OTA Nanako

オオタナナコ | OTA Nanako

Affiliation and department：
Job title： Post-doctoral Fellow

Research field (5)： Other , Linguistics , History - Japan , Literature - Japanese , Foreign language education

Research keywords (13)： interdisciplinary studies , discourse analysis , Critical Discourse Studies , radio broadcasting , media history , GHQ , NHK , Occupied Japan , literature during the Occupation period , Digital Archive , post-war reforms and women , voices of the unheard , History / English education using media

Research theme for competitive and other funds (9)：

2024 - 2028 Listening to Occupation History from the Public Voice: Rethinking “Opening of the Microphone” based on Multi-archival Research in Japan and the U.S.
2022 - 2024 A Japan-US Transwar History of Broadcasting: The Continuation of “Opening of the Microphone” and Its Impact on Japan's Pro-US Democratization
2023 - Grant for attending overseas academic conferences in 2023
2021 - 2022 Grant for the Academic Publication of Ph.D Thesis
2020 - 2022 The Japan-US transwar history of radio broadcasting

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Papers (18)：

Nanako OTA. Literature as Auditory-visual Media: Listening to the Radio Broadcasting of US-occupied Japan in Dazai Osamu’s Katei no Kofuku. Showa Literary Studies. 2024. 88. 55-70
Nanako OTA. English Education in the Midst of the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Case Study of the Introductory Seminar in English Linguistics “Reading/Discussing Current Events Embedded in Music”. Studies in Language Education, Seisen University. 2023. 15. 131-155
Nanako OTA. An Analysis of Inoue Hisashi's "Aoba Shigereru": Replacing the Labels on ×× or Not. Social Literature. 2023. 57. 61-74
Nanako OTA. An Application of Multimodal Critical Discourse Studies to English Education: Why and How Naomi Watanabe Controls and Empowers Students at Women's Universities in Japan. Bulletin of Seisen University. 2023. 70. 77-96
Nanako OTA. MIYAMOTO Yoshio "Hōsō to Kokubō-kokka (Broadcasting and National Defense State)": Toward ‘a Japan-US Transwar History of Broadcasting’. Media History. 2022. 52. 31-39

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MISC (7)：

Nanako OTA. Voices, Women, and I (My research, my writing). Bunen, Seisen University. 2023. 40. 90-94
Nanako OTA. The Author's Story on "Japanese Radio Broadcasting during the US Occupation and the 'Opening of the Microphone to the Public'". UTokyo BiblioPlaza【Speaking about my own work】. 2022
Nanako OTA. A Book to Read while Listening to the Radio: Digital Archive of "Japanese Radio Broadcasting during the US Occupation and the 'Opening of the Microphone to the Public'". Keio University Press note. 2022
Nanako OTA. Radio Broadcasting and Control over Freedom of Speech in Post-war Japan. The Za "Who Am I" (A theatre pamphlet of Komatsuza, Inoue Hisashi's theatre company). 2020. 105. 22-26
Nanako OTA. The Women Who Leapt through Time to Visit the NHK Broadcasting Museum. A blog entry of Intelligence, the Institute of 20th Century Media. 2020

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Books (4)：

Imagined Scenery and Literature in Post-imperial East Asia
2023 ISBN:9791159058325
Japanese Radio Broadcasting during the US Occupation and the “Opening of the Microphone to the Public”: Listening to the Controlling Voice, Discerning the Human-becoming Voice
Keio University Press 2022
Risk Communication: From a Discourse of Exclusion to a Dialogue of Coexistence
Akashi Publishing Company 2021
The Horizons of Online Classes: Practical Reports of the Academic Year 2020
Lion Academic Press 2021

Lectures and oral presentations (22)：

Media Archives: Challenges and Opportunities (Thinking Transnationally: Japanese Media Under US Occupation)
(74th Annual Conference of International Communication Association 2024)
A Media History of Women's Voices in Japan: Listening to 'Reciprocal Resilience' Generated from TBS Podcast "OVER THE SUN"
(2024 Spring Conference of Japan Association for Media, Journalism and Communication Studies 2024)
English Education in the Midst of the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Case Study of the Introductory Seminar in English Linguistics in 2022 “Reading/Discussing Current Events Embedded in Music”
(Faculty Development Meeting at Seisen University 2023)
Examining Democracy Past and Present: A Case Study of Japanese Radio History Research Utilizing NHK Archives
(IAMHIST (International Association for Media and History) Conference 2023 “FUTURE [of] ARCHIVES” 2023)
The thing more important than English in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic
(English Education in the University of Tokyo Now and in the Future hosted by Center for Global Communication Strategies 2023)

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Works (2)：

Digital Archive of Japanese Radio Broadcasting during the US Occupation and the “Opening of the Microphone to the Public”
Nanako OTA 2022 -
Listener Correspondence Database of Occupied Japan
Nanako OTA 2022 -

Education (5)：

2017 - 2020 College of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo Language and Information Sciences Doctoral Program
2015 - 2017 College of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo Language and Information Sciences Master's Program
2009 - 2013 Wheaton College (in MA) Anthropology
2012 - 2012 The University of Edinburgh (exchange student program)
2011 - 2011 Royal Thimphu College in Bhutan (exchange student program)

Professional career (3)：

Bachelor of Arts (Wheaton College (in MA))
Master of Arts (Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, the University of Tokyo)
Ph.D. (Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, the University of Tokyo)

Work history (6)：

2024/04 - 現在 The University of Tokyo Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Language and Information Sciences Post-doctoral Fellow
2021/04 - 現在 The University of Tokyo Department of English Language, College of Arts and Sciences Part-time Lecturer
2022/04 - 2024/03 Seisen University Faculty of Literature Department of English Language and Literature Assistant Professor
2020/04 - 2022/03 Toyo University Faculty of Literature Department of English and American Literature Part-time Lecturer
2020/04 - 2022/03 Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Research Fellowship for Young Scientist (PD)

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Committee career (3)：

2023/08 - 現在 Broadcasting Committee of Japan Association for Media, Journalism and Communication Studies Member
2023/04 - 2024/03 Committee of People/Languages Forum Member
2020/04 - 2021/03 The editorial board of the Institute of 20th Century Media Member

Awards (7)：

2023/06 - Japan Association for Media, Journalism and Communication Studies The 9th Uchikawa Yoshimi Memorial Prize
2023/04 - Seisen University Best teaching award in the second semester 2022
2021/04 - The University of Tokyo The 2nd Jiritsu Award for Early Career Academics (Grant for Academic Publications)
2020/05 - Japan Association for Media, Journalism and Communication Studies The 9th Best Paper Award An Analysis of the Truth Box: Focusing on How the Radio inOccupied Japan Established a Relationship Between the Emperorand the Japanese Public
2017/03 - Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, the University of Tokyo Ichiko Memorial Award (Best Master's Thesis Award)

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Association Membership(s) (9)：

International Communication Association , International Association for Media and History , Association for Showa Literary Studies , Association of the Emperor Symbol System , Association for Japanese Social Literature , People/Languages Forum , Media History Association , Japan Association for Media, Journalism and Communication Studies , The Pragmatics Society of Japan

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