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Will Gardner is a Professor of Japanese and Section Head of Chinese and Japanese at Swarthmore College, where he has taught since 2002. He is affiliated with Film & Media Studies, Asian Studies, Modern Languages & Literatures, and Comparative Literature.
He earned his B.A. from Columbia University and his Ph.D. in Japanese literature from Stanford University. His doctoral work focused on Japanese modernist literature of the 1920s and 1930s, and he continues to explore the intersections between literary and visual media.
Research Focus:
- Japanese modernism and its relationship to visual culture
- Postwar Japanese architecture and science fiction
- Intermediality between literature, film, and urban design
- Transnational Japanese literature and diaspora
Publications: Gardner is the author of two major monographs: Advertising Tower: Japanese Modernism and Modernity in the 1920’s (Harvard University Asia Center, 2006) and The Metabolist Imagination: Visions of the City in Postwar Japanese Architecture and Science Fiction (University of Minnesota Press, 2020). His work has appeared in leading journals such as Japan Forum, Canadian Journal of Film Studies, and Cinema Journal.
Teaching: He teaches courses on Japanese film, modernism, transnational literature, and speculative fiction. Recent and upcoming courses include:
- Japanese Modernism
- Fantastic Spaces in Modern Japanese Literature
- Transnational Graphic Fiction
- Environment, Cultural Memory, and Social Change in Japan
Media Engagement: Gardner has been featured on the How Do You Like It So Far? podcast and contributed an excerpt from his book to the journal Places.
