Overview
Background
Lucy Fraser is a Senior Lecturer in Japanese at the School of Languages and Cultures, St Lucia campus, UQ. Her research interests include depictions of animal-human relationships in fiction, fairy tales and fairy tale retellings in Japanese and English, and ideas of gender--especially the figure of the girl--in contemporary Japanese literature, manga, film, and television. She is also interested in Japan-Australia literary and cultural connections, and editing and translation of literature and literary criticism.
Availability
- Dr Lucy Fraser is:
- Available for supervision
Fields of research
Qualifications
- Doctor of Philosophy, The University of Queensland
Research interests
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Fairy tales and fairy tale retellings
The way fairy tales metamorphose across time and space - what happens when these long-told narratives take new form, and what do these changes tell us?
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Gender in Japanese literature, manga, film, and television
Explorations of how gender is imagined and challenged in Japanese literature and popular culture
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Animals in fairy tales, literature, and popular culture
How are animals represented in Japanese and English, and how can fictional works affect real-life environmental attitudes and action?
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Contemporary Japanese literature
Authors writing in Japanese both within and outside of Japan; authors writing in English who identify or engage with Japan in meaningful ways
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Literary translation
The journeys of Japanese literature and popular culture into English
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Girl studies
The exploration of girls' literature and popular culture in Japanese and English, particularly its cross-cultural dimensions and connections
Research impacts
This research is engaged with why and how people consume fiction and fairy tales, reminding us that the process is more complex than simply "escape" or straightforward "identification" with particular characters. Current projects further explore the special communities and connections that girls' stories can create for their audiences, and the knowledge and positive attitudes that fictional depictions of animals can encourage.
Dr Fraser continues to publish translations of Japanese fiction, making literature and picture books available to readers outside of Japan.
Works
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2014
Journal Article
Reading and retelling girls across cultures: mermaid tales in Japanese and English
Fraser, Lucy (2014). Reading and retelling girls across cultures: mermaid tales in Japanese and English. Japan Forum, 26 (2), 246-264. doi: 10.1080/09555803.2014.900515
2014
Book Chapter
Where is my place in the world? Early shojo manga portrayals of lesbianism
Fujimoto, Yukari (original author) and Fraser, Lucy (translator) (2014). Where is my place in the world? Early shojo manga portrayals of lesbianism. Mechademia 9: Origins. (pp. 25-42) edited by Frenchy Lunning. Minneapolis, MN, United States: University of Minnesota Press.
2013
Journal Article
Lost property fairy tales: Ogawa Yoko and Higami Kumiko's transformations of "The Little Mermaid"
Fraser, Lucy (2013). Lost property fairy tales: Ogawa Yoko and Higami Kumiko's transformations of "The Little Mermaid". Marvels and Tales: Journal of Fairy-Tale Studies, 27 (2), 181-193.
2013
Other Outputs
Fairy tale transformations and gender: The Little Mermaid's metamorphoses in Japanese and English
Fraser, Lucy (2013). Fairy tale transformations and gender: The Little Mermaid's metamorphoses in Japanese and English. PhD Thesis, School of Languages and Comparative Cultural Studies, The University of Queensland.
2012
Journal Article
The destinations of "women's friendships": imperializing education in the women's classroom
Fraser, Lucy and Kayo, Takeuchi (2012). The destinations of "women's friendships": imperializing education in the women's classroom. U.S. - Japan Women's Journal, 43, 106-125.
2012
Journal Article
An unsuitable job for a girl: violence and the girl in two novels by Sakuraba Kazuki
Fraser, Lucy (2012). An unsuitable job for a girl: violence and the girl in two novels by Sakuraba Kazuki. Intersections: gender and sexuality in Asia and the Pacific (28), 1-12.
2012
Journal Article
Review of Noriko J. Horiguchi. Women adrift: the literature of japan’s imperial body. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2011
Fraser, Lucy (2012). Review of Noriko J. Horiguchi. Women adrift: the literature of japan’s imperial body. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2011. Asian Studies Review, 36 (4), 567-568. doi: 10.1080/10357823.2012.740919
2010
Journal Article
The invalidation of gender in girls' Manga today, with a special focus on Nodame Cantabile
Honda, Masuko, Fraser, Lucy (translator) and Aoyama, Tomoko (translator) (2010). The invalidation of gender in girls' Manga today, with a special focus on Nodame Cantabile. US Japan Women's Journal, 38, 12-24.
2010
Journal Article
An Interview with Sakumi Yoshino
King, Emerald and Fraser, Lucy (2010). An Interview with Sakumi Yoshino. U.S. - Japan Women's Journal, 38, 113-132.
2010
Journal Article
The metamorphosis of female desire: Contemporary Japanese imaginings of "The Little Mermaid"
Fraser, Lucy (2010). The metamorphosis of female desire: Contemporary Japanese imaginings of "The Little Mermaid". East Asia Forum, 13, 24-35.
2008
Journal Article
Gendered language in recent short stories by Japanese women, and in English translation
Fraser, Lucy (2008). Gendered language in recent short stories by Japanese women, and in English translation. New Voices, 2, 1-20.
2008
Other Outputs
Osaki Midori and the role of the girl in Showa modernism
Kawasaki, Kenko, Fraser, Lucy (Trans.) and Aoyama, Tomoko (Trans.) (2008). Osaki Midori and the role of the girl in Showa modernism. Asian Studies Review, 32 (3), 293-306. doi: 10.1080/10357820802299684
Funding
Past funding
Supervision
Availability
- Dr Lucy Fraser is:
- Available for supervision
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Supervision history
Current supervision
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Doctor Philosophy
Re-stitching the Tapestry: Modern retellings of myth and fairy tale as feminist discourse
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Karin Sellberg
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Doctor Philosophy
Funeral Parade of Lilies: Sentimentality and Liminality in Representations of Queer Women in Modern Japanese Literature
Principal Advisor
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Doctor Philosophy
The discourse of Perceived Discrimination in non-Japanese and mixed-race Japanese people in Japan
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Sol Rojas-Lizana
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Doctor Philosophy
Representations of the Modern Girl: A Comparative Study of the Turkish Modern Woman and the Japanese Moga in Literature and Media during the Interwar Years
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Akiko Uchiyama
Completed supervision
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2023
Doctor Philosophy
Narrating History: Literary Depictions of Japanese Prisoners of War in Australia
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Amy Hubbell
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2020
Doctor Philosophy
The Shifting Discourses of Japanese Gender Ideals in Three Novels by Murakami Haruki
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor David Chapman
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