Shigeru Suzuki

Education

Ph.D., Literature, University of California Santa Cruz

Coursework Finished, English and Comparative Literature, San Diego State University San Diego United States

M.A., English and American Lit., Meiji University Tokyo

B.A., Creative Writing & Jap. Lit., Waseda University Tokyo

Books

Suzuki, S., & Stewart, R. (2022). Manga: A Critical Guide. Bloomsbury Publisher.

Journal Articles

Suzuki, S. (2019). Yokai Monsters at Large: Mizuki Shigeru’s Manga, Transmedia Practices, and (Lack of) Cultural Politics. International Journal of Communication,

Suzuki, S. (2018). Joe Sacco’s Comics Journalism: Media Specificity, Mise-en-page, and the Pain of Others (in Japanese; will be published in 2019). Kinseido,

Suzuki, S. (2016). Reviving the Power of Storytelling: Post-3/11 Online “Amateur” Manga. The Japan Studies Review, XX.

Suzuki, S. (2014). Traversing Art and Manga: Ishiko Junzo’s Writings on Manga/Gekiga. Comics Forum,

(2013). Sound Effects in the 'Silent' Medium: Japanese Sound Symbolism in Contemporary Japanese Comics . The American Society of Geolinguistics, Cummings & Hathaway, 37. 209-222.

(2012). Envisioning Alternative Communities through a Popular Medium: Speculative Imagination in Hagio Moto's Girls' Comics. International Journal of Comic Art (IJOCA), 13(2). 57-74.

Suzuki, S. (2011). Learning from Monsters: Mizuki Shigeru's Yokai and War Manga". Imaga [&] Narrative, 12(1). 229-244.

(2011). Becoming Aliens: Other(ed) Voices of the Posthuman in Octavia E. Butler's Lilith's Brood" in Journal of Multi-Ethnic Studies Association (Japan). Multi-Ethnic Studies Association (MESA), 4. 48-70.

Suzuki, S. (2010). Manga/Comics Studies from the Perspective of SF Research: Genre, Transmedia, (Trans)Nationalism" in Comics Worlds and the World of Comics: Scholarship on a Global Scale . Daigo shobo, 1. 65-79.

(2003). Cyborg Agency in the Digital Age: On William Gibson’s Neuromancer . Lore: Rhetoric, Writing, Culture; San Diego: San Diego State Univ, 3(1). 71-79.

Book Chapters

Suzuki, S. (2020). A Medium Specific Approach to Manga/Comics beyond Area Studies. In Toku, M., & Dollase, H. T. (Eds.), STEAM to STREAM: Education with Visual Pop-Culture (Manga)

Suzuki, S. (2020). Yokai Monsters at Large: Mizuki Shigeru’s Manga, Transmedia Practices, and (Lack of) Cultural Politics. In Jin, D. Y. (Ed.), Transmedia Storytelling in East Asia : The Age of Digital Media New York,USA. Routledge.

Suzuki, S. (2020). Cyberpunk and Manga. In McFarlane, A., Murphy, G., & Schmeink, L. (Eds.), The Routledge Companion to Cyberpunk Culture Routledge.

Suzuki, S. (2019). Reviving the Power of Storytelling: Post-3/11 Online “Amateur” Manga. In Fusami, O., Suter, R., Nagaike, K., & Lent, J. (Eds.), Women’s Manga in Asia and Beyond Uniting Different Cultures and Identities (pp. 309-332). New York. Palgrave Macmillan.

Suzuki, S. (2019). [Translation] Kim Icreverzi, "When a Woman Makes Movies: Hamano Sachi's Reproductive Labor Without End". In Tsukada, Y. (Ed.), Film and Gender/Ethnicity (pp. 195-233). Tokyo, Minervashobo,Japan.

(2019). "Manga" in The Routledge Companion to Cyberpunk Culture. The Routledge Companion to Cyberpunk Culture Routledge.

Suzuki, S. (2017). Gekiga, or Japanese Alternative Comics: The Mediascape of Japanese Counterculture. In Freedman, A., & Slade, T. (Eds.), Introducing Japanese Popular Culture New York, NY,Routledge.

Suzuki, S. (2016). ¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿: 3¿ 1 1¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿ (“Reviving the Power of Storytelling: Post-3/11 Online ‘Amateur’ Manga"). ¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿(Studies on Comics by Women) Tokyo,Seikyusha.

Suzuki, S. (2015). ¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿&¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿: ¿¿/¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿(“On the Harold and Kumar Series as Meta-cinema: Race/Ethnic Representation, Comedy, and Subculture. ¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿ 2015,Japan. Akashi shoten.

Suzuki, S. (2015). ¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿ ("Sleepwalkers in the Surveillance Society: Electronic Technologies and Cityscape in Minority Report". ¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿(Film Studies: Film, Media, and Technology) Tokyo,Japan. Minerva Shobo.

Suzuki, S. (2015). Autism and Manga: Comics for Women, Disability, and Tobe Keiko’s With the Light. In Toku, M. (Ed.), International Perspectives on Shojo and Shojo Manga: The Influence of Girl Culture New York, NY,USA. Routledge.

Suzuki, S. (2014). ¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿ ¿¿¿¿·¿¿¿·¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿(“Drawing against Racial(ized) Images in Comics: Gene Luen Yang’s American Born Chinese”) ¿. ¿¿¿¿¿¿¿(Frontier of Ethnic Studies) Tokyo,Japan. Kinseido.

Suzuki, S. (2013). Tatsumi Yoshihiro’s Gekiga and the Global Sixties: Aspiring for an Alternative. In Berndt, J., & Kümerling-Meibauer, B. (Eds.), Manga’s Cultural Crossroads (pp. 48-62). New York, NY,USA. Routledge.

Suzuki, S. (2010). ¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿·¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿("A Carnivalesque Future: Nalo Hopkinson's Midnight Robber and Afrofuturism"). In Noboru et. al., M. (Ed.), ¿¿¿¿·¿¿¿¿:¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿(Bird Images in American Literature) (pp. 140-158). Tokyo,Japan. Kinseido.

Suzuki, S. (2008). Human Bodies in the Information Society: On Wachowski brothers' The Matrix". In Michio, O. (Ed.), 9/11 and America Tokyo. Otorishobo.

Suzuki, S. (2008). Non-political Political Satire: Team America World Police". In Michio, O. (Ed.), 9/11 and America Tokyo. Otorishobo.

Media Contributions

(2016). The Japan Times.

Presentations

Suzuki, S. (2018, August 8). Manga And/As Art Avant-Gardism: Japanese Comics within 1960s’ Visual Culture. The first Comics Studies Society Annual Meeting. Urbana-Champaign, IL: The Comics Studies Society.

Suzuki, S. (2018, March 22). Manga as a Medium: Teaching Language through Manga. The Annual Conference of the American Association of Teachers of Japanese. Washington, D.C.: The American Association of Teachers of Japanese.

Suzuki, S. (2018, July 26). How Comics Can Resist the Information Media: Joe Sacco's Comics Journalism Works (in Japanese). The Multi-Ethnic Studies Association Annual Conference. Tokyo, Japan: The Multi-Ethnic Studies Association.

Suzuki, S. (2018, May 30). Yokai Monsters at Large: Mizuki Shigeru’s Manga, Transmedia, and (Lack of) Politicality. Asian Transmedia Storytelling in the Age of Digital Media. Vancouver, Canada: Simon Fraser University.

Suzuki, S. (2018, May 28). Where the Wild Things Are?: Tezuka’s Manga Magazine COM and the Rise of Amateur Manga Production.. The Annual Conference of the Popular Culture Association. Indianapolis, IN: The Popular Culture Association.

Suzuki, S. (2018, May 19). Teaching Language through Manga: The Use of Wordless Comics. Graphic Novels, Comics and Manga in the Classroom. Montclair, NJ: College of Education and Human Services at Montclair State University.

Suzuki, S. (2017, July 29). Embodying Collective Memories of Hibakusha (Bomb Survivors): Nakazawa Keiji’s Atomic Bomb Manga.. Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Conference. SungKongHoe University, Seoul, Korea: Inter-Asia Cultural Studies.

Suzuki, S. (2017, October 21). Teaching Japanese Popular Culture in North America: Media, Fandom, and Japanese Language Education. The Japanese American Association: Fall Workshop 2017. New York, NY: The Japanese American Association.

Suzuki, S. (2017, March 2). Pushing the Boundary of Manga: Gekiga and Japanese Counterculture. Swarthmore, PA: Swarthmore College (Modern Languages and Comparative Literature).

Suzuki, S. (2016, May 29). Symbolic Resistance through Alternative Comics Magazines: The Mediascape of Japanese Counterculture. Japanese and Korean Youth Culture Conference. Eugene, Oregon: University of Oregon.

Suzuki, S. (2016, July 30). Comics/Manga and Translation: Media Specificities and the Challenge. The Manga Overseas Section of the Japan Society for Studies in Cartoons and Comics (JSSCC, Nihon manga gakkai). Tokyo: The Japan Society for Studies in Cartoons and Comics.

Suzuki, S. (2016, August 6). The Shojo Manga Exhibit and the Importance of Manga Studies. The International Circulation and Reception of Japanese Comics Symposium. Amami, Japan: Amamina (NGO) and Dr. Masami Toku at California State University, Chico.

Suzuki, S. (2016, September 6). Pushing the Boundary of Manga: Gekiga and Japanese Counterculture. New York Comics & Picture-story Symposium. New York, NY: New School.

Suzuki, S. (2016, September 25). Challenges in Translating Scholarly Essays: A Note from the Field of Manga/Comics Studies. Mechademia Conference 2017. Minneapolis, MN: Minneapolis College of Art and Design (MCAD).

Suzuki, S. (2016, October 26). Manga and/as Art Avant-gardism: Japanese Comics within the 1960s’ Japanese Visual Culture. Association of Japanese Literary Studies (AJLS). Pennsylvania State University: Association of Japanese Literary Studies (AJLS).

Suzuki, S. (2016, April 7). The Global Appeals of Japanese Comics: History, Aesthetics, and the Future. Flushing, NY: Queens Library-Flushing, NY.

Suzuki, S. (2016, March 28). “The Construction of Postmemory about Hibakusha: Kono Fumiyo’s Manga about the Bombing of Hiroshima”. The Annual Popular Culture Conference/American Culture Association. Seattle, WA. March 28th, 2016

Suzuki, S. (2015, March 26). The Use of Japanese Sound Symbolism In Contemporary Japanese Comics. The 2015 Annual Spring Conference of AATJ. Chicago: American Association for Teachers of Japanese (AATJ).

Suzuki, S. (2015, November 13). The Appeals of Shinkai Makoto’s Anime: Aesthetics, Techniques, and Fan Culture. New York, NY: The Consulate General of Japan, New York.

Suzuki, S. (2015, August 25). Potentials and Problematics of Manga Studies. Waku Waku + NYC. Brooklyn, NY: Waku Waku + NYC.

Suzuki, S. (2014, June 19). "Cool Japan: Its Potentials and Problems". Idea Lab for The Sonic Life of A Giant Tortoise. Brooklyn, NY: The Play Company.

Suzuki, S. (2014, May 12). Living with Monsters: A Critique of Anthropocentrism in Mizuki Shigeru’s NonNonBa. Annual Popular Culture Association Conference 2014. Chicago: Popular Culture Association.

Suzuki, S. (2014, March 27). The Construction of Postmemory about Hibakusha: Kono Fumiyo’s Atomic Bomb Manga. Association for Asian Studies (AAS) Annual Conference 2014. Philadelphia: Association for Asian Studies.

Suzuki, S. (2014, November 2). Close Encounter: The Online “Amateur” Manga about International Marriage My Lovely Chinese Wife by Inoue Jun’ichi’. Manga Futures: Institutional and Fan Approaches in Japan and Beyond. Wollongong, Australia: The University of Wollongong.

Suzuki, S. (2013, March 24). The Recycled Past of Feudal Japan: Shirato Sanpei’s Gekiga and the Japanese Sixties. Association for Asian Studies (AAS) Annual Conference 2013. San Diego, CA: Association for Asian Studies (AAS).

Suzuki, S. (2013, July 7). Against the Historical Forces through Comics: Gene Luen Yang's American Born Chinese. The 13th Manga Conference Annual Conference (Manga gakkai). Kokura, Japan: Manga gakkai.

Suzuki, S. (2013, July 6). Reviving the Power of Story-telling: Post-3/11 Online "Amateur" Comics. Cultural Typhoon 2013. Tokyo: Association for Cultural Typhoon.

Suzuki, S. (2013, June 29). Towards A New Solidarity: Post-3/11 Comics in Multimedia Platforms. The 17th Annual Asian Studies Conference Japan (ASCJ 2013). Kanagawa, Japan: Asian Studies Conference Japan.

Suzuki, S. (2012, July 3). Ethics and Politics of Representations of the Disabled: On Keiko Tobe's With the Light. Crossroads in Cultural Studies 2012. Paris, France: Association for Cultural Studies (ACS).

Suzuki, S. (2012, September 7). Sound Effects in the Soundless Medium: Onomatopoeia and Mimesis in Japanese Comics.. The American Society of Geolinguistics Annual Conference. Baruch College (CUNY), NY: The American Society of Geolinguistics.

Suzuki, S. (2012, September 7). Sound Effects in the Soundless Medium: Onomatopoeia and Mimesis in Japanese Comics. Annual Conference of American Society of Geolinguistics. New York, NY: American Society of Geolinguistics.

Suzuki, S. (2012, January 6). The Mediascape of Garo: An Alternative Manga Magazine in the Sixties. Modern Language Association (MMLA) Annual Convention 2012. Seattle, WA: Modern Language Association.

Suzuki, S. (2012, March 23). Social Potential of the Comics Medium: Tobe Keiko's With the Light. Women & Manga - Connecting with Cultures beyond Japan. Hanoi, Vietnam: The Japan Foundation Center for Cultural Exchange in Vietnam, Women’s MANGA Research Project, asianbeat of Fukuoka Prefectural Government.

Suzuki, S. (2012, June 16). Rhizomatic Glocalization: Conversations and Negotiations between Japanese Gekiga and American Comics. The International Symposium in Comparative Culture. Yokohama, Japan: Tursumi University.

Suzuki, S. (2012, September 9). Gekiga as the Japanese Version of Graphic Novel: Social Critique in Shirato Sanpei’s Comics Works. First Graphic Novel Conference. Oxford, UK: Inter-Disciplinary.Net.

Suzuki, S. (2011, October 1). Constituting a Countercultural Subject: The Mediascape of Garo, a Japanese Alternative Comics Magazine. The 11th Annual Schoolgirls and Mobilesuits (SGMS) and Mechademia Conference SGMS 2011. Minneapolis: Minneapolis College of Art and Design (MCAD).

Suzuki, S. (2011, April 23). "Imagining Alternative Communities through the Popular Medium: Speculative Imagination in Hagio Moto's Science Fiction Manga". The 2011 Joint Conference of the National Popular Culture & American Culture Association and the Southwest/Texas Popular Culture & American Culture Association. San Antonio, TX: PCA/ACA.

Suzuki, S. (2011, February 21). "Shojo in Outer Space: The Intersection of Japanese Girls' Comics and SF.". Women's Manga Beyond Japan: Contemporary Comics as Cultural Crossroads in Asia. National University of Singapore: National University of Singapore and Japan Foundation.

Suzuki, S. (2011, November 11). Gekiga, or Japanese Alternative Comics: The Mediascape of Japanese Counterculture. The First International Conference on Comics and Graphic Novels. Madrid, Spain: Instituto Franklin.

Suzuki, S. (2010, March 18). "The Nationalized Bodies of Cyborg: The 'Japanoid' in Oshii Mamoru's Ghost in the Shell2: nnocence". 2010 Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference. Los Angeles, USA

Suzuki, S. (2010, June 18). "Manga as a Political Battlefield: Mizuki Shigeru's Graphic Narratives of the War". ACS Crossroads Conference. Hong Kong, China: Co-organizer of the panel: "Graphic on Graphic: The Ethics of Serious Cartooning in Japan and the World".

Suzuki, S. (2010, October 1). "Tatsumi Yoshihiro and the Gekiga Movement in the Global Sixties". Intercultural Crossovers, Transcultural Flows: Manga/Comics. Cologne, Germany: Cultural Institute of Japan.

Suzuki, S. (2010, March 25). "A Posthuman Tribe: Komatsu Sakyo's Japan Apache and the Japanoid Future". Association for Asian Studies. Philadelphia, USA: Organizer and Chair of the panel: "The Past and Future of Futuristic Japan".

Suzuki, S. (2009, June 20). "Constructing a Postwar Subject with Collective Memories: Nakazawa Keiji's Manga Barefoot Gen and the Location of War Responsibility". ACSJ Conference. Tokyo, Japan

Suzuki, S. (2009, November 11). "On Takita Yoji's Okuribito (Departures)". International Week at Lehigh University.

Suzuki, S. (2009, July 25). "Becoming Aliens: A Posthuman Vision in Octavia E. Butler's Xenogenesis Trilogy". Tokyo Japan: Multi-Ethnic Literature Association.

Suzuki, S. (2009, July 3). "A Posthuman Satire: Dystopian Imagination in Numa Shozo’s Yapoo: the Human Cattle". Cultural Typhoon 2009/Inter-Asia Cultural Typhoon. Tokyo, Japan

Suzuki, S. (2009, December 18). "Manga/Comics Studies from the Perspective of SF Research: Genre, Transmedia, and (Trans)nationalism." Invited panelist.. Comics Worlds & the World of Comics: Scholarship on a Global Scale. Kyoto, Japan

Suzuki, S. (2008, November 5). "On Shinkai Makoto’s Voices of a Distant Star". University of Colorado at Boulder (Kittredge Common)

Suzuki, S. (2008, October 14). "History of Japanese Manga" at Dr. Fay Kleeman’s "East Asian Civilization" course. University of Colorado at Boulder

Suzuki, S. (2008, September 27). "What We Talk about When We Talk about Japanese Popular Culture?". the Colorado Japanese Language Education Association (CJELA). Colorado Spring, CO

Suzuki, S. (2007, October 26). "Struggles for the Posthumans: Humans and the Human Other in Octavia E. Butler’s Dawn". EGAD Conference 2007 at A&M Commerce. Texas, USA

Suzuki, S. (2007, September 1). "William Gibson and Japan". World Science Fiction Convention in Yokohama (NIPPON 2007). Yokohama, Japan

Suzuki, S. (2007, September 1). "Sexual Japan: SF and SM". World Science Fiction Convention in Yokohama (NIPPON2007). Yokohama, Japan

Suzuki, S. (2007, July 2). "Posthuman Dystopia: Race, Technology, and Masochism in Numa Shozo's Yapoo: the Human Cattle". Cultural Typhoon 2007. Nagoya, Japan

Suzuki, S. (2006, July 2). "The City as A Cyborg: The Anarchist Community in William Gibson’s Bridge Trilogy". Cultural Typhoon 2007. Tokyo, Japan

Suzuki, S. (2006, July 9). "On Study Abroad" at a class of "English Composition". Waseda University

Suzuki, S. (2006, November 19). "On Ichikawa Jun’s Tony Takitani" (based on Murakami Haruki’s short story). University of California, Santa Cruz (World Film Festival)

Suzuki, S. (2006, February 17). "Contemporary Japanese Society and Gender" in Sakae Fujita's "Japanese Language and Culture" course.

Suzuki, S. (2005, May 19). Japanese Anime in the Age of Globalization" in Shiho Satsuka's "Japanese Culture and Society" course. Stanford University

Suzuki, S. (2005, February 12). "Japanese Cyberpunk Anime and Techno-orientalism". Popularizing Asia Pacific Americas at UC Santa Cruz. Santa Cruz, CA, USA

Suzuki, S. (2005, April 9). "Posthuman Vision in Oshii Mamoru’s Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence". UC, Riverside graduate conference, (Dis)junction. Riverside, CA, USA

Suzuki, S. (2002, October 20). "Cyborg Agency: On Gibson's Neuromancer". Crisis Carnival at SDSU. Santa Cruz, CA, USA

Suzuki, S. (1999, March 25). "Magic Realism in Thomas Pynchon’s Vineland". Inter-university Conference. Tokyo, Japan

Other Scholarly Works

Reviews

Suzuki, S. (1970,January 1). A book review: Reframing Disability in Manga by Yoshiko Okuyama. The Journal of Japanese Studies. Society for Japanese Studies.

Suzuki, S. (2019,February 25). A Book Review on Hillary L. Chute Disater Drawn: Visual Witness, Comics and Documentary Form.. Tokyo,Japan: Manga Studies, The Japan Society for Studies in Cartoons and Comics..

Suzuki, S. (2012,January 8). Review of Manga Kamishibai: The Art of Japanese Paper Theater. By Eric Peter Nash. Mechademia. Minneapolis, MN,USA: Mechademia, University of Minnesota Press.

Suzuki, S. (2009,January 1). Nakazawa Keiji, Barefoot Gen: A Cartoon Story of Hiroshima. Thompson, Manitoba R8N 0A5,Canada: Socialist Studies: The Journal of the Society for Socialist Studies.

Suzuki, S. (2003,November 1). A Requiem for the Fall of the Petal: A Review on William Gibson’s Pattern Recognition. American Book Review.

Research Currently in Progess

Suzuki, S.(n.d.). Japanese Alternative Comics: Gekiga and The Mediascape of Counterculture. In Progress.