MICRO-BIO

• I am a first year PhD student at the University of Sheffield, UK, researching the history and sociocultural context of the portrayal of "adolesence" in Japanese idol pop music. I aim to analyse the production and consumption of popular music, as wel...More

  I am a first year PhD student at the University of Sheffield, UK, researching the history and sociocultural context of the portrayal of "adolesence" in Japanese idol pop music. I aim to analyse the production and consumption of popular music, as well as the discourses within the musical "products" themselves to better understand how representations of identity, particularly national and class identity, are reproduced within popular music.

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EXPERIENCE

• University of Sheffield

  • PhD Student
  • School of East Asian Studies
  • Present

EDUCATION

• University of Sheffield

  • MA Contemporary Japan
  • September 2017 to September 2018

• University of Oxford

  • BA Oriental Studies (Japanese)
  • October 2013 to June 2017

Interests

• Media Studies

• Cultural Studies

• Discourse Analysis

• Popular Music

• Japan

Links

• Departmental profile
• Twitter account