CURRICULUM VITAE

Education:

1984. College of Social Sciences, University of Tsukuba. Awarded the degree of B. Soc.

1987. Doctoral program in Sociology, University of Tsukuba. Awarded the degree of M. Soc.

1998. Ph. D. (Doctor of Sociology), University of Tsukuba. Work supervised by Prof. Y. Soeda

Full Employment History:

1988. Research Associate at the Institute of Philosophy and Thought, University of Tsukuba. 1989-1994. Research Associate at the Department of Sociology, Osaka City University, Faculty of Letters.

1995-1999. Lecturer of Sociology, Osaka City University, Faculty of Letters.

2000. Associate Professor of Sociology, Osaka City University, Faculty of Letters.

2001-2007. Associate Professor of Sociology, Osaka City University, Graduate School of Literature and Human Sciences.

2008-2021. Professor of Sociology, Osaka City University, Graduate School of Literature and Human Sciences.

2022. Professor of Sociology, Osaka Metropolitan University, Graduate School of Literature and Human Sciences.

Other Teaching & Research experience:

1993. Visiting Research Scholar, Centre for Critical and Cultural Theory, College of Cardiff, University of Wales, UK.

1998-1999. Visiting Research Fellow, International Research Center for Japanese Studies, Kyoto.

2001. Visiting Scholar, Communication Studies Department, Northeastern University, Boston MA., USA.

2005. Visiting Associate Professor, Graduate School, Kyoto University.

2012. Visiting Scholar, the communication and Media Research Institute of the University          of Westminster, London, UK.

Specialty:     Visual Sociology, Television Studies, Celebrity Studies.

Main Academic Works, Publication List:

Books, edited Books (written in Japanese):

2020. Basic Seminar; Media Studies, Sekai Shiso sya, co-edited with T. Okai

2013. Popular Culture Museum; collecting, sharing and consuming cultures, Minerva shobo,   co-edited with M. Murata & C. Yamanaka.

2007. Media Sociology of Post Korean Wave, Minerva shobo, co-edited with K. Kimura & C.  Yamanaka.

2003. Sociology in Quiz Culture, Sekai Shiso sya, co-edited with H. Ogawa. 

1998. Yomeisei to iu Bunka Sochi (Celebrity as Cultural apparatus), Tokyo: Keiso Sobo.

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Books, Articles (in English):

2016. ‘Construction of the public memory of the celebrity: Popular culture museum in Japan’ in P.  D. Marshall and Redmond S. eds., A Companion to Celebrity, Wiley-Blackwell. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118475089.ch8

2016. ‘About databases of early TV commercials: Examining representations in animated  commercials’, 7th International Scholarly Conference “Comicology: Probing Practical  Scholarship”, Kyoto International Manga Museum. (with K. Kono, translated) http://imrc.jp/images/upload/lecture/data/Ishida_Kono_ENG.pdf

2011. ‘Theoretical Keywords for Transnational Popular Cultures : Glocalization & Representation  of East Asian Women's Bodies’ in Asian Pop Culture Forum: New Korean Wave, Asia and  Beyond, Korean Women’s Association for Communication Studies.

2007. ‘Discourse on Korean Wave in Japan: The Trans-cultural Representation of the Other’ (in  Korean), Korean Cultural Law & Policy Review, 1.

2003.  ‘"Sacred Families" in Japanese Tabloid Television’, Urban Culture: Traditional and  Contemporary, vol.1, University of Gadjah Mada & Osaka City University, Urban  Culture research Center.

2002. ‘Media and Cultural Studies in Japanese Sociology: An Introduction’, International Journal  of Japanese Sociology, vol.11. https://doi.org/10.1111/1475-6781.00013

2000. ‘Television Genre and Audience: Quiz Shows in Japanese Television’ in Studies in the  Humanities, 52, Osaka City University, Faculty of Literature and Human Sciences. https://dlisv03.media.osaka-cu.ac.jp/il/meta_pub/G0000438repository_KJ00000268094

Books Translations:

2002. Yomeijin to Kenryoku (the Translated Book of P. D. Marshall's Celebrity and Power: Fame  in Contemporary Culture, University of Minnesota Press, 1997 into Japanese), Tokyo: Keiso  syobo.

1995. Sangyo ka ron Saiko (the Translated Book of H. Blumer's Industrialization as an Agent of  Social Change, Walter de Gruyter Inc., 1990 into Japanese), Tokyo: Keiso syobo (with Prof.  M. Katagiri, et al.).

1992. Epiphany no Syakaigaku, (the Translated Book of N. K. Denzin's Interpretive Interactionism,  Sage, 1989 into Japanese), McGraw Hill Japan, (with Prof. M. Katagiri, et al.).