Researcher Database

（Last updated : 2025-08-22 16:07:30）　

MATSUSHIMA Aya

Department / Course College of Social Sciences Department of Social Sciences

Title / Position Professor

Other Affiliations
1.	Graduate School of Sociology
2.	Kinugasa Research Organization Creative Media Research Center

Academic background
1.	2008/08 Degree Acquisition	│ University of Iowa Ph.D
2.	1999/07 Degree Acquisition	│ University of New Mexico M.A.
3.	～2008/08	Doctorial Course │ Department of Communication Studies │ University of Iowa │ Completed
4.	～1999/07	Master Course │ Department of Communication and Journalism │ University of New Mexico │ Completed
5.	～1994/03	Department of English │ College of Literature │ Aoyama Gakuin University │ Graduated
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Business career
1.	2020/04/01 ～	Professor │ College of Social Sciences, │ Ritsumeikan University
2.	2017/04/01 ～ 2020/03/31	Associate Professor │ College of Social Sciences, │ Ritsumeikan University
3.	2014/04/01 ～ 2017/03/31	Associate Professor │ Faculty of Foreign Studies Department of English, │ Kumamoto Gakuen University
4.	2006/01 ～ 2014/01	Lecturer │ Department of East Asian Studies, │ New York University
5.	2004/09 ～ 2005/12	Lecturer │ Departmentof Film and Media Studies, │ University of California Santa Barbara
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Committee and society
1.	2023/04/30 ～	Global Media and China (Sage Journal) Reviewer
2.	2020/06 ～ 2024/06/02	Japan Communication Associtaion Secretary General
3.	2019/04	National Communication Association International and Intercultural Communication Division Reviewer
4.	2019/03	National Communication Association Great Ideas for Teaching Students Division Reviewer
5.	2015/06 ～ 2020/05	Japan Communication Association Deputy Secretary General

Research activities
1.		Japan Communication Association

Subject of research
1.	Communication Theory
2.	Visual Rhetoric
3.	Visual Communication
4.	Media Studies

Books
1.	2014	Children and Cultural Memory in Texts of Childhood ("A Japanese History Textbook and the Construction of World War II Memory" 担当) │ ,pp.67-85

Papers
1.	2017/03	Who is Silenced?: Anti-Korean Wave in Japan and Japanese National Identity │ 海外事情研究 │ 44 (1･2),pp.27-52
2.	2010/11	Book Reviews：Cultural Migrants from Japan: Youth, Media, and Migration in New York and Tokyo. By Fujita Yuiko │ Journal of Asian Studies │ 69 (4),pp.1242-1244

Academic conference presentation
1.	2025/07/24	Emergence of Anamorphic Rhetoric in the Renaissance: Representation of Soles of the Feet in Andrea Mantegna's “Lamentation of Christ” and Rembrandt's “The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Deijman”
2.	2019/11/14	Media, Social Media, and Representation: Cultural Mechanisms of Image Construction
3.	2018/11/11	The Rhetoric of Ritsumeikan University's Peace Museum: Can A Higher Educational Institution Speak for A Community?
4.	2018/11/10	The Intersection of Racism and Nationalism in Japan: A Case Study on Hate Speech Against Korean Residents in Japan
5.	2018/05/28	IN but OUT of Asia: Japan's Complex Self at the Conjunction of Nationalism and Racism
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Other research achievements
1.	2023/04/30 ～	Global Media and China (Sage Journal) Reviewer