Amanda Kennell

Amanda Kennell is an Assistant Professor in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures and a Faculty Fellow at the Liu Institute for Asia and Asian Studies. She is the author of Alice in Japanese Wonderlands: Translation, Adaptation, Mediation (2023), which examines a wide variety of Japanese adaptations of Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland novels. Her work has been published by the British Museum, the International Journal of Comic Art, the Knight Letter, the Journal of Adaptation in Film & Performance, the Washington Post, and the Journal of Popular Culture, among others.

 

Her research focuses on the modern media environment, with a particular emphasis on new technologies and the popular media that blanket the average person's daily life. Her current research project focuses on how digital media affect the physical world, including as regards theme parks and archives, nuclear bomb fiction and historic materials, and media franchises' collaborations.

 

At Notre Dame, she offers courses on modern Japanese literature and media as well as detective fiction. Her premier course, Seeing Anime, helps viewers better understand the history and artistry of Japanese animation. She also co-hosts the Japanese Studies channel of the New Books Network of podcasts.