Christophe Thounyトゥニ クリストフ

Education History /
Work Experience

Associate Professor, Ritsumeikan University, GLA (2019- )

Associate Professor, Kyushu University, Faculty of Languages and Cultures (2017-2019)

Adjunct Instructor, Waseda University (2013, 2016)

Project Assistant Professor, Tokyo University, Global Communication Research Centre (2012-2017)

Adjunct Instructor, New York University, East Asian Studies Department (2008-2011)

Ph.D. in East Asian Studies, Modern Japan (New York University, East Asian Studies Department, 2011)

M.A. in Japanese Studies, (McGill University, East Asian Studies, 2003)

B.A. in World History and Geography, specialization in European and Islamic Middle Ages (Lyon II University, Faculty of History, 1999)

Specialization /
Research Interests

Research keywords

urban studies, media studies, queer studies, Modern Japanese literature, Japanese visual culture, intellectual history, critical theory, ecocriticism

Specialization / Research Interests

My academic work focuses on Modern Japanese urban and popular culture in literature, media and urban studies. I engage from Japan with larger debates about environmentalism, queer studies and critical theory. I am now working on two research projects: planetary urbanization and planetary thought in postwar Japanese visual culture (film and animation); and an edited volume in English on the Japanese artist Terayama Shūji.