Amanda Kennell, Ph.D.

Every. single. research. trip.

Pre-trip: I will store my receipts in an organized fashion on my trip.

Mid-trip: *all receipts shoved in one suitcase pocket*

Post-trip, mid-writing/teaching/etc.: I live pretty cheaply, so the State department's per diem rate should cover everything... right?

Francis Fukuyama on Agentic AI and the Problem of Delegation We are going to delegate too much authority to machines...

Interesting talk on #AI by Francis Fukuyama. Not sure I agree that adopting the tech is the only way forward, but his take on agential AI has fascinating echoes for other technologies, like those that irritate me about my new(ish) car).

Rode the shinkansen through tsunami warnings to the first site of an #atomic bomb’s usage in war, and what do I find behind my hotel? Hiroshima’s #Alice Garden!

Bear-shaped donut and iced tea on a tray with an animatronic squirrel. Fake flowers & books in background.

Meet Little Bear Meister, home of tasty bear-shaped donuts & adorably squirrelly animatronics. Great accompaniment to the Kusama & Soseki museums :)
Stop on by: www.little-bear-meister.com

Taking a break from the heat wave to let everyone know I'll be speaking about media, climate change, and Bungo Stray Dogs tomorrow at Sophia University. Come on by if you're in the area!

Catching up on the news during a late lunch break was a mistake.

Calling my Rep's office to ask what he was doing about it: also a mistake.

Now working under shadow of looming third mistake...

Illuminating thread about publishing that explains why students have been more aggressive in pushing for me to help them not pay for books these days.

Travel websites: This hotel is perfect for travellers!
Japan scholars: Cool, but what train line is it on?
Website: So close to Museum A & Tower B!
Scholars: Trains though?
Website (in small gray italics): Station You've Never Heard of Z
Scholars: ... so, prob'ly not getting limited expresses then

Swallowtail Editorial Services Comprehensive editing and compassionate coaching for academics and nonfiction writers

If anyone has gotten lost in their summer writing🥲 now that the semester's over, Dr. Sophia Walker just set up a developmental editing service that'll help you out. Good luck!

Thank you!

The Chicago Sun-Times published an AI-written summer reading feature that only featured fake books.

That'll be one more link for my folder of "materials that warn students about using #AI," thank you.🙃

YouTube video by SHOCHIKU animeチャンネル【公式】 劇場アニメ『不思議の国でアリスと –Dive in Wonderland-』特報｜8月29日（金）より全国公開

Interesting looking new animated Alice film coming this August... just days after I will be heading back to the U.S.🥲

Script's by Kakihara Yuko (of #ApothecaryDiaries).
#AliceinWonderland #anime

Job search at Notre Dame: East Asian Studies and Education Librarian.

Come join me and a vibrant, growing group of East Asianists at an innovative private institution that is dedicated to studying the whole globe. #academia #jobs #japan #korea #china

Digital Age Symposium

Ecstatic to flip from this week's power outages and tornado warnings to a symposium on #EastAsia and #digital technology, featuring @paularcurtis.bsky.social, @jonabel.bsky.social, and many more awesome speakers.

Amanda Kennell, University of Notre Dame - Understanding Who Godzilla Really Is - Godzilla is exciting on the big screen, but what’s the real meaning of the character? Amanda Kennell, assistant professor of East Asian languages and cultures at the University of Notre Dame, looks in...

Welcome to everyone who heard me on the radio this week. If you're interested in learning more about #Godzilla and the #environment, Jeffrey Angles, Sean Rhoads, and Brooke McCorkle have published fabulous books on the subject.

Sometimes you go eco-friendly for the sake of the environment, sometimes because the products are higher quality.

At other times, it's cause your cat suddenly started eating plastic mesh bath poufs.😿

Mirrors sequence also fascinating; dancers held large mirrors so as to give audience an unusual perspective on the dance that was beautiful (3/3)

Most interesting dance=Lobster Quadrille

v. flexible costumes & dancers made for wide variety of imagistic citations - everything from flamenco to Walrus and Carpenter to A Handmaid's Tale (2/3)

Saw Momix's #Alice today - great fun! Abstract take on Alice in Wonderland - Alice enters Wonderland in 1st dance, then pops in and out of dances featuring mix of recognizable Wonderland characters + new characters that match theme

Give it a shot if you get a chance.
(1/3)

Gendered Memories Gendered Memories: An Imaginary Museum for Ding Ling and Chinese Female Revolutionary Martyrs takes readers on a journey through the lives and legacies of Chinese female revolutionary martyrs, reveali...

My colleague Xian Wang's new book about China's female revolutionaries just came out - and it's available online for free! The link below will take you there :)

Finishing the first week of the new semester and reflecting on my latest #NewBooksNetwork interview. @mimirellaz.bsky.social went deep into Japan's #mystery tradition to talk about boy detectives & economic malaise. Fascinating stuff!

Alice in Japanese Wonderlands: Translation, Adaptation, Mediation (Asia Pop!) Amazon.com: Alice in Japanese Wonderlands: Translation, Adaptation, Mediation (Asia Pop!): 9780824895600: Kennell, Amanda, Alexy, Allison: Books

If you saw the announcement - "Anime studio P.A. Works announced on Friday that it is producing Japan's first anime film adaptation of Alice in Wonderland"

...Read the new book by @akennell.bsky.social

With a 14-page appendix listing *other* Japanese adaptations!

amzn.to/42egP0Y

May it continue in the new year!

Just posted a run-down of my 2024 activities. I did so much that writing it all up has *me* feeling run down!

Thank you very much!

Congratulations to the participants of #RobotX 2024. The award winners have now been announced:

Thank you for letting me know! It's hard to keep track of all the collaborations outside of Japan.

Looking forward to speaking about manga, mysteries, and Alice in Wonderland for the Smith Science Fiction and Fantasy Society this afternoon. It's so nostalgic :)

Hello, everyone. For those of you who don't know me, see here for:
*Bungo Stray Dogs
*games like Cosmology of Kyoto
*zoo merchandise critiques
*Alice in Wonderland
*Godzilla
*and other Japanese pop culture/media stuff

I'd appreciate being added too. Thank you!