Dale Joshua Paul

ディルジョシュアポール | Dale Joshua Paul

Affiliation and department：
Homepage URL (1)： https://www.cutestudies.org

Research field (1)： Literature - British/English-language

Research keywords (2)： Cute Studies , Cuteness Studies

Research theme for competitive and other funds (2)：

2025 - 2028 The Kawaii and Cute Aesthetics in Contemporary Western Art and Culture: Identity, the Environment, and Digital Futures
2020 - 2024 The Everyday Aesthetics of American Cute and Japanese Kawaii: Historical Development and Contemporary Expressions

Papers (17)：

Dale, Joshua Paul. The development of the American cute aesthetic with reference to Japanese kawaii. Japanese Psychological Review. 2025. 66. 3. 312-325
Hiroshi Nittono, Shiri Lieber-Milo, Joshua P. Dale. Cross-Cultural Comparisons of the Cute and Related Concepts in Japan, the United States, and Israel. SAGE Open. 2021. 11. 1. 215824402098873-215824402098873
Joshua Paul Dale. Cuteness Studies and Japan. The Routledge Companion to Gender and Japanese Culture. 2020. 320-330
Joshua Paul Dale. The Appeal of the Cute Object: Desire, Domestication, and Agency. The Aesthetics and Affects of Cuteness. 2017. 35-55
DALE Joshua Paul. Cute Studies: An Emerging Field. East Asian Journal of Popular Culture. 2016. 2. 1

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MISC (4)：

DALE Joshua Paul. “Always Exoticize!” Cyborg Identities and the Challenge of the Nonhuman. Mechademia. 2008. 3. 268-271
“Ethics and the Exo-sexual: The Real M. Butterfly Stands Up”. -
“’Sex is Worth Dying For:’ Annabel Chong, the Interrogation of Identity and the Ethics of Sacrifice”. -
"The Dance of Darkness: A Cross-Cultural Journey". -

Books (14)：

Cute Cat-alogue (Somerset House CUTE Exhibition Catalogue)
Somerset House Trust 2024 ISBN:9781739495114
Irresistible: How Cuteness Wired our Brains and Conquered the World
Profile Books Ltd 2023 ISBN:1788162382
Rachel Maclean
Hatje Cantz,Kunsthalle zu Kiel 2020 ISBN:9783775747165
The Routledge companion to gender and Japanese culture
Routledge 2020 ISBN:9781138895201
The Aesthetics and Affects of Cuteness: Eds. Dale, Joshua Paul; Goggin, Joyce; Leyda, Julia; McIntyre, Anthony P.; Negra, Diane
Routledge 2017

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Lectures and oral presentations (61)：

Cute Studies: Researching the affective and aesthetic dimensions of a global phenomenon
(University of Chicago Invited Lecture 2026)
Labubus, lafufus, and Hello Kitty: How cuteness conquered the internet
(Podcast appearance - Endless Thread 2025)
Emotional Machines and Kawaii Technology: How Cuteness Impacts the Experience of Social Robots
(Kyoto Arts and Media Conference (KAMC2025) 2025)
The Power of Cute: Kawaii Aesthetics and Emotional Culture in Japan and Beyond
(2025 AIPPI World Congress 2025)
Podcast: "'Oh how sweet' - What cuteness does to us"
(2025)

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Works (17)：

Why Cuteness Needs to be Studied (video)
Joshua Paul Dale, Yukiko Toda 2023 - 現在
Daily Cuts - The Labubu frenzy: When a cuteness overload goes into overdrive
Andrea Heng, Hairianto Diman 2024 -
Why Hello Kitty is still so popular, 50 years on - CBC Radio, Canada
Gloria Macarenko 2024 -
Interview about Hello Kitty on "East Asia Tonight," CNA Singapore TV
Otelli Edwards 2024 -
Cute Conduits: Diving Deep into the Adorable
2024 -

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Education (3)：

Professional career (1)：

Work history (7)：

2022/09 - 現在 Chuo University Faculty of Letters Professor
1995/04 - 2022/08 Tokyo Gakugei University Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures
2016/04 - 2018/03 Sophia University English Department Adjunct Professor
2006/04 - 2008/03 University of Tokyo English Department Adjunct Professor
1985/04 - 2000/03 Rikkyo University English Department Adjunct Professor

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Association Membership(s) (2)：

American Literature Society of Japan , Performance Studies International

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