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Hannah Dahlberg-Dodd

Project Researcher at Tokyo College, The University of Tokyo

Areas of expertise

  • - Linguistics
  • - Media Studies
  • - Character Language

Major works

  • Dahlberg-Dodd, H. E. (2020). O-jōsama kotoba and a stylistics of same-sex desire in Japanese yuri narratives.” In J. Welker (ed.), Mechademia: Second Arc 13(1): 6-23.
  • Dahlberg-Dodd, H. E. (2020). Script variation as audience design: Imagining readership and community in Japanese yuri comics. Language in Society 49: 357-378. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0047404519000794
  • Dahlberg-Dodd, H. E. (2019). The author in the post-internet age: Fan works, authorial function, and the archive. Transformative Works 30. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3983/twc.2019.1408
  • Dahlberg-Dodd, H. E. (2018). Voices of the hero: Dominant masculine ideologies through the speech of Japanese shōnen protagonists. Gender and Language 12(3): 346-371.DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1558/genl.32536

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About me

Hannah is a sociocultural linguist, and her research focuses on language use in popular media. In particular, she focuses on fictionalized speech styles, how they are produced, consumed, and perceived, and the relationship that these styles have with characters (kyara) and personae. She has explored these topics from a number of angles, including first-person pronoun use in shonen anime, script variation in yuri magazines, and katakana transformations in fantasy video games.

Hannah received her PhD in Japanese Linguistics at The Ohio State University in 2019, and she was a Hosei International Fund Fellow from 2019-2020. She has teaching experience in a number of subjects, including beginning and intermediate Japanese, linguistics, and media studies.

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