About

https://researchmap.jp/cmmhotes/

Contact:
cathy (at) nishikata-eiga.com

I am a Canadian academic specialising in Film and Visual Culture.  My areas of interest include animation, documentary film, national cinemas, literary studies, postcolonialism, adaptation, feminism, minority cultures, LGBTQ+ cultures, disability culture, & SDGS. I have taught in Canada, the United Kingdom, Germany and Japan.  

This blog began in 2006 while I teaching a course on the relationship between Japanese and Western cinema at Kanagawa University and I named it after the cosy corner of Bunkyo-ku where I was living. What began as a chronicle of whatever I happened to find at the video store transformed into a journey into the world of Japanese Independent Animation upon the discovery of an exhibition of the work of Tomoyasu Murata in a tiny gallery on Hongo Dori. 

While living in Germany from 2007 until 2019 I developed a close relationship with Nippon Connection, the largest Japanese film festival in the world.  I have been a curator for their short animation selection since 2011.

I now live in Yokohama and am a visiting professor at Keio University SFC teaching Ecocriticism and Popular Culture in affiliation with Professor Ichinose's Lab. I am also a lecturer in the Faculty of Global and Interdisciplinary Studies at Hosei University 

Thank you for dropping by,

Cathy

Catherine Munroe Hotes, PhD. in Film and Visual Culture (Exeter, UK)

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