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Dr. des. Eriko Ogihara-Schuck Foto von Dr. des. Eriko Ogihara-Schuck

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Eriko Ogihara was born and spent her childhood in Japan, but has lived half of her life abroad. After graduating from Singapore American High School, she studied  American Literature and Culture at the University of Tsukuba, Japan, where she earned B.A. in Literature and M.A. in Education. Later she continued her study at the University of Iowa, U.S.A. and received M.A. in American Studies.

In 2005 she enrolled as a doctoral student in Institute for British and American Studies at the TU Dortmund. Since 2006 she has simultaneously been an assistant lecturer for American Studies, and for Japanese at the Language Center of the TU Dortmund.

 

Stipendien und Auszeichnungen Scholarships and Awards

  • Dissertation Scholarship (TU Dortmund University), October 2007 – September 2010.

  • DAAD Support Scholarship, July 2007 – September 2007.

  • Matsushita International Foundation Research Grant, October 2006 – September 2007.

  • DAAD Support Scholarship, October 2006 – February 2007.

  • Baxter Travel Award (American Studies Association), November 2001.

  • Alexander Kern Travel Award (University of Iowa), November 2001.

  • Multi-Year Rotary Ambassadorial Scholarship, August 2000 – July 2003.

  • Departmental Fellowship (University of Iowa, American Studies), August 2000 – May 2001.

  • Fulbright Travel Grant (Fulbright Student, August 2000 – May 2005), August 2000 and July 2005.

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Forschungsgebiete Research Interests

  • American Studies, Trilateral (U.S.A., Germany and Japan) Comparative Studies of 20th-century Popular Culture and Religion

  • Reception Studies, Cultural Politics of Translation

  • Animations and Comics

  • 19th-Century American Literature and Schoolbooks

  • Aging Studies

 

Forschungsprojekt Research Project

  • Dissertation: “Anime as a Medium of Inter-Religious Dialogue: American and German Receptions of Animism through Hayao Miyazaki’s Films” (manuscript in progress at McFarland Publishers)

  • Habilitation: Cultural Representation of Aging from the 19th Century to the Present

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Publikationen Publications

“‘Estranged Religion’ in Anime: American and German Translations of Hayao Miyazaki’s Spirited Away.” Religion in the United States. Eds. Jeanne Cortiel, Kornelia Freitag, Christine Gerhardt and Michael Wall. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag WINTER Heidelberg, 2011.

“The Christianizing of Animism in Manga and Anime: American Translations of Hayao Miyazaki's Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind.” Graven Images. Eds. Christine Hoff Kraemer and A. David Lewis. New York: Continuum, 2010.

“Golden Peril?: Monetary Representations of Asians in 20th Century Detective Fiction.” 2008 Conference Volume of the Austrian Association for American Studies. Eds. Heinz Tschachler, Eugen Banauch and Simone Puff. Vienna: Lit, 2010.

“Astronaut.” Women in American History: An Encyclopedia. Ed. Hasia R. Diner. New York: Facts On File, 2010.

“International Kindergarten Union.” Women in American History: An Encyclopedia. Ed. Hasia R. Diner. New York: Facts On File, 2010.

“Japanese American Women.” Women in American History: An Encyclopedia. Ed. Hasia R. Diner. New York: Facts On File, 2010.

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Vorträge Presentations

“Anime und Animismus." Japan im Westen: Literatur - Kultur - Spiritualität. Radolfzell, Germany, April 2012.

“Hayao Miyazaki: Filmsonntag für die ganze Familie." Animismus Programm am Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany, April 2012.

“From Cane to Chair: Peter Parley and Aging Politics in Nineteenth-Century America.” The Conference of the European Association for American Studies, Izmir, Turkey, April 2012.

“The Schoolbook as 19th Century Transnational Popular Culture: Constructing Japanese National Identity through Peter Parley's Universal History.” The 58th Annual Conference of the German Association for American Studies, Regensburg, Germany, June 2011.

“Hip Hop in Unexpected Places: The Ainu Rebels' Construction of Ethnic Identity in Japan.” Hip Hop im Revier, Dortmund, Germany, July 2010.

“Amerikanische und deutsche Begegnungen mit dem ‘japanischen Animismus’: Ein interkultureller Vergleich der christlichen Rezensionen von Miyazaki Hayaos Film Chihiros Reise ins Zauberland.” Arbeitskreis Japanische Religionen der Universität Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany, May 2010.

“Openness as an Intersection of Anime and Animism.” The Bochum and Dortmund American Studies Dissertation Colloquium, Dortmund, Germany, January 2010.

“From Kami to Magic: The Christianizing of Fantasy through English Translations of Hayao Miyazaki's Films.” The Bochum and Dortmund American Studies Dissertation Colloquium, Dortmund, Germany, January 2009.

“Miyazaki Hayao und japanische Zivilreligion.” Mittagsforum der Ruhr-Universität Bochum Fakultät für Ostasienwissenschaften, Bochum, Germany, January 2009.

“Golden Peril?: Monetary Representations of Asians in 1960s American Popular Culture.” 35th International Conference of the Austrian Association for American Studies, Klagenfurt, Austria, October 2008.

 “Politics of Clarification in an Inter-Religious Dialogue: American Film Critics’ Construction of Japanese Animism.”  The 54th Annual Conference of the German Association for American Studies, Bochum, Germany, May 2007.

“Anime as a Medium of Inter-religious Dialogue: American and German Receptions of Japanese Animism through Miyazaki Hayao’s Spirited Away.” Kinema Club VIII at Nippon Connection, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, April 2007.  

 “Die Welt der Synchronisation: Das deutsche Dialogbuch von Spirited Away” (The World of Dubbing: The German Script of Spirited Away). Doctoral Students’ Colloquium, Dortmund, Germany, February 2007. 

 “Shinto in christlichen Kulturen: Amerikanische und Deutsche Rezeptionen des japanischen Animismus” (Shinto in Christian Cultures: American and German Receptions of Japanese Animism). Postgraduate Forum of the German Association for American Studies, Chemnitz, Germany, November 2006.

“American, German and Austrian Receptions of Japanese Animism.” Postgraduate Forum of the German Association for American Studies, Dortmund, Germany, October 2005.

 “Translation as a Cultural Work: Japanese Reception of American World History in the Nineteenth Century.” Mid-American American Studies Association, Iowa City, U.S.A., April 2003.

“Roundtable on International Students in American Studies.” American Studies Association, Washington D.C., November 2001.

 “Hawthorne no Oceania: Parley Bankokushi ni okeru Sekaishi no Saikōchiku” (Hawthorne’s Oceania: Reconstruction of World History in Peter Parley’s Universal History). The 72nd English Literary Society of Japan’s Conference, Tokyo, Japan, May 2000.

“American History Orientalized: Peter Parley in Japan.” Third Biennial Conference on Modern Critical Approaches to Children’s Literature, Tennessee, U.S.A., March 1999.

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Lehrveranstaltungen Courses

WS 2012/13: Introduction to American Literary and Cultural Studies (PS).

WS 2012/13: From the Revolutionary War to the Present: American War Literature and Film (HS).

SS 2012: Introduction to American Literary and Cultural History (PS).

SS 2012: Growing Old in the 20th and the 21st Centuries: Transnational Perspectives on the Culture of Aging (PS).

WS 2011/12: Introduction to American Literary and Cultural Studies (PS).

WS 2011/12: Growing Old in the 20th and the 21st Centuries: Transnational Perspectives on the Culture of Aging (HS).

WS 2010/11: Introduction to American Literary and Cultural Studies (PS).

SS 2010: Introduction to American Cultural and Literary History (PS).

WS 2009/10: Introduction to American Literary and Cultural Studies (PS).

SS 2009: Introduction to American Cultural and Literary History (PS).

WS 2008/09: Introduction to American Literary and Cultural Studies (PS).

SS 2008: Introduction to American Cultural and Literary History (PS).

WS 2007/08: Introduction to American Literary and Cultural Studies (PS).

WS & SS 2006/07: Religious Culture in the United States (PS).

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