Frank Mondelli
Assistant Professor of Japanese Studies
University of Delaware
111 Jastak-Burgess Hall
Biography
āFrank Mondelli (éÆåŗēćć©ć³ćÆ) is Assistant Professor of Japanese Studies in the Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures at the University of Delaware. His research and teaching interests focus on the material and cultural history of technology, media, and disability in modern Japan, including the history and āpolitics of assistive technologies, videogames, and traditional craftwork. His current book manuscript explores the historical intersection of D/deafness, music, and technological and media spectacle in 20th century and contemporary Japan. His academic research is deeply influenced by his work in disability and Deaf rights advocacy in both the United States and Japan. He has taught courses in Japanese videogames, literature, and culture, as well as in Science and Technology Studies (STS).
Professor Mondelli has organized and chaired panels for conferences like the Society for Cinema and āāMedia Studies (SCMS), the Association for Asian Studies (AAS), and the Society for the History of Technology (SHOT). He has given invited talks at institutions like Princeton University, the Japan-U.S. Educational Commission, the American Printing House for the Blind, the University of California, Merced, Fukuyama University, Rikkyo University, Nanzan University, HÅsei University, and more. He also believes passionately in merging academic research with social activism and artisticā practice, and has organized conferences like āMediations: Disability, Technology, and the Artsā at Stanford, which featured research talks, art installations, and a dance performance; and he co-organized the āCripTech Metaverse Labā at Gray Area in San Francisco, which invited disabled artists to a three-day summit to experience and discuss disability expression and aesthetics in emerging media technologies.ā
Degrees
āPh.D. with Diāstinction in Japanese and Graduate Certificate in Science, Technology, & Society (STS), Stanford University, 2022
B.A. in Japanese and Lingāāuistics with High Honors, Swarthmore College, 2014ā
Selected Publications
āāVisible Vowels and Listening Limbs: Assistive Erasure in Japanese Publics,ā Osiris Vol 39: Disability and the History of Science, ed. Jaipreet āāāāVirdi, Mara Mills, and Sarah F. Rose (2024, forthcoming)
āBeautiful Sounds, Beautiful Life: Hearingā Aids and Music in 1950s Japan,ā Technology and Culture, Vol 63 No 4, pp 1057 ā 1077 (2022)
āMedia, Sāāemiotics, and Social Reform in Persona 5ā in Japanese Role-Playing Games: Genre, Representation, and Liminality in the JRPG (ed. Rachael Hutchinson and JĆ©rĆ©mie Pelletier-Gagnon, Lexington Books), pp 193 ā 212 (2022)āā
Selected Honors and Awards
āSTS Directorās Award for Advāāāancing Social Justice in Science, Technology, and Medicine, Stanford University (2022)
Fulābright U.S. Scholar Award (2019, 2014)
Enhanciāng Diversity in Graduate Education Doctoral Fellowship Program, Stanford University (2016)āā
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