Judit Kroo
Asst Professor, Modern Japanese Linguistics and Comparative Cultural Studies,
School of International Letters and Cultures
Other ASU affiliations
Senior Global Futures Scientist,
Global Futures Scientists and Scholars
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851 S Cady Mall Tempe, AZ 85287
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Mail code: 0202Campus: Tempe
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Long Bio
Kroo's research analyzes the (im)possibilities of world making, community, and citizenship under conditions of disaster. It asks how communities form or reform after or in a disaster, such as the nuclear disaster in Fukushima, Japan. How do disaster spaces become sites for imagining different futures, how can they function as creative spaces, and how do they call into question taken for granted assumptions about language in the social world?
Education
Ph.D., Stanford University, 2017
M.St., Oxford University, 2011
Research Interests
Japanese, Korean, Micropolitics, Interactional Semiosis, Youth, Climate Activism
Publications
Books
- (2021). As Co-Editor w. Kyoko Satoh, Linguistic Tactics and Strategies of Marginalization in Japanese. Palgrave Macmillan.
- (Current Book Project). A Life More Ordinary: Post-Neoliberalism and the Quest for the Personal in Contemporary Japan and Korea.
Journal Articles
- (Forthcoming). Debating otherwheres: Enregisterment, Okinawa and the ideology of dialect.
- (Forthcoming). Disaster dreamland: The spatiotemporality of post-disaster Fukushima communities. Anthropology News.
- (2023). Ya sekki ‘Hey dude!’: affective stance and the mediatized use of Korean second person address markers. East Asian Pragmatics.
- (2023). Remaking futsuu 'ordinary' in the discourse of younger Japanese adults. Language and Communication.
- (2022). With Ilana Gershon. New Media and Labor. Oxford Encyclopedia of Anthropology.
- (2022). The Cultural Logic of the Ordinary: Interactional Semiosis and the (Re)-Framing of Daily Life among Japanese Younger Adults. Journal of Linguistic Anthropology.
- (2022). Negotiating identities: First person pronominal use between Japanese university students. Pragmatics and Society.
- (2021). Discourses of Anticipatory Futures among Japanese Younger adults. Language, Discourse and Society.
- (2021). Discourse (Re)-framing: Indirect resistance to becoming a shakaijin `fully socialized adult' in contemporary Japan. Language, Culture and Society.
- (2020). K-Pop idols in Japan: The translation of Korean masculinities in music video. East Asian Journal of Popular Culture 6(1), 27-43. DOI: 10.1386_0013_1
- (2018). With Yoshiko Matsumoto. The case of Japanese otona `adult': Mediatized gender as a marketing device. Discourse and Communication 12(4), 401 - 423.
- (2018). 'Herbivore Men' and Interlocutor Constructed Language. Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 28(2), 253 - 282.
- (2015). Analyzing the force of pragmatic particles in actual use. Proceedings of the 17th Conference of the Pragmatics Society of Japan, 9.
- (2014). Alternative masculinities: Sooshokukei-danshi ``herbivore men" and first person pronoun usage. Journal and Proceedings of the Gender Awareness in Language Education Special Interest Group 7, 5-29.
Book Chapters
- (Forthcoming). The spatio-temporality of desire: Younger Japanese women's use of Instagram. Routledge Handbook of Social Media.
- (Forthcoming). As Contributor with Yoshiko Matsumoto. From the peripheries of adulthood: Deconstructing culturally-expected identities of age categories. John Benjamins
Translations
- (2020). The inherent stylistic grammar of manga [Koyuu no hyoogen bunpoo]. Author: Natsume, Fusanosuke. In Toku, Masami and Dollase, Hiromi (Eds.) MANGA!: Visual Pop-Culture in ARTS Education.
Manuscripts Under Review and In Prep
- Elegies for the Future: The Remaking of Ordinary Life in Japan in a Time of Disaster
- Bivalent Japanese modernities: Feminine linguistic styles of late-bubble trendy dramas.
Research Activity
2023 - 2024 Fulbright-Hays Faculty Research Abroad Grant ($111, 967)
Courses
2024 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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SLC 421 | Japanese Lit in Translation |
SLC 598 | Special Topics |
2024 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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JPN 590 | Reading and Conference |
JPN 592 | Research |
JPN 595 | Continuing Registration |
JPN 599 | Thesis |
JPN 333 | Japanese Civilization |
JPN 494 | Special Topics |
JPN 598 | Special Topics |
SLC 494 | Special Topics |
SLC 598 | Special Topics |
2023 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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JPN 590 | Reading and Conference |
JPN 592 | Research |
JPN 595 | Continuing Registration |
JPN 599 | Thesis |
2022 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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JPN 492 | Honors Directed Study |
JPN 493 | Honors Thesis |
JPN 115 | Japanese Popular Culture |
2021 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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JPN 493 | Honors Thesis |
SLC 421 | Japanese Lit in Translation |
SLC 598 | Special Topics |
2021 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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JPN 493 | Honors Thesis |
JPN 115 | Japanese Popular Culture |
SLC 494 | Special Topics |
2020 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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SLC 421 | Japanese Lit in Translation |
JPN 309 | Japanese Oral Communication I |