Christine Marran
Christine Marran is a professor of Asian Languages and Literatures at the University of Minnesota, where she specializes in modern Japanese culture and literature with an emphasis on gender, sexuality, and identity in print and film culture. Some of her recent publications include Poison Woman: Figuring Female Transgression in Modern Japanese Culture (2007), So Bad She's Good: The Masochist's Heroine in Japan (2005), and "From Pathography to Pulp: Popular Expressions of Female Deviancy, 1930-1950" in A Century of Popular Culture in Japan (2000).
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