BA(Nanzan), MA, MS, PhD (Kansas)
Lecturer in Gender Studies and Sociology
Contact details
Room 6C10, Richardson Building
Tel +64 3 479 5413
Email: yuki.watanabe@otago.ac.nz
Yuki's research interests include gender roles in mass media, contemporary Japan, and computer-mediated communication. She has taught numerous papers in Sociology, Media Studies, Japanese Culture, and Japanese Language. Yuki moved to Dunedin from Texas in 2013.
Teaching
Course co-ordinator for:
SOCI 205: Social Inequality
GEND 207 / 307: Masculinities
HUMS 502: Research Methods in the Humanities
I teach sections of:
GEND 102: Bodies, Sexualities and Selves
GEND 206 / 306: Gender, Work and Consumer Culture
Publications
Watanabe, Y. (2015, May). Empowered or exploited? The case of AKB48 and girl idol groups in Japan. Department of Sociology, Gender & Social Work, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand. [Department Seminar].
