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The University of Western Australia (M204), 35 Stirling Highway,
6009 Perth
Australia
Masafumi Monden is an emerging fashion and cultural studies scholar specializing in Japanese culture. He has been invited to speak at national and international symposiums including The Museum at Fashion Institute of Technology Annual Symposium, New York and The Asian Art Museum's Global Impact of Japanese Fashion public seminar, San Francisco.
He regularly publishes in high quality presses such as the Yale University Press in the areas of men's and women's clothing, Japan, art, youth and popular culture. His first book, Japanese Fashion Cultures is released from Bloomsbury Academic (2015). The book investigates the complexities of dress and gender, and demonstrates the flexible nature of contemporary fashion and style exchange in an increasingly global context.
Masafumi has also served on the PhD Committee, and serves as a peer-reviewer on academic journals and manuscripts, including Bloomsbury Academic, Fashion Theory, Business History, US- Japan Women's Journal, Japanese Studies, Men and Masculinities, and Asian Studies Review.
Masafumi is currently working on two book-length projects: one on cultural imagination of Japanese girlhood (shoujo) and boyhood (shounen), and another on cultural history of fashion, consumerism, aesthetics and the body in modern Japan.
Masafumi is a recent recipient of the Japan Foundation Japanese Studies Fellowship (2016) and The National Library of Australia Fellowship in Japan Studies (2017).
Masafumi currently teaches:
In addition, he supervises an Honours student (co-supervision).
*Teaching Award Nominations*
Awards for Teaching Excellence, the Faculty of Arts, Business, Law and Education, 2020
Masafumi has taught international relations, world history, Japanese literature, culture and history, and Asian popular culture at the University of Sydney and the University of Technology Sydney.
In addition to the presentation of his work in academic contexts, Masafumi's expertise and knowledge in gender, culture, fashion and Japanese youth studies have attracted attention in a variety of non-academic settings, including in media appearances such as ABC Radio National (Canberra, July 2017) and the New York Times (January 2017).
Masafumi has taught Japanese at Saturday Japanese language school for children in Sydney, NSW (2014 - 2015) and often helps high school students with their school projects concerning Japan, Asia, gender and culture.
He enjoys giving public lecture on Japanese culture (e.g. the National Library of Australia, 2017) and Japanese fashion (e.g. Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, 2019) to communicate his research outside of academia.
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
School of Design, University of Technology Sydney, 2017 - 2019.
International Researcher
Interfaculty Initiative in Information Studies, University of Tokyo, 2016 - 2017.
English
Japanese
French (basic)
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Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Chapter in Book/Conference paper › Chapter › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article in specialist publication
Research output: Chapter in Book/Conference paper › Chapter › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article in specialist publication › peer-review
Monden, Masafumi (Recipient), 2020
Prize: Fellowship
Monden, Masafumi (Recipient), 29 Jul 2016
Prize: Fellowship
Masafumi Monden (Reviewer)
Activity: Editorial work or peer review of publications › Editorial activity
Masafumi Monden (Speaker)
Activity: Service and engagement › Public outreach/ public event
Masafumi Monden (Reviewer)
Activity: Editorial work or peer review of publications › Editorial activity
Masafumi Monden (Visiting researcher)
Activity: External visits › Visiting an external academic institution