Christine Marran
· Professor _On leave Fall 2025_University of Minnesota · Korean Studies
Active 1995–2023
About
Professor Christine Marran is a faculty member in the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Minnesota, specializing in Japanese Literature and Cultural Studies within the Asian & Middle Eastern Studies department. Her research focuses on Japanese culture and the environment, with a particular interest in how cultural ideas influence environmental thinking. She has authored two books with the University of Minnesota Press, including 'Poison Woman: Figuring the Transgressive Woman in Modern Japanese Literature,' which explores the icon of the 'poison woman' and its implications for women's sexuality and societal roles, and 'Ecology Without Culture: Aesthetics for a Toxic Age,' which critiques the role of culture in environmental issues and introduces concepts such as the 'biotrope,' 'ethnic environmentalism,' and 'obligatory storytelling.' Her work emphasizes a new materialist approach to ecocriticism, advocating for a critical stance on cultural exceptionalism to better account for the more-than-human world. Marran has contributed extensively to the fields of ecocriticism, Japanese literature and cinema, and critical theory, publishing numerous articles on environmental issues in literary and visual culture. She is currently working on a book titled 'First Person Animal,' which examines the roles of animal figures in Asian decolonial cinema and literature, and she has been involved in projects exploring Japanese culture and environmental issues, including a creative nonfiction book about a sake-brewing family affected by the Fukushima radiation fallout.
Awards & honors
- Research Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study, Univers…
- Center for East Asian Studies, MacMillan Center, Yale, 2022-…
- Fellow at Cornell University Society for the Humanities, Fal…
- Research Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study, Univers…
- Research Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study, Univers…
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