Caitlin is a PhD Candidate interested in topics of gender, labor, and media in modern and contemporary Japan. In her dissertation work, she examines figurations of female criminality in Japanese contexts, investigating connections between media representations of transgressive women and legal policy that attempts to structure women’s actualities. This is part of a larger exploration of the mediation and policing of self and being, transgressive and/or queer modalities.
Prior to joining the EALC Department at Penn, Caitlin earned her MA at the University of Michigan's Center for Japanese Studies and then lived in Tokyo for many years. There she worked in startup communities as well as in the Tokyo Office of the Social Science Research Council (SSRC), a non-profit organization that fosters innovative research. She also spent a year with the University of Tokyo's Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Information Studies as a research student.
She maintains broad interests in gender and sexuality, Japanese film and literature, queer and feminist discourse, media technologies and labor practices, and the role of scholarship in social activism.
MA, Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan (Ann Arbor)
BA, University of Findlay
Gender and Sexuality; Labor; Feminism(s); Queer Theory; Media, Film, Visual Culture; Social Media and Technology
- RELS 0790/CIMS 0790/EALC 1550: The Religion of Anime (Fall 2023)
- EALC 0020: Introduction to Chinese Civilization (Fall 2022)
- EALC 002: Introduction of Japanese Civilization (Spring 2022)
- EALC 151/CIMS 151/GSWS 257: Contemporary Japanese Fiction and Film (Spring 2021)
- EALC 152/GSWS 152: Love and Loss in Japanese Literary Traditions (Fall 2020)
- “Toji-awase Oden no kanabumi 綴合於伝仮名書 (The Binding of Oden’s Letters, ca.1879) Arthur Tress Collection of Japanese Illustrated Books, Kislak Center, University of Pennsylvania Libraries, March 2020. [Link]
Association of Asian Studies