Michele M. Mason is Associate Professor of Japanese Cultural Studies and Head of the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Maryland. Her research and teaching interests focus on modern Japanese colonial and postcolonial studies and feminist theory and masculinity studies. Mason also continues her engaged study of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, critical nuclear studies, and peace and nuclear abolition movements. She is the author of Dominant Narratives of Colonial Hokkaido and Imperial Japan: Envisioning the Periphery and Nation-State (2012) and co-editor, with Helen J.S. Lee, of Reading Colonial Japan: Text, Context, and Critique (2012). Her articles and chapters include “Seventeen’s Battle with the Cult of Masculinity: Reading Ōe Kenzaburō’s 1960 Rightist Resurgence in the Age of Abe,” “Writing Hiroshima and Nagasaki in the 21st Century: A New Generation of Historical Manga,” and “Bodies of Anger: Atomic Survivors in Nakazawa Keiji’s Black Series Manga” (in Rewriting History in Manga: Stories for the Nation, 2016). She also co-produced the short, award-winning documentary film, Witness to Hiroshima (director, Kathy Sloane).
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