Anne Allison, Professor, Cultural Anthropology and Chair

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Anne Allison, Associated/Secondary Appointments

Professor, Cultural Anthropology and Chair

I will be on leave for the next academic year

Teaching (Spring 2010):

Ics 90bd.001, Intro to cultural anthro
White 107, MW 11:40 AM-12:30 PM
Ics 90bd.01d, Intro to cultural anthro
Carr 106, Th 10:05 AM-10:55 AM
Ics 90bd.02d, Intro to cultural anthro
Carr 106, Th 11:40 AM-12:30 PM
Ics 90bd.03d, Intro to cultural anthro
Bell dorm west 113, Th 01:15 PM-02:05 PM
Ics 90bd.04d, Intro to cultural anthro
Carr 125, Th 03:05 PM-03:55 PM
Ics 90bd.05d, Intro to cultural anthro
Carr 125, F 10:05 AM-10:55 AM
Ics 90bd.06d, Intro to cultural anthro
Bivins 114, F 11:40 AM-12:30 PM
Culanth 94d.001, Intro to cultural anthro Synopsis
White 107, MW 11:40 AM-12:30 PM
Culanth 94d.01d, Intro to cultural anthro Synopsis
Carr 106, Th 10:05 AM-10:55 AM
Culanth 94d.02d, Intro to cultural anthro Synopsis
Carr 106, Th 11:40 AM-12:30 PM
Culanth 94d.03d, Intro to cultural anthro Synopsis
Bell dorm west 113, Th 01:15 PM-02:05 PM
Culanth 94d.04d, Intro to cultural anthro Synopsis
Carr 125, Th 03:05 PM-03:55 PM
Culanth 94d.05d, Intro to cultural anthro Synopsis
Carr 125, F 10:05 AM-10:55 AM
Culanth 94d.06d, Intro to cultural anthro Synopsis
Bivins 114, F 11:40 AM-12:30 PM

Education:

Specialties:: Globalization of Culture
Mass Culture
Asia
Sexuality
Popular Culture
Political Economy
Gender
Culture Theory
Marxism

Research Interests:: Anne Allison (Ph.D. University of Chicago 1986) researches the ways in which desire seeps into, reconfirms, or reimagines socio-economic relations in various contexts in postwar Japan. Her first book, Nightwork: Sexuality, Pleasure, and Corporate Masculinity in a Tokyo Hostess Club (University of Chicago Press 1994) is a study of the Japanese corporate practice of entertaining white collar, male workers in the sexualized atmosphere of hostess clubs. Her second book, Permitted and Prohibited Desires: Mothers, Comics, and Censorship in Japan (Westview-HarperCollins 1996, re-released by University of California Press 2000) examines the intersection of motherhood, productivity, and mass-produced fantasies in contemporary Japan through essays on lunch-boxes, comics, censorship, and stories of mother-son incest. Her current research is on the recent popularization of Japanese children’s goods on the global marketplace and how its trends in cuteness, character merchandise, and high-tech play pals are remaking Japan’s place in today’s world of millennial capitalism.

Recent Publications (More Publications)

A. Allison. "American Geishas and Oriental/ist Fantasies." Media, Transnationalism, and Asian Erotics (July, Accepted, July, 2010).
A. Allison. ""Shakaisei no ima, kansei, kazoku, soshite nihon no kodomo" ("Sociality Today: Sentiment, Family, and Japanese Youth"." Kobougaku 4: Kibou no hajimari: ryuudookasuru sekaide: The Social Sciences of Hope, Volume 4: The Beginning of Hope: In a World of Flux Social Sciences of Hope: volume 44 (Summer, Summer, 2009): 129-149.
A. Allison. ""Pocket Capitalism and Virtual Intimacy: Pokemon as Symptom of Postindustrial Youth Culture." Figuring the Future: Youth and Globalization (Summer, Summer, 2009).
A. Allison. "The Cool Brand and Affective Activism of Japanese Youth." Theory, Culture & Society 26:3 (Spring, Spring, 2009).
A. Allison. ""The Attractions of the J-Wave for American Youth"." Soft Power Superpowers: Cultural and National Assets of Japan and the United States (Spring, Spring, 2009).