Warren Stanislaus

Warren A. Stanislaus is a Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow for Global Perspectives on Society (GPS) at NYU Shanghai. He received his DPhil (PhD) in history from the University of Oxford (Pembroke College). Warren is interested in how global cultural flows across national borders shape emotions, identities and popular culture. In particular, employing transnational approaches to modern and contemporary society, his work explores forces of globalization from below. Focusing on media and the politics of popular culture, Warren specializes in research that examines Japan’s transnational connectivity with East Asia and the wider world.

Conducting archival research in Tokyo, his first major project looked at transmedia networks of subversive humor and laughter in late nineteenth century Japan. He has also published a prize-winning journal article on the impact of Japanese pop culture and technologies on Black life and sound in contemporary Britain. He is currently expanding this work on Afro-Asian sonic exchanges to consider the growth and refashioning of rap music and cultures on Chinese social media platforms. Warren is also exploring the development of Japan’s emerging role as a tourist host nation and is especially interested in inbound tourism flows and related investment to Japan from China. This builds on his experience at a Japanese travel agency and his previous work as a project manager at the Tokyo-based think tank, Asia Pacific Initiative, where he directed an international working group and bilingual book publication on Japan’s soft power.

Originally from South East London, UK, Warren studied, lived and worked in Tokyo for 14 years. Warren speaks fluent Japanese (JLPT N1, 2012) and holds an advanced-level certification in Mandarin Chinese (HSK 5, 2021). Prior to joining NYU Shanghai, he was a lecturer at Rikkyo University’s Global Liberal Arts Program and a visiting researcher at Keio University.

Select Publications

• Stanislaus, Warren A. “Laughing at Civilisation: Charles Wirgman’s Japan Punch and the Reopening of Great Britain.” In Bremner L., Dotulong M., and Konishi S. (Eds.), Reopening the Opening of Japan: Transnational Approaches to Modern Japan and the Wider World. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2023.

• Stanislaus, Warren A. “From Cool Japan to Cold Japan: Grime Cyborgs in Black Britain.” Japan Forum (2022). Japanese translation:「クールジャパンからコールドジャパンへ―英国の黒きグライムサイボーグ」 *Journal article awarded the 2022 Ian Nish Prize by the British Association for Japanese Studies.

Education

• DPhil, History
  University of Oxford

• MPhil, Modern Japanese Studies
  University of Oxford

• BA, Liberal Arts
  国際基督教大学 International Christian University (ICU), Tokyo 

Research Interests

• East Asia

• Popular Culture

• Transnational History

• Afro-Asia

• Media