Susan J. Napier Explained

Susan Jolliffe Napier (; born October 1955) is a professor of the Japanese program at Tufts University. She was formerly the Mitsubishi Professor of Japanese Literature and Culture at the University of Texas at Austin. She also worked as a visiting professor in the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University, and in cinema and media studies at University of Pennsylvania. Napier is an anime and manga critic.

Biography

Susan Jolliffe Phelps was born in October 1955, the daughter of Reginald H. Phelps (1909–2006), a historian and educational administrator, and Julia Phelps (;).^{[1] [2]} She was raised in Cambridge, Massachusetts,^[3] graduated from Radcliffe College, and obtained her A.B., A.M., and PhD degrees from Harvard University. She married Ron Wells Napier on August 20, 1977, at King's Chapel,^[4] and their daughter, Julia Diana Napier, was born on December 29, 1989.^[5] Napier taught Japanese and video at the University of Texas at Austin, and began working at a university in New York around 1985.^[6]

In 1991, Napier published Escape from the Wasteland: Romanticism and Realism in the Fiction of Mishima Yukio and Oe Kenzaburo. Her second book, The Fantastic in Modern Japanese Literature: The Subversion of Modernity, followed in 1996.^[7] Napier first became interested in anime and manga when a student showed her a copy of Akira. Napier then saw the film, which led to the creation of her third book, ,^{[8] [9]} which was revised in 2005.^[10] Napier's was published in 2007, which discusses anime fandom in greater depth.^{[11] [12]}

Napier met her husband, Steve Coit, the year she started researching her book , which was released eight years later in 2018.

Works

• Book: Napier, Susan J. . 3 . The Fantastic in Modern Japanese Literature: The Subversion of Modernity . London . Routledge . 1996 . 272 . 978-0-415-12458-4 . none .
• Book: Napier, Susan J. . 3 . The Worlds of Japanese Popular Culture: Gender, Shifting Boundaries and Global Culture . The Worlds of Japanese Popular Culture . Martinez, Dolores P . 1998 . Cambridge University Press . 0-521-63128-9 . Vampires, Psychic Girls, Flying Women and Sailor Scouts . registration . https://archive.org/details/worldsofjapanese0000unse . none .
• Book: Napier, Susan J. . 3 . . Palgrave Macmillan . 2001 . 311 . 978-0-3122-3863-6 . none .
• 10.1215/10679847-9-2-467. Confronting Master Narratives: History As Vision in Miyazaki Hayao's Cinema of De-assurance. 2001. Napier . Susan J. . 3 . Positions: East Asia Cultures Critique. 9. 2. 467–493. 144130648 . none .
• Book: Napier, Susan J. . 3 . Meet Me on the Other Side: Strategies of Otherness in Modern Japanese literature . 38–55 . 2006 . Routledge. London . 978-0-415-36185-9 . none .
• Book: Napier, Susan J. . 3 . Cinema Anime: Critical Engagements with Japanese Animation . https://archive.org/details/cinemaanimecriti00brow . registration . Brown, Steven T . 2006 . Palgrave Macmillan . 978-1-4039-8308-4 . 'Excuse Me, Who Are You?': Performance, the Gaze, and the Female in the Works of Kon Satoshi . none .
• Book: Napier, Susan J. . 3 . Robot Ghosts and Wired Dreams: Japanese Science Fiction from Origins to Anime . University of Minnesota Press . 2007 . 269 . 978-0-8166-4973-0 . When the Machine Stops: Fantasy, Reality, and Terminal Identity in Neon Genesis Evangelion and Serial Experiments: Lain . none .
• Book: Napier, Susan J. . 3 . From Impressionism to Anime: Japan as Fantasy and Fan Cult in the Mind of the West. March 11, 2008 . Palgrave Macmillan . 978-1-4039-6214-0 . 272 . none .
• Book: Napier, Susan J.. . 3 . Yale University Press. 2018. 978-0-300-22685-0. 344.

External links

• Tufts faculty guide
  • Napier's review of Princess Mononoke at Nausicaa.net
• Palgrave Macmillan author profile

Notes and References

1. Web site: Reginald Phelps Obituary . 16 . . . . September 30, 2006 . September 5, 2024 .
2. Sunday Services . . . . October 15, 1955 . .
3. Web site: Don't Call Them Cartoons . 1 . Cohen . Georgiana . . April 30, 2007 . September 5, 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20130416023116/http://www.tufts.edu/home/feature/?p=napier . April 16, 2013 .
4. Weddings . . Boston, Massachusetts . August 21, 1977 . 62 . .
5. Banking house promotes Napier to London post . . . . February 24, 1990 . 7 . .
6. Ron Napier on Wall Street . . . . 6 . July 19, 1985 . .
7. Web site: Susan J. Napier . . September 5, 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110117174134/http://ase.tufts.edu/faculty-guide/fac/snapie01.gerrusasia.htm . January 17, 2011 .
8. Web site: Anime Lecture at MIT. May 1, 2001. Anime News Network. November 27, 2009.
9. Web site: An Anime Explosion. Gerrow. Robin. 2004. University of Texas at Austin. November 28, 2009. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20091013232114/http://www.utexas.edu/features/archive/2004/anime.html. October 13, 2009.
10. Web site: Anime from Akira to Howl's Moving Castle . . September 5, 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20051230191514/http://www.palgrave-usa.com/catalog/product.aspx?isbn=1403970521 . December 30, 2005 .
11. Web site: Susan Napier presents new book on American anime fans. March 30, 2007. Anime News Network. November 27, 2009.
12. Review: Napier, Susan J.: From Impressionism to Anime: Japan as Fantasy and Fan Cult in the Mind of the West. New York and Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan (2007) . Denison . Rayna . Participations: Journal of Audience and Reception Studies . 6 . 2 . November 2009 . 437–439 .