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Nozawa Shunsuke

Institute for Academic Innovation　Educational Research DivisionAssociate Professor

Researcher basic information

■ Degree
  • BA, New York University
  • MA, University of Chicago
  • Ph.D, University of Chicago
■ URL
researchmap URLホームページURL■ Various IDs
J-Global ID■ Research Keywords and Fields
Research Keyword
  • Linguistic Anthropology
  • Semiotics
  • Communication
  • Channel
  • Characterization
  • Media
  • Phatic
  • Contact
  • Popular Culture
  • Social History
  • Anonymity
  • Everyday
  • Voice
Research Field
  • Humanities & Social Sciences, Sociology
  • Humanities & Social Sciences, Linguistics
  • Humanities & Social Sciences, Cultural anthropology and folklore, Linguistic Anthropology
■ Educational Organization

Career

■ Career
Career
  • May 2021 - Present
    Hokkaido University, Institute for the Advancement of Higher Education, Associate Professor
  • Sep. 2019 - Apr. 2021
    Hokkaido University, Research Faculty of Media and Communication, Assistant Professor
  • Apr. 2017 - Aug. 2019
    University of Tokyo, Interfaculty Initiative in Information Studies, Visiting Researcher
  • Jun. 2015 - Mar. 2017
    University of Tokyo, Interfaculty Initiative in Information Studies, Project Associate Professor
  • Sep. 2012 - May 2015
    Dartmouth College, Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Languages and Literatures, Visiting Lecturer
Educational Background
  • 2011, University of Chicago, Anthropology

Research activity information

■ Awards
  • 2012, Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago, Sol Tax Dissertation Prize
    Shunsuke Nozawa
  • 2008, Center for East Asian Studies, University of Chicago, Dissertation Writing Fellowship
    Shunsuke Nozawa
  • 2005, Social Science Research Council, International Dissertation Research Fellowship
    Shunsuke Nozawa
  • 1999, New York University, Edward Sapir Award for Joint Linguistics and Anthropology Undergraduates
    Shunsuke Nozawa
■ Papers
■ Other Activities and Achievements
  • Texture, Everyday/Life, Effacement
    Shunsuke Nozawa, Eureka: Poetry and Criticism, 55, 7, 262, 2023, [Invited]
    Japanese
  • Phaticity: contact and its allure
    Shunsuke Nozawa, Anthropology News, 55, 11, 2014
■ Lectures, oral presentations, etc.
  • Discussant / Chair: The Semiotics of Society and Events
    Shunsuke Nozawa
    The 46th Conference of Japanese Association for Semiotic Studies, 12 Jul. 2026
    49737464, [Invited]
  • The magic of koekake: a semiotic ideology of contact
    Shunsuke Nozawa
    Workshop on Circulation / Communication of Voices, 25 Oct. 2025
    49737464, [Invited]
  • Indexicality, materiality, contact: the concept of index in linguistic anthropology
    Shunsuke Nozawa
    American Philosophy Forum of Japan, 28 Sep. 2025
    27 Sep. 2025 - 28 Sep. 2025, 49737464
  • Phatic indexicality and the semiotics of the channel
    Shunsuke Nozawa
    The 45th Conference of Japanese Association for Semiotic Studies, 06 Jul. 2025
    05 Jul. 2025 - 06 Jul. 2025, 49737464
  • The metapragmatics of the channel: a variation on indexicality
    Shunsuke Nozawa
    Study Group for Information Technology and Pragmatics, 18 Mar. 2025
    18 Mar. 2025 - 18 Mar. 2025, [Invited]
  • Discussant: “Context” in Discourse Analysis
    Shunsuke Nozawa
    Japanese Association of Sociolinguistic Sciences, 01 Mar. 2025
    28 Feb. 2025 - 02 Mar. 2025, [Invited]
  • Discussant: Social Feelings and Platformed Bodies
    Shunsuke Nozawa
    American Anthropological Association, 20 Nov. 2024
    [Invited], [International presentation]
  • Discussant: Framing Transitions Along Gender and Sexual Borders
    Shunsuke Nozawa
    American Anthropological Association, 15 Nov. 2023
    [Invited], [International presentation]
  • Channels and pleasure: the semiotic ideology of the phatic
    Shunsuke Nozawa
    The Japanese Association of Sociolinguistic Sciences, 16 Sep. 2023, Japanese, Nominated symposium
    16 Sep. 2023 - 16 Sep. 2023, [Invited]
  • The Phatic Function and the Liberal Imaginary of Communication
    Shunsuke Nozawa
    International Pragmatics Conference, 09 Jul. 2023
    [International presentation]
  • Characterization and imagined languages
    Shunsuke Nozawa
    Kyarachters: On the Other Side of Narrative, 30 Apr. 2023, English
    28 Apr. 2023 - 30 Apr. 2023, [Invited], [International presentation]
  • Signs of improper contact: harassment, triggers, and institutional wellbeing
    Shunsuke Nozawa
    Anthropology of Japan in Japan, 03 Dec. 2022, Oral presentation
  • Discussant: Crisis Chronotopes
    Shunsuke Nozawa
    Society for Linguistic Anthropology, 07 Apr. 2022
    [Invited], [International presentation]
  • Virtual life and the pleasure of gaps
    Shunsuke Nozawa
    When Anthropology and History Meet Comics and Animation, 11 Dec. 2020, Teri Silvio, English, Invited oral presentation
    11 Dec. 2020 - 12 Dec. 2020, Taipei, Taiwan, Province of China, [Invited], [International presentation]
  • Virtual life and the seiyūesque layer
    Shunsuke Nozawa
    East Asian Studies Seminar Series, 14 Oct. 2020, Sharon Kinsella, English, Oral presentation
    University of Manchester, United Kingdom, [Invited], [International presentation]
  • The seiyūesque: the layering of agency and the labor of characterization
    Shunsuke Nozawa
    Symposium: Desired Identities: New Technology-Based Metamorphosis in Japan, 28 Jun. 2020, Agnès Giard for EMTECH, English, Nominated symposium
    27 Jun. 2020 - 28 Jun. 2020, Musée du quai Branly - Jacques Chirac Youtube Channel, France, [Invited], [International presentation]
  • Becoming-channel: minor affects of the phatic in ASMR
    Shunsuke Nozawa
    American Anthropological Association, 21 Nov. 2019, English, Oral presentation
    [International presentation]
  • Discussant: Decentering Affective Labor: Gender and Labor in Japan’s Sex, Service, and Cultural Industries
    Shunsuke Nozawa
    Association for Asian Studies, 21 Mar. 2019
    [Invited], [International presentation]
  • Socialization to contact and the value of talk in celebrity culture
    Shunsuke Nozawa
    American Association of Applied Linguistics, 12 Mar. 2019, Oral presentation
    [International presentation]
  • Real nobodies: characterizing ordinary people
    Shunsuke Nozawa
    American Anthropological Association, 15 Nov. 2018, English, Oral presentation
    [International presentation]
  • Discussant: Recalibrating Normativities in Contemporary Japan: Gender, Race, and Communication
    Shunsuke Nozawa
    American Anthropological Association, 14 Nov. 2018
    [Invited], [International presentation]
  • The seiyūesque. Panel: They Move: Voice, Body, Machine. Mechademia Conference. Kyoto. 25 June.
    Shunsuke Nozawa
    Mechademia Conference, 25 Jun. 2018, English, Oral presentation
  • Pleasure, effacement, and 2.5D love
    Shunsuke Nozawa
    Techno-Realities and Affective Creatures, 14 Jun. 2018, English, Nominated symposium
    Université Paris Nanterre, [Invited], [International presentation]
  • Refashioning gendered language and body among Japanese youth at university drag (josou) contests
    Ayumi Miyazaki; Gavin Furukawa; Shunsuke Nozawa
    Japanese Society of Cultural Anthropology, 03 Jun. 2018, English, Oral presentation
    [Domestic Conference]
  • Platforms, contents, and characterization in Japanese popular culture
    Shunsuke Nozawa
    Daiwa Scholarship Lecture Series, 30 Nov. 2017, English, Invited oral presentation
    Hosei University, [Invited], [Domestic Conference]
  • Intertwining femininities and masculinities at drag ( josou) performances among Japanese youth
    Ayumi Miyazaki; Gavin Furukawa; Shunsuke Nozawa
    The Japan Sociological Society, 05 Nov. 2017, English, Oral presentation
    [Domestic Conference]
  • Discussant: Language Ideologies on the Move: Scales and Stakes of Linguistic Alterity
    Shunsuke Nozawa
    Asian Studies Conference Japan, 08 Jul. 2017
    [Invited], [International presentation]
  • Workshop in the 38th Congress Reconsidering Discordance in Interaction
    Yamaguchi Masataka; Takekuro Makiko; Ogiwara Maki; Nozawa Shunsuke; Asai Yuichi
    The Japanese Journal of Language in Society, 2017, The Japanese Association of Sociolinguistic Sciences, Japanese
    2017 - 2017
  • Connection and disconnection: the semiotic ideology of phaticity
    Shunsuke Nozawa
    Human Language Circle, 05 Nov. 2016, Japanese, Oral presentation
    Rikkyo University, [Domestic Conference]
  • Inter-faces of the city: masks and partitions in Tokyo
    Shunsuke Nozawa
    American Anthropological Association, 17 Oct. 2016, English, Oral presentation
    [International presentation]
  • Discussant: Sticks and Stones: Struggles in Discourse
    Shunsuke Nozawa
    American Anthropological Association, 16 Oct. 2016
    [Invited], [International presentation]
  • Discussant: Methods in Media Studies: Performance, Labor, Remediation
    Shunsuke Nozawa
    Society of Socio-Informatics, 10 Sep. 2016
    [Invited]
  • The voice-work and the labor of animation in Japan
    Shunsuke Nozawa
    Labor of Animation, 17 Jun. 2016, English, Invited oral presentation
    Academia Sinica, Taipei, [Invited], [International presentation]
  • Phatic spectacle: contact and its discontents
    Shunsuke Nozawa
    American Ethnological Society Spring Conference, 02 Mar. 2016
  • Masks, handshakes, and fantasies of the phatic
    Shunsuke Nozawa
    Boas Lecture, Barnard College/ Columbia University, 29 Feb. 2016, English, Invited oral presentation
    Barnard College/ Columbia University, [Invited], [International presentation]
  • Phaticity, indexicality, language ideology: triggers and handshakes
    野澤 俊介
    Japanese Society of Cultural Anthropology, 2016, 日本文化人類学会
    2016 - 2016, マリノフスキーが発案した「交感」概念を言語人類学、とりわけ記号論的視点から再考し、交感性に分析の眼差しを向けることが「やりとりの人類学」における方法論的、理論的枠組みへどのように寄与するのかを考察する。ヤコブソンのコミュニケーション「機能」論による記号論的整理を背景に、近年取りざたされつつある交感性に関する議論を鑑みながら、交感性に重点を置く言語観の実例としてアメリカと日本からのケースを紹介する。
  • Discussant: Taking Offense: Semiotic Encounters with Insult, Vulgarity and Obscenity
    Shunsuke Nozawa
    American Anthropological Association, 03 Dec. 2014
    [Invited], [International presentation]
  • Spiritualism, technology, and voice acting
    Shunsuke Nozawa
    European Association for Japanese Studies, 27 Aug. 2014
    [International presentation]
  • Phaticity
    Shunsuke Nozawa
    Narrating Global Futures: Religion, Culture and Nostalgia, 01 Mar. 2014, English, Invited oral presentation
    Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, [Invited], [International presentation]
  • Effacement-work
    Shunsuke Nozawa
    Remediations II, 15 Mar. 2013, English, Invited oral presentation
    University of Chicago, [Invited], [International presentation]
  • Voice acting and the chronotope of ‘2.5 dimensionality’
    Shunsuke Nozawa
    Mechademia Conference, 29 Nov. 2012
    [International presentation]
  • ‘Pseudo-synchronicity,’ self-effacement, and the techno-semiotic scheduling of togetherness in Japanese social media
    Shunsuke Nozawa
    Association for Asian Studies, 16 Mar. 2012
    [International presentation]
  • Engendering sociality: phatic traces in Japan
    Shunsuke Nozawa
    American Anthropological Association, 16 Nov. 2011
    [International presentation]
  • The world of characters: reading Japanese society through popular culture
    Shunsuke Nozawa
    Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series, 25 Oct. 2011, English, Invited oral presentation
    Sophia University, [Invited], [Domestic Conference]
  • Discussant: Conference: Qualia
    Shunsuke Nozawa
    Qualia, 30 Apr. 2010
    [International presentation]
■ Syllabus
  • 特別演習（言語研究実践）, 2024年, 修士課程, 国際広報メディア・観光学院
  • 研究倫理と手法, 2024年, 修士課程, 国際広報メディア・観光学院
  • 日本語伝達論演習, 2024年, 修士課程, 国際広報メディア・観光学院
  • プロジェクトスタディⅠ, 2024年, 学士課程, 現代日本学プログラム課程
  • プロジェクトスタディⅡ, 2024年, 学士課程, 現代日本学プログラム課程
  • プロジェクトスタディⅢ（卒業論文）, 2024年, 学士課程, 現代日本学プログラム課程
  • Introduction to Japanese Studies Ⅱ(Culture), 2024年, 学士課程, 総合教育部
  • Introduction to Japanese Studies Ⅱ(Culture), 2024年, 学士課程, 現代日本学プログラム課程
  • 国際交流Ⅱ, 2024年, 学士課程, 国際本部
  • 日本学講読, 2024年, 学士課程, 全学教育
  • 日本文化論Ⅲ, 2024年, 学士課程, 現代日本学プログラム課程
  • Aspects of Japan Ⅰ, 2024年, 学士課程, 総合教育部
  • Aspects of Japan Ⅰ, 2024年, 学士課程, 現代日本学プログラム課程
  • General Education Seminar, 2024年, 学士課程, 総合教育部
  • General Education Seminar, 2024年, 学士課程, 現代日本学プログラム課程
■ Research Themes
  • The Transition and Application of the Concept of Peircean Index: Through the Lineage of Media Studies and Linguistic Anthropology
    Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research
    Apr. 2025 - Mar. 2028
    佐古 仁志; 野澤 俊介; 谷島 貫太; 加藤 隆文
    Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), Tokyo Junior College of Transportation, 25K03670
  • Life Histories of the Transformed: Identities on the Gender and Sexual Border
    Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research
    01 Apr. 2021 - 31 Mar. 2025
    Furukawa Gavin
    The project revealed how youth on the gender/sexual border find and create identity terms. They re-interpret gender categories for desired traits like power, rejecting certain forms as undesirable, or use joso for internal stability. They engage in linguistic ideological work, severing traditional gender-language links and resignifying terms. Living abroad and social media are crucial for forming new identities and envisioning alternative futures.Complexities of gender came to light; some practices reinforced heteronormativity, others blur gender boundaries, or stem from internal motivations. Family was also discovered to be central for Japanese LGBTQ+ youth, with coming out often immediately linked to marriage and children, contrasting with traditional parental expectations. Furthermore, traditional Japanese gender ideologies persist in Japanese discourse, reinforcing essentialism despite global shifts. Social media activism, while vital, faces limitations like commercial pressures.
    Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), Sophia University, 21K12509
  • On Social Contact: the Harassment Discourse in Contemporary Japan
    Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research
    01 Apr. 2021 - 31 Mar. 2024
    Nozawa Shunsuke
    Cued by the ever-diversifying idioms of ‘harassment’ in contemporary Japanese society, the project has examined the discourse of improper contact as indicative of a metacommunicative struggle to articulate and negotiate boundaries of communication. The general research findings of the project is that the discourse of improper contact conjures up a hegemonic demand for liberal ideals in Japanese public life adhering to models of accountability and transparency, and that the performance of this discourse shapes assumptions about subjectivity, historicity, and the nature of liberal democratic communication.
    Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), Hokkaido University, 21K01853
  • A Study on the Interaction Between Service Industry and Media Language with Gender
    Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
    01 Apr. 2016 - 31 Mar. 2019
    Furukawa Gavin; SUGIMORI Noriko
    This research focuses on the relationship between gender, language, media and service labor utlizing the practices of young people doing josou or cross-dressing as the main focus. Our data sources included josou contests at Japanese universities, various media representations of those doing josou, and josou in service-related industries such as josou cafes where customers are waited on by young men in dresses. For young people participating in the practice of josou, we found that it had various meanings, functions, and consequences. While josou is a free expression of gender that critically and creatively reconstructs the normative gender and sexuality representations, it invites looks of unwanted curiosity and desire while commercializing and glorifying the consumption of gender and sexuality. This study revealed that practice of josou has multiple meanings in Japanese society and cannot be reduced to simple categorization through masculinity, femininity and sexual orientation.
    Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), 16K02032