Seaman Awarded Research Fellowship by Japan Foundation

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Amanda Seaman, professor of Japanese literature in the department of languages, literatures and cultures, has been awarded a Long-Term Research Fellowship by the Japan Foundation, meant to allow “preeminent foreign scholars in Japanese studies ... to conduct research in Japan.”

With the foundation’s support, Seaman will assume a four-month research residency at Sophia University in Tokyo during the spring semester, continuing work on a book project examining the representation of illness and affliction in contemporary Japanese fiction, diaristic writing, and graphic novels.

Seaman joined the UMass Amherst faculty in 2003. In addition to her work on Japanese literary, gender, and cultural studies, she is an advisor and steering committee member of the Five College Program in Culture, Health and Science (CHS). Among her publications are “Bodies of Evidence: Women, Society and Detective Fiction in 1990s Japan” (2004) and “Writing Pregnancy in Low-Fertility Japan” (2017).