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Keita Moore

Keita Moore

Specialization: Contemporary Japanese and Korean Media

Email:kcmoore@ucsb.edu

Dissertation Title – Grand Designs: Videogames, Social Regulation, and the Politics of Wasted Time in Transpacific Japan

ACADEMIC HISTORY:

  • M.A., University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa in Asian Studies
  • B.A., Colorado College in Asian Studies, Distinction in International Studies

ADVISOR:

PUBLICATIONS:

“Monstrous Pasts, Robotic Futures: A Review Essay.” The Journal of Asian Studies 78, no. 2 (2019): 449-54.

PANEL PRESENTATIONS:

2019 “Shifting Political Gears: The Medial Politics of Metal Gear Solid,” 17th Annual Cultural Studies Conference. Tulane University, Louisiana.
2019 “Shifting Political Gears: The Medial Politics of Metal Gear Solid,” at Global Asias 5 Conference. Pennsylvania State University, Pennsylvania.
2017 “Getting Away with Murder: Ludic Violence in the Japanese Context,” at the Annual American Ethnological Society’s Conference. Stanford University, California.

RESEARCH PRESENTATIONS:

2019 “Fast Times in FINAL FANTASY VII: Modern Anxieties, Postmodern Hopes,” at the Digital Games Research Association Conference (DiGRA). Kyoto, Japan.
2019 “Warped Reflections: Postmodern Anxiety in FINAL FANTASY VII,” at Imaging East Asia UC Santa Barbara Graduate Conference. Santa Barbara California.
2018 “(Un)Lucky Seven: Uneasy Postmodernism in FINAL FANTASY VII,” at Mechademia Conference on Asian Popular Culture. Minneapolis, Minnesota
2018 “An Aspiration to Organic Sociality: Between Marxism and Posthumanism,” at Lukács and the World: Rethinking Global Circuits of Cultural Production. Santa Barbara, California.
2017 “Going Backwards to Move Forwards: Popular Memory in Post-Authoritarian Korean War Films,” at the 28th Annual School of Pacific and Asian Studies Graduate Student Conference. Honolulu, Hawai’i
2016 “Back to the Present: Towards a Narratology of Gōsuto Torikku,” at the Mechademia Conference on Asian Popular Culture. Minneapolis, Minnesota.

OTHER ACADEMIC PRESENTATIONS:

2018 “From Translation to Transnationalism: Considering Localization from an Industry and Academic Perspective,” at Graphic Voices. Santa Barbara, California.
2018 “Accosted in Translation: Japanese Language as Subcultural Capital in Fan Communities,” at Parameters of Play: Difficulty, Distinction & Criticism in Videogames. Santa Barbara, California.
2017 “The Residue of History: Nationhoods of Post-Authoritarian Korean War Film,” at the UCSB Graduate Student Research Symposium in Korean Studies. Santa Barbara, California.

GUEST LECTURES:

2020 Power Play: Video Games, Empire, and Representation in Japan,” in Japan 165: Popular Culture in Japan. University of California, Santa Barbara.
2019 “The Politics of Japanese Media: The State of Violence,” in Japan 25: Violence and the State in Japan. Popular Culture in Japan. University of California, Santa Barbara.
2018 “Looking Ahead: The Robotic, Cyborgian and Natural Futures of Japan,” in Japan 165: Popular Culture in Japan. University of California, Santa Barbara.
2018 “The Politics of Japanese Media: Placing the J-Game,” in Japan 165: Popular Culture in Japan. University of California, Santa Barbara.
2018 “What’s ‘Japanese’ about Videogames? Problematizing the National Origins of New Media,” in East Asia 120: Popular Culture in Japan. University of California, Irvine.

INTERPRETATION:

2020 Miyajima, Tatsuo. “Tatsuo Miyajima: In Conversation,” a public lecture at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara.
2020 Miyajima, Tatsuo. “Miyajima’s LED art illuminates the Santa Barbara Museum of Art,” for KRCW public access radio, Los Angeles.
2019 Kondo, Aisuke. “Diaspora Memoria: Performance Art Viewing and Talk,” a lecture at the University of California, Santa Barbara

TEACHING EXPERIENCE:

Instructor of Record

  • Japan 145 – Advanced Japanese Reading II, Winter 2024
  • Japan 165 – Japanese Popular Culture, Summer 2023
  • Japan 165 – Japanese Popular Culture, Summer 2021

Teaching Assistant

  • Modern East Asian Cultural Studies, Spring 2021
  • Introduction to Buddhism, Winter 2021
  • Japanese 1 (1st Year Language), Fall 2020
  • Japanese 6 (2nd Year Language), Spring 2019
  • Violence and the State in Japan, Winter 2019
  • Japanese 4 (2nd Year Language), Fall 2018

ACADEMIC SERVICE:

  • Parameters of Play Research Focus Group: Co-convener of an Interdisciplinary Research Focus Group dedicated to the study of ludic media. September 2019-June 2020.
  • Graduate Student Association Delegate: November 2018-Present
  • Graduate Student Japanese Language Club: Founder. October 2017-Present.

SELECTED AWARDS:

University of California, Santa Barbara

  • Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Postdoctoral Fellowship for Research in Japan (2020-2021)
  • Graduate Research Accelerator Award (2019)
  • Central Fellowship (2017-2023)
  • Kathryn W. Davis Fellow for Peace at Middlebury (2018)

 University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa:

  • Summer Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship (2017)
  • University of Hawai’i Center for Japanese Studies Graduate Student Travel Award (2016)
  • Seidensticker Award for SPAS Graduate Student Conference (2016)
  • Tasuku Harada Graduate Scholarship in Japanese Studies (2016-17)
  • Center for Japanese Studies Fellowship (2016-17)
  • Starr Foundation Graduate Fellowship in Asian Studies (2015-17)
  • Asian Studies Departmental Merit Scholarship (2015-2017)

Inter-University Center for Japanese Language Studies:

  • Sato Foundation Scholarship (2011-2012)
  • U.S. Department of Education Scholarship (2011-2012)

Colorado College

  • Phi Beta Kappa, Member (2011-Present)
  • National Japanese Honor Society, Member (2011-Present)
  • Fulbright Scholarship, Alternate Candidate (2011)
  • Excellence in Asian Studies, Recipient (2011 & 2009)
  • Japanese Language Award, Recipient (2009)
  • Colorado College Gaylord Scholarship (2010)
  • Colorado College Venture Grant for Independent Research (2010)
  • Colorado College Presidential Merit Scholarship (2007-2011)