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Shoko Komatsu is a Professor at Waseda University's Faculty of Letters, Arts and Sciences since April 2024. She previously held academic roles at Kinjo Gakuin University from 2002 to 2024, including positions in its Department of Japanese Culture and College of Humanities. A double graduate from The University of Tokyo with a Master's (2002) and PhD (2002) in Language and Information Sciences/Humanities, her work bridges Japanese literature, detective fiction, gender studies, and cultural anthropology.
Her research focuses on Edogawa Ranpo, comparative literature, and popular culture, particularly detective novels and popular literature. She has explored topics like the South Sea as an unhistorical region in detective fiction, gendered dislocation zones in Yoshiya Nobuko's works, and ninja representations in girls' manga. Her projects include JSPS-funded research on preserving modern Japanese detective fiction archives and analyzing abnormal psychology in 1920-1930s media.
Though no specific scientific awards are listed, her media engagements (e.g., NHK programs on Edogawa Ranpo) highlight public outreach. She has contributed to edited volumes like Japanese Subculture and Crisis and Mysterious and Nationalism, while supervising grant-funded initiatives such as 'Fundamental Research for Preservation of Modern Japanese Detective Novels' (2023-2027) and 'Ninja and Detective: Cultural Studies' (2013-2016). Her teaching includes graduate seminars at Waseda and undergraduate courses at Kinjo Gakuin, emphasizing contemporary literature, popular novels, and text criticism.
