Dr Lucy Fraser
Japanese Major Convenor
Senior Lecturer
School of Languages and Cultures
+61 7 336 56436
Researcher biography
Lucy Fraser is a Lecturer in Japanese at the School of Languages and Cultures, St Lucia campus, UQ. Her research interests include depictions of animal-human relationships in Japanese fiction, fairy tales and fairy tale retellings in Japanese and English, and ideas of gender--especially the figure of the girl--in contemporary Japanese literature, manga, film, and television. She is also interested in editing and translation of literature and literary criticism.
Books
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.
Aoyama, Tomoko and Fraser, Lucy (2017). Anime Japanese : course reader for JAPN3130. rev. ed. ed. Brisbane: University of Queensland. School of Languages and Cultures.
Book Chapters
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.
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
Aoyama, Tomoko, Kawasaki, Kenko and Fraser, Lucy (2020). From Fukushima to Hiroshima: Teaching Social Engagement through Manga. In Masami Toku and Hiromi Tsuchiya Dollase (Ed.), Manga!: Visual Pop-Culture in ARTS Education (pp. 149-157) Viseu, Portugal: InSEA Publications.
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 (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.
King, Emerald and Fraser, Lucy (2010). An Interview with Sakumi Yoshino. U.S. - Japan Women's Journal, 38, 113-132.
Fraser, Lucy (2010). The metamorphosis of female desire: Contemporary Japanese imaginings of "The Little Mermaid". East Asia Forum, 13, 24-35.
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.