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Professor, Cultural AnthropologyI will be on leave for the next academic year
| Office Location: | 107 Social Sciences | | Office Phone: | +1 919 681 6257 | | Email Address: | 
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Education:
- Ph.D. University of Chicago 1986
- M.A. University of Chicago 1979
- B.A. University of Illinois, Chicago Circle 1975
- Specialties:
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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.
- Curriculum Vitae
Recent Publications (More Publications)
- A. Allison. "American Geishas and Oriental/ist Fantasies." Media, Transnationalism, and Asian Erotics (Spring,
Accepted, Spring, 2008).
- A. Allison. "Mobile Dreamworlds and Virtual Intimacy: Pokemon as Symptom of Postindustrial Youth Culture." Mechademia Emerging Worlds of Anime and Manga1:1 (November,
Accepted, November, 2006): 11-22.
- A. Allison. "New-Age Fetishes, Monsters, and Friends: Pokemon in an Age of Millennial Capitalism." Japan After Japan: Social and Cultural Life from the Recessionary 1990s to the Present (Fall,
Fall, 2006).
- A. Allison. "The Japan Fad in Global Youth Culture and Millennial Capitalism." Mechademia Emerging Worlds of Anime and Manga1:1 (2006): 11-22.
- A. Allison, "Tsukiji: The Fish Market at the Center of the World by Theodore Bestor". Monumenta Nipponica 60:2 (Summer, Summer, 2005): 288-290.
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