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Yuriko Furuhata - Department Chair

Academic title(s): 

Professor

William Dawson Scholar of Cinema and Media History
Associate Member of the Department of Art History & Communication Studies

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Yuriko Furuhata - Department Chair
Contact Information
Address: 

680ÌýSherbrooke St West
Montreal, Quebec
H3A 2M7

Email address: 
yuriko.furuhata [at] mcgill.ca
Department: 
East Asian Studies
Office: 
266
Biography: 

Yuriko FuruhataÌýis Associate Professor and William Dawson Scholar of Cinema and Media History in the Department of East Asian Studies at ±«ÓãÖ±²¥. Her first book,ÌýCinema of Actuality: Japanese Avant-Garde Filmmaking in the Season of Image PoliticsÌý(Duke University Press, 2013), won the Best First Book Award from the Society of Cinema and Media Studies.ÌýHer second book,ÌýClimatic Media: Transpacific Experiments in Atmospheric ControlÌý(Duke University Press, 2022) explores the geopolitical conditions underpinning environmental art,Ìýweather control, digital computing, and cybernetic architecture in Japan and the United States.ÌýClimatic MediaÌýwon the 2022 Atmospheric Science Librarians International (ASLI) CHOICE Award in the category of interdisciplinary monograph. She is currently completingÌýa book, titledÌýVisual Grammars of Deep Time: Archipelagic Archives of the AnthropoceneÌý(under contract, Duke University Press), which examines scientific atlases, photographs, and films of fossils, clouds, snow crystals, and corals in relation to the settler colonial histories of geosciences in Japan, the Pacific, and North America. Her articles have appeared in a wide range of journals, includingÌýGrey Room, Representations, Public Culture, Media+Environment,ÌýandÌýScreen,Ìýand edited collections such asÌýScreen GenealogiesÌý(2019),ÌýMedia Theory in JapanÌý(2017),ÌýAnimating Film TheoryÌý(2014), among others.

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Area(s): 
Japan
Areas of expertise: 

Cinema and Media History

Research areas: 
Japanese Film and Media
Awards, honours, and fellowships: 

She is the author of Cinema of Actuality: Japanese Avant-Garde Filmmaking in the Season of Image Politics (Duke University Press, 2013), which won the Best First Book Award from the Society of Cinema and Media Studies.Ìý

Areas of interest: 

Research Interests:ÌýJapanese Film and Media Studies, Environmental Media Studies, Transpacific Studies, Avant-Garde ArtsÌýand Visual Culture, Architecture, History ofÌýScience and Technology and Continental Philosophy.

Group: 
Professor
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