Susan Jolliffe Napier (; born October 1955) is a professor of the Japanese program at
Tufts University
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. She was formerly the Mitsubishi Professor of Japanese Literature and Culture at the
University of Texas at Austin
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. She also worked as a visiting professor in the Department of
East Asian Languages and Civilizations at
Harvard University
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,
and in Cinema and Media Studies at the
University of Pennsylvania
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. Napier is an
anime
is a Traditional animation, hand-drawn and computer animation, computer-generated animation originating from Japan. Outside Japan and in English, ''anime'' refers specifically to animation produced in Japan. However, , in Japan and in Ja ...
and
manga
are comics or graphic novels originating from Japan. Most manga conform to a style developed in Japan in the late 19th century, and the form has a long history in earlier Japanese art. The term is used in Japan to refer to both comics ...
critic.
Biography
Susan Jolliffe Phelps was born in October 1955, the daughter of
Reginald H. Phelps (1909–2006), a historian and educational administrator, and Julia Phelps (; ). She was raised in
Cambridge, Massachusetts
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, graduated from
Radcliffe College
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,
and obtained her A.B., A.M., and PhD degrees from
Harvard University
Harvard University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Founded in 1636 and named for its first benefactor, the History of the Puritans in North America, Puritan clergyma ...
.
[ She married Ron Wells Napier on August 20, 1977, at King's Chapel,]University of Texas at Austin
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, and began working at a university in New York around 1985.
In 1991, Napier published ''Escape from the Wasteland: Romanticism and Realism in the Fiction of Mishima Yukio and Oe Kenzaburo''. Her second book, ''The Fantastic in Modern Japanese Literature: The Subversion of Modernity'', followed in 1996.
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External links
Tufts faculty guide
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at Nausicaa.net
Palgrave Macmillan author profile
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1955 births
21st-century American women
American Japanologists
American women academics
Anime and manga critics
Harvard University alumni
Harvard University faculty
Living people
Scholars of Japanese literature
Tufts University faculty
University of Texas at Austin faculty
Radcliffe College alumni