Dr Lucy Fraser
Japanese Discipline
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
Aoyama, Tomoko and Fraser, Lucy Anime Japanese : course reader for JAPN3130 rev. ed. ed. Brisbane: University of Queensland. School of Languages and Cultures, 2017.
Fraser, Lucy The pleasures of metamorphosis: Japanese and English fairy tale transformation of "The Little Mermaid". Detroit, MI, United States: Wayne State University Press, 2017.
Book Chapters
King, Emerald L and Fraser, Lucy (2017). Girls in lace dresses: the intersections of gothic in Japanese youth fiction and fashion. In Anna Jackson (Ed.), New directions in children's gothic: debatable lands (pp. 102-118) New York, NY United States: Routledge.
Fraser, Lucy (2015). Girls, old women and fairytale families in The Old Woman's Skin and Howl's Moving Castle. In Tomoko Aoyama, Laura Dales and Romit Dasgupta (Ed.), Configurations of family in contemporary Japan (pp. 65-76) Abington, Oxon, United Kingdom: Routledge.
Fraser, Lucy (2014). Translation of "Where is my place in the world? Early shojo manga portrayals of lesbianism" by Fujimoto Yukari. In Frenchy Lunning (Ed.), Mechademia 9: Origins (pp. 25-42) Minneapolis, MN, United States: University of Minnesota Press.
Journal Articles
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
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) Strange Tale of Panorama Island. 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) Women Adrift: The Literature of Japan's Imperial Body.. Asian Studies Review, 36 4: 567-568. doi:10.1080/10357823.2012.740919
Honda, Masuko, Fraser, Lucy and Aoyama, Tomoko (2010) The invalidation of gender in girls' Manga today, with a special focus on Nodame Cantabile. US Japan Women's Journal, 38 12-24.
Fraser, Lucy (2010) The metamorphosis of female desire: Contemporary Japanese imaginings of "The Little Mermaid". East Asia Forum, 13 24-35.
King, Emerald and Fraser, Lucy (2010) An Interview with Sakumi Yoshino. U.S. - Japan Women's Journal, 38 113-132.
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
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.