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About Amanda Kennell
Amanda Kennell is an Assistant Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Notre Dame who researches modern Japanese media like anime and manga. Her book about Japanese adaptations of Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland novels, "Alice in Japanese Wonderlands: Translation, Adaptation, Mediation" is now available from the University of Hawai'i Press. She is currently working on the relationship between media and the environment.
Amanda Kennell is an Assistant Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Notre Dame who researches modern Japanese media like anime and manga. Her book, Alice in Japanese Wonderlands, is out now.
NBN Episodes hosted by Amanda:
March 18, 2026
Supernatural Japan
Supernatural Japan: Izumi Kyoka and the Global Fantastic (U Michigan Press, 2026)examines the role of Japanese writer Izumi Kyōka (1873–1939) in the …
November 22, 2023
Manga, Murder and Mystery
Little is known about the boy detective in Japanese detective fiction despite his popularity. Who is he, and what mysteries does he unveil about cultu…
April 4, 2023
Cosplay
Cosplay, a portmanteau of “costume” and “play,” emerged from geeky Japanese subcultures to become a popular hobby, and even profession, around the wor…
December 25, 2022
The Pleasures of Metamorphosis
“The Little Mermaid” has become popular around the world since the Danish author Hans Christian Andersen published it almost two centuries ago. Lucy …
September 27, 2022
Talk to My Back
Manga historian Ryan Holmberg introduces the influential alternative manga artist Murasaki Yamada (1948-2009) to English readers through a scholarly t…
May 31, 2022
Celestial Empire
Chinese science fiction has been booming lately through the translation of books like Liu Cixin’s The Three-Body Problem, but where did the current su…
February 23, 2022
Shakespeare and East Asia
Shakespeare’s plays enjoy a great deal of popularity across the world, yet most of us study Shakespeare's local productions and scholarship. Shakespea…
January 28, 2022
Yayoi Kusama
Midori Yamamura’s Yayoi Kusama: Inventing the Singular (MIT Press, 2015) is an in-depth examination of the famed artist’s early years in Japan and the…
December 16, 2021
Anime
Rayna Denison’s Anime: A Critical Introduction (Bloomsbury, 2015) uses genre as a window into the evolving global phenomenon of Japanese animation. D…