Keita Moore

Keita Moore

Specialization: Contemporary Japanese and Korean Media

Email:kcmoore@ucsb.edu

Dissertation Title – Grand Designs: Videogames, Societal Time, and Developer Agency in Contemporary Japan.

ACADEMIC HISTORY:

2019	“Shifting Political Gears: The Medial Politics of Metal Gear Solid,” 17^th Annual Cultural Studies Conference. Tulane University, Louisiana.
2019	“Shifting Political Gears: The Medial Politics of Metal Gear Solid,” at Global Asias 5 Conference. Pennsylvania State University, Pennsylvania.
2017	“Getting Away with Murder: Ludic Violence in the Japanese Context,” at the Annual American Ethnological Society’s Conference. Stanford University, California.

2019	“Fast Times in FINAL FANTASY VII: Modern Anxieties, Postmodern Hopes,” at the Digital Games Research Association Conference (DiGRA). Kyoto, Japan.
2019	“Warped Reflections: Postmodern Anxiety in FINAL FANTASY VII,” at Imaging East Asia UC Santa Barbara Graduate Conference. Santa Barbara California.
2018	“(Un)Lucky Seven: Uneasy Postmodernism in FINAL FANTASY VII,” at Mechademia Conference on Asian Popular Culture. Minneapolis, Minnesota
2018	“An Aspiration to Organic Sociality: Between Marxism and Posthumanism,” at Lukács and the World: Rethinking Global Circuits of Cultural Production. Santa Barbara, California.
2017	“Going Backwards to Move Forwards: Popular Memory in Post-Authoritarian Korean War Films,” at the 28^th Annual School of Pacific and Asian Studies Graduate Student Conference. Honolulu, Hawai’i
2016	“Back to the Present: Towards a Narratology of Gōsuto Torikku,” at the Mechademia Conference on Asian Popular Culture. Minneapolis, Minnesota.

2020	Power Play: Video Games, Empire, and Representation in Japan,” in Japan 165: Popular Culture in Japan. University of California, Santa Barbara.
2019	“The Politics of Japanese Media: The State of Violence,” in Japan 25: Violence and the State in Japan. Popular Culture in Japan. University of California, Santa Barbara.
2018	“Looking Ahead: The Robotic, Cyborgian and Natural Futures of Japan,” in Japan 165: Popular Culture in Japan. University of California, Santa Barbara.
2018	“The Politics of Japanese Media: Placing the J-Game,” in Japan 165: Popular Culture in Japan. University of California, Santa Barbara.
2018	“What’s ‘Japanese’ about Videogames? Problematizing the National Origins of New Media,” in East Asia 120: Popular Culture in Japan. University of California, Irvine.

2020	Miyajima, Tatsuo. “Tatsuo Miyajima: In Conversation,” a public lecture at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara.
2020	Miyajima, Tatsuo. “Miyajima’s LED art illuminates the Santa Barbara Museum of Art,” for KRCW public access radio, Los Angeles.
2019	Kondo, Aisuke. “Diaspora Memoria: Performance Art Viewing and Talk,” a lecture at the University of California, Santa Barbara

Japanese 6 (2nd Year Language): East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies, Spring 2019
Violence and the State in Japan: East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies, Winter 2019
Japanese 4 (2nd Year Language): East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies, Fall 2018

Parameters of Play Research Focus Group: Co-convener of an Interdisciplinary Research Focus Group dedicated to the study of ludic media. September 2019-June 2020.
Graduate Student Association Delegate: November 2018-Present
Graduate Student Japanese Language Club: Founder. October 2017-Present.

University of California, Santa Barbara

Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Postdoctoral Fellowship for Research in Japan (2020-2021)
Graduate Research Accelerator Award (2019)
Central Fellowship (2017-2023)
Kathryn W. Davis Fellow for Peace at Middlebury (2018)

University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa:

Summer Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship (2017)
University of Hawai’i Center for Japanese Studies Graduate Student Travel Award (2016)
Seidensticker Award for SPAS Graduate Student Conference (2016)
Tasuku Harada Graduate Scholarship in Japanese Studies (2016-17)
Center for Japanese Studies Fellowship (2016-17)
Starr Foundation Graduate Fellowship in Asian Studies (2015-17)
Asian Studies Departmental Merit Scholarship (2015-2017)

Inter-University Center for Japanese Language Studies:

Colorado College

2018	“From Translation to Transnationalism: Considering Localization from an Industry and Academic Perspective,” at Graphic Voices. Santa Barbara, California.
2018	“Accosted in Translation: Japanese Language as Subcultural Capital in Fan Communities,” at Parameters of Play: Difficulty, Distinction & Criticism in Videogames. Santa Barbara, California.
2017	“The Residue of History: Nationhoods of Post-Authoritarian Korean War Film,” at the UCSB Graduate Student Research Symposium in Korean Studies. Santa Barbara, California.