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

Becoming-Channel: Affect, the Phatic, ASMR　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　
Shunsuke Nozawa
柿並良佑、難波阿丹編『「情動」論への招待—感情と情動のフロンティア』勁草書房, 2024

The Concentration Booth and the Handshaking Lane: Ideologies of the Phatic
Shunsuke Nozawa
International Journal of the Sociology of Language, 2023, 284, 15, 36, 2023, [Peer-reviewed], [Invited]
Scientific journal, Scholars of language and culture have effectively used the language ideology concept to critique the referentialist assumption in the post-Enlightenment conceptualization of language and society. Continuing with this critical project, this article attempts a further reorientation of our analytic metalanguage to explore the ideology of the phatic, the way in which salient emphasis is placed on problems regarding communicative channels of contact. The article identifies this ideology in the increasingly visible role played by phatic labor and its concrete manifestations in scenes of service and affective labor in contemporary Japan. Two separate instances are analyzed to reveal their common engagement with channels of contact as a metapragmatic concern. First, I analyze one Japanese restaurant chain's attempt to design and control the material zone of contact in dining experience, as indicative of the larger tendency in the contemporary economy to standardize consumer desire at the level of the phatic. Second, I look to the culture of celebrity, especially popular idols, and examine the institutionalization of fan-idol contact that has become a hegemonic marketing strategy. These cases witness rituals of public encounter that either work to hybridize human speech acts with nonhuman speech-actants inhabiting the material environment of contact, or to regulate forms of interaction deemed detrimental to the channel of affect through monitoring, interruption, and other forms of phatic policing. I use this analysis to draw attention to the necessity of taking the phatic function seriously in the scholarly exploration of language ideology. While scholars in various fields have frequently spoken of the centrality of communicative labor in postindustrial societies, the analytic focus on ideologization of the phatic offers a more precise theoretical and empirical framework for examining how communication is fetishized as the central site of political and economic intervention.

Review: Making Meaningful Lives: Tales from an Aging Japan by Iza Kavedžija
Shunsuke Nozawa
Ageing & Society, 41, 3, 708, 709, CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS, Mar. 2021, [Invited]
English

Idolatry and Mediumship: Topologies of Affect in Japanese Media Culture
Shunsuke Nozawa
Aoyagi Hiroshi, Patrick W. Galbraith, Mateja Kovacic, eds., Idology in Transcultural Perspective: Anthropological Investigations of Popular Idolatry, 259, 285, Springer International Publishing, 2021, [Peer-reviewed], [Invited]
In book

Face
Shunsuke Nozawa
The International Encyclopedia of Linguistic Anthropology, 1, 4, Wiley, 09 Nov. 2020, [Peer-reviewed], [Invited]
English, Scientific journal

Review: Tokyo Boogie-Woogie: Japan's Pop Era and Its Discontents by Hiromu Nagahara
Shunsuke Nozawa
Monumenta Nipponica, 75, 1, 176, 179, Project Muse, 2020, [Invited]
English, Scientific journal

Phatic Communication
Shunsuke Nozawa
Jason Karlin, Patrick Galbraith, and Shunsuke Nozawa, eds., Japanese Media and Popular Culture: An Open-Access Digital Initiative of the University of Tokyo, An Open-Access Digital Initiative of the University of Tokyo, 2020, [Peer-reviewed]
English, Research institution

Effacement
Shunsuke Nozawa
Jason Karlin, Patrick Galbraith, and Shunsuke Nozawa, eds., Japanese Media and Popular Culture: An Open-Access Digital Initiative of the University of Tokyo, An Open-Access Digital Initiative of the University of Tokyo, 2020, [Peer-reviewed]
English, Research institution

Online trolling and mutual forgetting　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　
Shunsuke Nozawa
Makiko Takekuro, ed., Discordance in Interaction: A Linguistic Anthropological View of Disharmony and Conflict. Tokyo: Hitsuji Shobo., 2018
Japanese

Language characterization: ludic translation and citationality　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　
Shunsuke Nozawa
Toshiyuki Sadanobu, ed., Interdisciplinary Explorations of the Concept of “Character. ” Tokyo: Sanseido, 2018
Japanese

Tearful Sojourns and Tribal Wives: Primitivism, kinship, suffering, and salvation on Japanese and British reality television
Christopher Ball, Shunsuke Nozawa
AMERICAN ETHNOLOGIST, 43, 2, 243, 257, WILEY, May 2016, [Peer-reviewed]
English, Scientific journal, The Japanese and British reality television programs Tearful Sojourns and Tribal Wives both feature protagonists' adventures and residence in "tribal societies." Each program constructs different primitivist images through distinct tropes of kinship; Tearful Sojourns fetishizes filiation and consanguinity, while Tribal Wives fetishizes marriage and affinity. The emphasis on descent and affinity reflects and contributes to cultural kinship crises-the breakdown of filial piety in Japan and of marriage in the United Kingdom-felt among their viewers. The shows subtly manipulate images of kinship, the primitive, and suffering to generate a globally mediatized primitivist discourse that purports to therapeutically help audiences find in the primitive Other something they have lost, providing a path to redemption. This discourse contributes in turn to popular perceptions of anthropology.

Life encapsulated: Addressivity in Japanese life writing
Shunsuke Nozawa
LANGUAGE & COMMUNICATION, 46, 95, 105, PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD, Jan. 2016, [Peer-reviewed]
English, Scientific journal, This paper explores the 'graphic artifacts' (Hull, 2012) of jibunshi ('personal history'), Japanese life writing, as semiotic time capsuling. By semiotic time capsuling, I mean a material process of effacement and resurfacing that mediates 'non-adjacent timescales' (Lemke, 2000). I focus on one grassroots literacy movement (original formulator of the genre name, jibunshi) and its ideology of addressivity, a fantasy of tele-communication that conjures up other times, other lives, and other values. The movement's practical philosophy of the life-historical 'record' as a time capsule-like sign addressed to distanced addressees offers its participants an unlikely tool for politicizing everyday life against hegemonic nationalist nostalgia. (C) 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

Review: Aging and Loss: Mourning and Maturity in Contemporary Japan
Nozawa Shunsuke
ANTHROPOLOGICAL QUARTERLY, 89, 1, 319, 324, 2016, [Invited]

Ensoulment and effacement in Japanese voice acting
Shunsuke Nozawa
Patrick Galbraith and Jason Karlin, eds., Media Convergence in Japan. Kinema Club., 169, 199, 2016, [Peer-reviewed]
In book

Phatic Traces: Sociality in Contemporary Japan
Nozawa Shunsuke
ANTHROPOLOGICAL QUARTERLY, 88, 2, 373, 400, 2015, [Peer-reviewed]

Characterization
Shunsuke Nozawa
Semiotic Review, 3, n.pag, 2013, [Peer-reviewed]

The gross face and virtual fame: Semiotic mediation in Japanese virtual communication
Shunsuke Nozawa
First Monday, 17, 3, n.pag, First Monday, 05 Mar. 2012, [Peer-reviewed]
English, Scientific journal, This article examines an emerging art of self-fashioning and sociality in Japanese-language virtual communication. Through an ethnographic exploration I argue that crucial to the structure and experience of Japanese virtual communication are acts of opacity. People in the Japanese virtual mobilize elaborate techniques of material camouflage and anonymity to effectively conceal their body and obscure their identity. They are normatively faceless. I offer this ethnography to suggest that these acts of obfuscation, the presentation of the self-in-disguise in everyday life, force us to reorganize our own modernist epistemological framework. Treating acts of opacity in the Japanese virtual not as a question of presence, secrecy, and truth but instead as themselves a complex social project, this article aims to parse out competing ideologies of communication in the contemporary culture of media. I will address these ideologies as they inform a set of interconnected categories such as anonymity, privacy, and personhood, which are themselves deeply couched in modernist epistemological terms.

Discourses of the coming: ignorance, forgetting, and prolepsis in Japanese life-historiography　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　
Shunsuke Nozawa
Casey High, Ann Kelly, and Jonathan Mair, eds., Anthropology of Ignorance: an Ethnographic Approach . New York & Basingstoke: Palgrave McMillan, 55, 85, 2012, [Peer-reviewed]
In book

The meaning of life: Regimes of textuality and memory in Japanese personal historiography
Shunsuke Nozawa
LANGUAGE & COMMUNICATION, 27, 2, 153, 177, PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD, Apr. 2007, [Peer-reviewed]
English, Scientific journal, This paper explores cultural logics of memory-making and textuality as manifested through discursive practices in Japanese "personal historiography". It proposes a sufficient conceptualization of the textuality of reading and writing for sociocultural analysis of memory and history from a pragmatic semiotic perspective. Through close examination of two cases of text-making, I identify writing not just as a tool for decontextualization; rather, or additionally, I demonstrate its functions to destabilize or create contexts, in particular contexts of memory-making. This view of writing allows for a perspective that sees the use and production of personal histories as a proleptic act, the one that foreshadows the ways in which texts written as historical account may be recontextualized in future contexts of reading within imagined and actual trajectories of circulation. The analysis based on this perspective reveals the central assumptions and their ironical workings in the discourse and practice of Japanese personal historiography, regarding a distinct kind of self-fashioning, memory-making, and historical consciousness. (c) 2006 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

Review: Vicarious language: Gender and linguistic modernity in Japan.
Nozawa Shunsuke
ANTHROPOLOGICAL QUARTERLY, 80, 1, 295, 299, 2007, [Invited]

Texture, Everyday/Life, Effacement　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　
Shunsuke Nozawa, Eureka: Poetry and Criticism, 55, 7, 262, 2023, [Invited]
Japanese

Refashioning Gendered Language and Body Among Japanese Youth at University Drag (Josou) Contests
宮崎 あゆみ, 野澤 俊介, フルカワ ギャビン, 日本文化人類学会研究大会発表要旨集, 2018, 0, 2018
In this paper, we explore the discourse and performance of <i>josou</i>, 'men dressing as women,' based on our ongoing qualitative research on participants in university <i>josou</i> contests. We argue that these participants turn <i>josou</i> into diverse technologies of the self (Foucault 1988) through refashioning their own language and body and mobilizing a network of expertise and social relations for their labor of transformation., 日本文化人類学会, Japanese

Events of Affect : Interface, Liveness, and Phaticity
野澤 俊介, 難波 阿丹, 難波 純也, 仁井田 千絵, 近藤 和都, 東京大学大学院情報学環情報学研究. 調査研究編 = Research survey reports in information studies. Interfaculty initiative in information studies, the University of Tokyo, 33, 33, 1, 30, 30 Mar. 2017
東京大学大学院情報学環, Japanese

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, 19, 2, 93, 97, 2017
The Japanese Association of Sociolinguistic Sciences, Japanese

交感性、指標性、言語イデオロギー:引き金と握手
野澤 俊介, 日本文化人類学会研究大会発表要旨集, 2016, 0, B04, 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。, 日本文化人類学会

Phaticity: contact and its allure
Shunsuke Nozawa, Anthropology News, 55, 11, 2014

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]

Characterization and imagined languages　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　
Shunsuke Nozawa
Kyarachters: On the Other Side of Narrative, 30 Apr. 2023, English
28 Apr. 2023 - 30 Apr. 2023, [Invited]

Signs of improper contact: harassment, triggers, and institutional wellbeing　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　
Shunsuke Nozawa
Anthropology of Japan in Japan, 03 Dec. 2022, Oral 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]

Socialization to contact and the value of talk in celebrity culture　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　
Shunsuke Nozawa
American Association of Applied Linguistics, 12 Mar. 2019, Oral presentation

Real nobodies: characterizing ordinary people　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　
Shunsuke Nozawa
American Anthropological Association, 15 Nov. 2018, English, Oral presentation
[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
[Domestic Conference]

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 grag (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]

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]

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　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　
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]

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]