Emerald L. King
エメラルド・キング
Lecturer in Humanities 上級講師, University of Tasmania
women writers, shojo manga, girls culture, cosplay studies, masochism
Japanese, English
Australia
Interested in most things dark and twisty, Emerald L King is Lecturer in Humanities at University of Tasmania. Her research interests include violence in text, masochistic theory, kimono in Japanese literature, costume representation in anime and manga, and cosplay in Japan and Australia. Her work ties these disparate areas together with an overarching interest in costume and word.
Her most recent work on cosplay and gender is guided by her experiences as an award-winning cosplayer. Since 2017 she has volunteered as a translator and interpreter at the World Cosplay Summit championships in Japan, and in 2020 she was named a WCS Support Ambassador. Emerald is the current Australian WCS Representative.
- Lecturer in Japanese, La Trobe University (Australia), 2018-2021
- Head of Japanese, Victoria University of Wellington (NZ), 2013-2018
“Creating the Body Beautiful Cosplay: Crossdressing, Cosplay, and Hyper Femininity/Hyper Masculinity” in Gender in Japanese Popular Culture: Rethinking Masculinities and Femininities edited by Sirpa Salenius, Palgrave Macmillan 2023. pp 209-240 https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-12942-1_8
“Gotta Sew Them All—A Case Study of Pokémon Legends: Arceus Trainer Costumes and Historical Plausibility” Journal of Asia-Pacific Pop Culture, Volume 8, Number 1, 52-70, 2023 https://doi.org/10.5325/jasiapacipopcult.8.1.0052
“Red capes, dog gods and demon lords: Making historically plausible Inuyasha cosplay costumes” Studies in Costume & Performance, Volume 7, Special Issue Costume and Fairy Tales, 227-240, Dec 2022 https://doi.org/10.1386/scp_00076_1
“Cosplay Everywhere: Costume Diplomacy at the World Cosplay Summit” in Introducing Japanese Popular Culture Second Edition edited by Alisa Freeman, Routledge 2023. pp 130-138
“An Empress’s Wardrobe Unlock’d: Empress Masako and Japan’s Princess Fashions” in Fashion, Women and Power edited by Denise N Rall, Intellect 2022. pp 157-174.“Pricking Pain Surrounds Us: Restraining, Shaping, and Taming the Body in Hebi ni piasu” in Forms of the Body in Contemporary Japanese Society, Literature, and Culture edited by Irina Holca a
“Top Model: cosplaying Ito Junji's Tomie,” Refractory, 35, (October) pp. 1-16. 2021
https://refractoryjournal.net/top-model-cosplaying-ito-junjis-tomie/
“La Robe à la Française et la Robe l’Odalisque: wearing women’s clothing in The Rose of Versailles”, Studies in Costume & Performance, 6 (1) Article 19 2021 https://doi.org/10.1386/scp_00034_1
“Performing Gender: Cosplay and Otaku Cultures and Spaces” in Routledge Companion to Gender and Japanese Culture edited by Lucy Fraser, Mark Pendleton and Jennifer Coates, Routledge, 2019. pp 279-288. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315179582
“Absent Mothers, Constructed Families and Rabbit Babies” Intersections: Gender and Sexuality in Asia and the Pacific, Issue 40, January 2017 http://intersections.anu.edu.au/issue40/king2.html
“Tangled Hair and Broken Bodies: Remaking Women and Technology in Japanese Gothic Horror Tradition from The Tale of Genji to Ringu” in Gothic Afterlives: Reincarnations of Horror in Film and Popular Media edited by Lorna Piatti-Fanell. Lexington, 2019. pp 199-212.
3/22/2024