, University of British Columbia. She is also an Associate at the Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice.

• Education: PhD in Far Eastern Languages and Literatures, University of Michigan (1989)

Research Interests:

• Visual and narrative culture of wartime and Occupation era Japan (1930s-1950s), focusing on prose fiction, women's/children's magazines, kamishibai, propaganda dynamics, and censorship.
• Posthuman narratives in Japanese fiction, film, manga, and anime, exploring science fiction and ontological boundary queering.
• Postwar women's fiction in Japan, analyzing bodily engagement and gender/sexuality discourses.
• Comparative study of anomalous embodiment in popular culture across Europe, North America, and East Asia.