Department of Modern Languages and Comparative Literature
Professor Shige (CJ) Suzuki (PhD, University of California Santa Cruz) is an Assistant Professor of Japanese language who specializes in Japanese and comparative literature, film, and popular culture. Dr. Suzuki teaches all levels of Japanese language as well as courses on Japanese literature, film, and culture.
Currently, he has two focused areas of research: one is a continuation of his dissertation research that is about Japanese speculative fiction in terms of posthumanism. Posthumanism is a body of critical and cultural discourse which questions what it means to be human in the pervasive condition of new media and technologies. His research examines Japanese postwar fiction in terms of its problematique of the imbrication of technology, the body, race/ethnicity, gender, and nationalism.
Dr. Suzuki has published several articles and book chapters both in Japanese and English, including "Manga/Comics Studies from the Perspective of SF Research: Genre, Transmedia, and Transnationalism," "A Carnivalesque Future: Nalo Hopkinson's Midnight Robber and Afrofuturism," and ""Human Bodies in the Information Society: On Wachowski brothers' The Matrix." Professor Suzuki also serves as coordinator of the Japanese program at Baruch College and advisor to students minoring in Japanese.
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