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William B.-Crawford

Given Name: 
William B.
Family Name: 
Crawford
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Rank: 
Part-Time Faculty
Department: 
East Asian Languages and Literatures
Office: 
2709 Cathedral of Learning
Office phone number: 
412-624-5568
Regional specialty: 
East Asia
China
Japan
Email Address: 
wcrawford@katz.pitt.edu
Region: 
East Asia
Area of specialization: 
<p>Business; Chinese Language; Chinese Literature; Japanese Literature; Research in East Asia; Freshman Studies; Comparative Literature</p>
Qualifications: 
PhD, Indiana University, 1972
Publications: 

2005    “China’s Management Buyouts in Fiction and Fact”: Part of on-campus lecture series sponsored by Asian Studies Center, University of Pittsburgh Center for International Studies

 

“The Blizzard Leaves no Trace: Putting a Popular Spin on Economic Reality,” presented for Panel 23: “Idealism Besieged: Chinese Anti-Corruption Fiction as a Response to Social Change”, at the 34th annual conference of the Mid-Atlantic Region Association for Asian Studies.

 

2004   “Penetrating the Cultural Context of Business from Within: Cultural Data-Mining for Expatriates,” open lecture at National Dong Hwa University School of Management, Taiwan.

“Maintaining Local Sensitivity Amid Global Diversity in Human Resources Management”: seminar presentation/discussion, National Dong Hwa University Graduate Program in Management, Taiwan 

 

Gabriella-Lukacs

Given Name: 
Gabriella
Family Name: 
Lukacs
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Rank: 
Associate Professor
Department: 
Anthropology
Office: 
3302 Wesley W. Posvar Hall
Regional specialty: 
East Asia
Japan
Email Address: 
lukacs@pitt.edu
Region: 
East Asia
Area of specialization: 
<p>Television Industry; Digital Media Industry; Political Economy; Cultural Production; Consumer Culture; Labor; Gender; Japan</p>
Biography: 
<p>Gabriella Lukacs is a cultural anthropologist whose research explores the themes of mass media (television), new media technologies (Internet, cellular phones), capitalism, subjectivity, labor, and neoliberal governmentality in contemporary Japan. Her first book, <em>Scripted Affects, Branded Selves</em>, analyzes post-signification television in 1990s Japan. It focuses on late 1980s development of a new primetime serial, the trendy drama. It interprets the genre as a shift in the Japanese television industry from producing narrative-based entertainment to selling lifestyle. Professor Lukacs&#39; current project continues to examine questions of subjectivity and capitalism, but it focuses on new media technologies.</p>
Publications: 

2013   “Dreamwork: Cell Phone Novelists, Labor, and Politics in Contemporary Japan” Cultural Anthropology

 

2013    “Cool Japan, Soft Power, and Cultural Globalization,” In Towards New Humanities in the Era of Ubiquitous Media, Yoshimi Shunya and Ishida Hidetaka, eds. Tokyo: Tokyo University Press

 

2012   “Workplace Dramas and Labor Fantasies in 1990s Japan,” in Global Futures in East Asia, Ann Anagnost, Andrea Arai, and Hai Ren, eds. Stanford University Press