Keita Moore
Dissertation Title – Grand Designs: Videogames, Societal Time, and Developer Agency in Contemporary Japan.
ACADEMIC HISTORY:
- M.A., University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa in Asian Studies
- B.A., Colorado College in Asian Studies, Distinction in International Studies
ADVISOR:
PUBLICATIONS:
PANEL PRESENTATIONS:
2019 | “Shifting Political Gears: The Medial Politics of Metal Gear Solid,” 17th 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. |
RESEARCH PRESENTATIONS:
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 28th 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. |
OTHER ACADEMIC PRESENTATIONS:
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. |
GUEST LECTURES:
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. |
INTERPRETATION:
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 |
TEACHING EXPERIENCE:
- 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
ACADEMIC SERVICE:
- 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.
SELECTED AWARDS:
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:
- Sato Foundation Scholarship (2011-2012)
- U.S. Department of Education Scholarship (2011-2012)
Colorado College
- Phi Beta Kappa, Member (2011-Present)
- National Japanese Honor Society, Member (2011-Present)
- Fulbright Scholarship, Alternate Candidate (2011)
- Excellence in Asian Studies, Recipient (2011 & 2009)
- Japanese Language Award, Recipient (2009)
- Colorado College Gaylord Scholarship (2010)
- Colorado College Venture Grant for Independent Research (2010)
- Colorado College Presidential Merit Scholarship (2007-2011)