Faculty of Arts Asia Institute

Curriculum Vitae

Dr Carolyn Shannon Stevens

Japanese Studies


Professional Address

Asia Institute
The University of Melbourne
Victoria 3010, Australia

Tel: +61 3 8344 7582
Fax: +61 3 9349 4870
Email: css@unimelb.edu.au

Degrees, Qualifications

1995 Ph.D. (in Anthropology) Columbia University, U.S.A.
1991 Certificate of completion, Inter-University Center for Japanese Language Studies,Yokohama, Japan
1990 Certificate in East Asian Studies, East Asian Institute, Columbia University, U.S.A.
1986 AB (in Anthropology) Harvard College, magna cum laude

Committees, Memberships


Career, Principal Offices, Principal Positions Held

2004-2006 Head of Japanese, Asia Institute
2000- Senior Lecturer, Asia Institute
1998-1999 Lecturer, Asia Institute
1998 Visiting Fellow, Institute of International Studies, Meiji Gakuin University, Tokyo, Japan
Visiting Fellow, Department of Community Health, School of International Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tokyo, Japan
1996 Visiting Fellow, Institute of International Studies,
Meiji Gakuin University, Tokyo, Japan
1994-1997 Lecturer, Department of Japanese and Chinese, The University of Melbourne
1993-1994 Instructor, Obirin Junior College, Machida City, Tokyo, Japan
1992 Instructor, Sophia University Summer Session, Tokyo, Japan

Research Interests


Principal Publications

Sole-authored book

  1. Japanese Popular Music: culture, authenticity and power. London and New York, Routledge, 2008. (Media, Culture and Social Change in Asia Series).
  2. On the Margins of Japanese Society. London and New York: Routledge, 1997. (Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies Series).

Sole-authored chapter in books

  1. "Saved by the Love Song: Japanese Rock Fans, Memory and the Pursuit of Pleasure" in Japan at Play: The Ludic and the Logic of Power, Hendry & Raveri (eds.), London: Routledge, 2002, pp.99-114.
  2. "Bunkajinrui gaku kara mita zainichi gaikokujin no boshi hoken" [Anthropological Perspectives on Maternal and Child Health Care for Foreigners in Japan] in Zainichi gaikokujin no boshi hoken [Maternal and Child Health Care for Foreigners in Japan], Lee Setsuko, ed. Tokyo: Igaku Shoin, 1998, pp. 187-196.
  3. "Love Never Dies": Romance and Christian Symbolism in a Japanese Rock Video in Refashioning Pop Music in Asia: Cosmopolitan Flows, Political Tempos, and Aesthetic Industries, Allen Chun, Ned Rossiter and Brian Shoesmith, eds., Surrey: Curzon Press, 2004, pp.127 -143.
  4. Buying Intimacy: Proximity and Exchange at a Japanese Rock Concert in Fanning the Flames: Fandom & Consumer Culture in Contemporary Japan, William Kelly, ed. Albany: SUNY Press, 2004, pp. 59-78.
  5. 'I quit my job for a funeral': the Mourning and Empowering of a Japanese Rock Star in The Making of Saints: Contesting Sacred Ground, James F. Hopgood, ed. The University of Alabama Press, 2005.

Co-authored chapter in books

  1. (With Shuhei Hosokawa) "So Close and Yet So Far: Humanizing Celebrity in Japanese Music Television, 1960s - 1990s", Asian Media Productions, Brian Moeran ed., Surrey: Curzon Press, 2001 pp. 233-246.
  2. (With S. Lee) "Reproducing Identity: Maternal & Child Health Care for Foreigners in Japan", Family & Social Policy in Japan, R. Goodman (ed), 2002 Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 92-110.

Sole-authored articles

  1. "Day Laborers, Volunteers and the Welfare System in Contemporary Japan". Urban Anthropology and Studies of Cultural Systems and World Economic Development, 24(3-4), 1995, pp. 229-253.
  2. "Whose ettô is it anyway? New Year's activities in a Yokohama yoseba". American Asian Review, XIII(2), 1995, pp. 165-183.
  3. "Unsettled Migrant Mothers' Access to Public Health Care in Yokohama: A Case Study in Demographic Internationalization". nendo Forum Institute for International Studies Meiji Gakuin University, No. 3, 1996, pp. 28-39.
  4. "Rocking the Bomb: A Case Study in the Politicization of Popular Culture". Japanese Studies, 18(4), 1999, pp. 49-67.
  5. "Postmodern Aesthetics, Postwar Memory: When Politics and Popular
    Culture Collide", Meiji Gakuin University Annual Report of the Institute
    For International Studies    , No. 2, December 1999, pp. 93-104.
  6. Living with Disability in Urban Japan, Japanese Studies, 27(3), 2007b, pp. 263–278.
  7. Translations: "Internationalizing" Language and Music in Japan. Society for Linguistic Anthropology column, Anthropology News, 48(2), 2007b, p. 54.

Co-authored articles

  1. (With S. Lee and T. Sawada), "Undocumented Migrant, Maternal and Child Health Care in Yokohama", Japanese Studies, 20(1), 2000, pp. 49-65.
  2. (With S. Lee) "Kodomo no inochi ni kokkyô wa nai -- Mukokusekijôtai ni aru kodomo ni tsuite" [Children's lives have no boundaries: the condition of Stateless Children (in Japan)], Josanpuzasshi [Journal of Midwifery], 54 (8), pp. 50-57

Electronic Publications

  1. "Popular publishing" & "television"; entries for CD-ROM Voices & Visions from Japan Melbourne: Curriculum Corporation, 2003.
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