Dr Lucy Fraser
Faculty Fellow Sem. 2, 2019.
Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities
+61 7 334 67414
Researcher biography
Dr Lucy Fraser is a Lecturer in the School of Languages and Cultures. Her co-authored book project is tentatively titled “Maidens Sans Frontiers: Japan-Europe Border Crossing and the Shōjo [Girl] Imagination.” It looks at European connections within Japanese Girl Culture, both the ways in which European locales and characters are depicted and reimagined in Japanese culture, and how Japanese theoretical works on girl culture are applicable to girls’ texts outside Japan.
Lucy will be using her time in IASH to work on chapters and revisions for the book.
Books
Aoyama, Tomoko and Fraser, Lucy (2017). Anime Japanese : course reader for JAPN3130. rev. ed. ed. Brisbane: University of Queensland. School of Languages and Cultures.
Fraser, Lucy (2017). The pleasures of metamorphosis: Japanese and English fairy tale transformation of "The Little Mermaid". Detroit, MI, United States: Wayne State University Press.
Book Chapters
Fraser, Lucy (2023). Flights across Inner Borders. Border-Crossing Japanese Literature. (pp. 59-78) London: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781003143178-5
Fraser, Lucy (2022). Women and the non-human animal: rewriting the canine classic: Tsushima Yuko, Ito Hiromi, Tawada Yoko, Matsuura Rieko, and Sakuraba Kazuki. Handbook of modern and contemporary Japanese women writers. (pp. 80-93) edited by Rebecca Copeland. Tokyo, Japan: MHM Limited.
Aoyama, Tomoko, Kawasaki, Kenko and Fraser, Lucy (2020). From Fukushima to Hiroshima: Teaching Social Engagement through Manga. Manga!: Visual Pop-Culture in ARTS Education. (pp. 149-157) edited by Masami Toku and Hiromi Tsuchiya Dollase. Viseu, Portugal: InSEA Publications. doi: 10.24981/2020-3
Fraser, Lucy (2020). Alice on the edge: girls' culture and "Western" fairy tales in Japan. Re-Orienting the Fairy Tale: Contemporary Adaptations Across Cultures. (pp. 309-333) edited by Murai, Mayako and Cardi, Luciana. Detroit, United States: Wayne State University Press.
Clark, Laura and Fraser, Lucy (2020). Gender in Japanese literature and literary studies. The Routledge companion to gender and Japanese culture. (pp. 291-301) edited by Coates, J., Fraser, L. and Pendleton, M.. London, United Kingdom: Routledge.
Fraser, Lucy (2020). Japanese sleeping beauties abroad: Australian retellings of Kawabata Yasunari’s fairy-tale novella. Japan in Australia: culture, context and connection. (pp. 96-112) edited by David Chapman and Carol Hayes. London, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9780429196485-7
Coates, Jennifer, Fraser, Lucy and Pendleton, Mark (2020). Introduction: gender and culture in Japan today. The Routledge companion to gender and Japanese culture. (pp. 1-7) edited by Jennifer Coates, Lucy Fraser and Mark Pendleton. Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781315179582-1
King, Emerald L and Fraser, Lucy (2017). Girls in lace dresses: the intersections of gothic in Japanese youth fiction and fashion. New directions in children's gothic: debatable lands. (pp. 102-118) edited by Anna Jackson. New York, NY United States: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781315695877
Fraser, Lucy (2015). Girls, old women and fairytale families in The Old Woman's Skin and Howl's Moving Castle. Configurations of family in contemporary Japan. (pp. 65-76) edited by Tomoko Aoyama, Laura Dales and Romit Dasgupta. Abington, Oxon, United Kingdom: Routledge.
Fujimoto, Yukari (original author) and Fraser, Lucy (translator) (2014). Where is my place in the world? Early shojo manga portrayals of lesbianism. Mechademia 9: Origins. (pp. 25-42) edited by Frenchy Lunning. Minneapolis, MN, United States: University of Minnesota Press.
Journal Articles
Fraser, Lucy (2022). Mapping fairy-tale space: pastiche and metafiction in borderless tales by Christy Williams. Marvels & Tales, 36 (2), 347-349. doi: 10.1353/mat.2022.0021
Fraser, Lucy (2019). Review of Making a Splash: Mermaids (and Mermen) in 20th and 21st Century Audio-visual Media by Philip Hayward. John Libbey Publishing, 2017.. Marvels and Tales, 33 (2), 352-354.
Fraser, Lucy (2018). Dogs, gods, and monsters: the animal–human connection in Bakin’s Hakkenden, Folktales and Legends, and two contemporary retellings. Japanese Studies, 38 (1), 103-123. doi: 10.1080/10371397.2018.1448972
Fusami Ogi (original author), Lucy Fraser (co-translator), Isabelle Bettridge (co-translator) and Liisa Kuru (2018). Beyond Borders: Shojo manga and gender. U.S.-Japan Women's Journal, 54, 75-97.
Fraser, Lucy and Monden, Masafumi (2017). The maiden switch: new possibilities for understanding Japanese shojo manga (girls' comics). Asian Studies Review, 41 (4), 544-561. doi: 10.1080/10357823.2017.1370436
Fraser, Lucy (2015). Review of Elaine Kazu Gerbert (trans.) Strange Tale of Panorama Island (by Edogawa Ranpo). Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 2013. Asian Studies Review, 39 (2), 343-344. doi: 10.1080/10357823.2014.979739
Monden, Masafumi and Fraser, Lucy (2015). 星の瞳に映るオルタナティブ --「典型的」少女マンガの再評価をめざして. Global Manga Studies, 5, 149-175.
Fraser, Lucy (2014). Reading and retelling girls across cultures: mermaid tales in Japanese and English. Japan Forum, 26 (2), 246-264. doi: 10.1080/09555803.2014.900515
Fraser, Lucy (2013). Lost property fairy tales: Ogawa Yoko and Higami Kumiko's transformations of "The Little Mermaid". Marvels and Tales: Journal of Fairy-Tale Studies, 27 (2), 181-193.
Fraser, Lucy and Kayo, Takeuchi (2012). The destinations of "women's friendships": imperializing education in the women's classroom. U.S. - Japan Women's Journal, 43, 106-125.
Fraser, Lucy (2012). An unsuitable job for a girl: violence and the girl in two novels by Sakuraba Kazuki. Intersections: gender and sexuality in Asia and the Pacific (28), 1-12.
Fraser, Lucy (2012). Review of Noriko J. Horiguchi. Women adrift: the literature of japan’s imperial body. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2011. Asian Studies Review, 36 (4), 567-568. doi: 10.1080/10357823.2012.740919
Honda, Masuko, Fraser, Lucy (translator) and Aoyama, Tomoko (translator) (2010). The invalidation of gender in girls' Manga today, with a special focus on Nodame Cantabile. US Japan Women's Journal, 38, 12-24.
Fraser, Lucy (2010). The metamorphosis of female desire: Contemporary Japanese imaginings of "The Little Mermaid". East Asia Forum, 13, 24-35.
King, Emerald and Fraser, Lucy (2010). An Interview with Sakumi Yoshino. U.S. - Japan Women's Journal, 38, 113-132.
Fraser, Lucy (2008). Gendered language in recent short stories by Japanese women, and in English translation. New Voices, 2, 1-20.
Kawasaki, Kenko, Fraser, Lucy (Trans.) and Aoyama, Tomoko (Trans.) (2008). Osaki Midori and the role of the girl in Showa modernism. Asian Studies Review, 32 (3), 293-306. doi: 10.1080/10357820802299684
Creative Work
Tsushima, Yuko (original author), Fraser, Lucy (co-translator) and Uchiyama, Akiko (co-translator) (2020). Tōkina-to: The Story of the Owl God’s Little Sister. Iowa City, IA, United States: Exchanges: Journal of Literary Translation.
Thesis
Fraser, Lucy (2013). Fairy tale transformations and gender: The Little Mermaid's metamorphoses in Japanese and English. PhD Thesis, School of Languages and Comparative Cultural Studies, The University of Queensland.