https://www.warrenstanislaus.com/home daily 1.0 2026-04-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e3470b0d9c0f230d9e22c8a/4a639226-ef31-4697-a828-b83fbebe196d/Capture+One+Catalog0211.JPG Home - Warren A. Stanislaus, PhD ウォレン・スタニスロース　沃伦　워렌 Dr. Warren A. Stanislaus is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of International Studies at Showa Women's University. He received a PhD in History from the University of Oxford (Pembroke College) and was a Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow for Global Perspectives on Society at NYU Shanghai, China. He is a cultural and transnational historian. Originally from South East London, he has spent 14+ years in Tokyo and 3 years in Shanghai. Warren speaks fluent Japanese (JLPT N1, 2012), holds a HSK 5 level certificate in Mandarin Chinese (2021), and TOPIK I-Level 2 certificate in Korean (2025). Previously, he worked as a foreign policy researcher at Asia Pacific Initiative, a Tokyo-based think tank. He is a graduate of ICU, Tokyo (BA) and the University of Oxford (MPhil, St Antony’s College). Alongside his academic work, he is completing a part-time distance MSc in TESOL with a specialisation in English-Medium Instruction at the University of St Andrews. In 2019, he was named No.3 in the UK’s Top 10 Rare Rising Stars awards. ✴︎Check out my prize-winning journal article in the Japan Forum ✴︎Check out my public talk at the Asia Society Agent: Emma Bal at Madeleine Milburn Literary Agency https://www.warrenstanislaus.com/writing daily 0.75 2023-12-27 https://www.warrenstanislaus.com/englishabout daily 0.75 2026-04-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e3470b0d9c0f230d9e22c8a/f7aa5bd9-be7e-4d61-a92d-728a935a11a4/DSC06941.JPG about I am an Associate Professor in the Faculty of International Studies, Department of International Liberal Arts at Showa Women’s University in Japan. I completed a DPhil (PhD) in history at the University of Oxford (Pembroke College) and previously held a position as a Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow for Global Perspectives on Society (GPS) at NYU Shanghai. As a researcher, I employ transnational approaches to modern and contemporary society to explore forces of globalisation from below. Focusing on media and the politics of popular culture, I specialise in research that examines Japan’s transnational connectivity with East Asia and the wider world. I have teaching experience across multiple universities in Japan, the UK and an American university in China. I was previously a visiting researcher at Keio University’s Faculty of Law (Mita). During my 4 years as a lecturer at Rikkyo University’s Global Liberal Arts Program, I developed the course “Afro-Japanese Digital Visions,” as featured in Critical Asian Studies and the Times Higher Education for its innovative approaches to digital humanities and public engagement. Originally from London, I spent 14+ years in Tokyo as a student and professional. I speak fluent Japanese (JLPT 1, 2012) and hold a HSK 5 level certificate in Mandarin Chinese (2021), and TOPIK I-Level 2 certificate in Korean (2025). I previously served as a Researcher and Project Manager at Asia Pacific Initiative, a Tokyo-based think tank, where I led an international study and bilingual book publication on Japan's soft power in the 21st century. Building on my professional background in international higher education management with time as a Project Officer at the British Council Tokyo, I also design and coordinate innovative academia-industry partnerships that have developed student internships and career placements. I received a BA in Liberal Arts from International Christian University (ICU) in Tokyo where my dissertation won the 2011 Friends of ICU Award (Kiyoko Cho Academic Award in Asian Studies). In 2013 I completed an MPhil in Modern Japanese Studies from the University of Oxford’s Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies (St Antony’s College). In 2019 I came 3rd in the UK’s Top 10 Rare Rising Stars awards and in 2018 I won 3rd prize in the Sir Peter Parker Awards for Spoken Business Japanese. Most recently, my article published in the Japan Forum journal was awarded the 2022 Ian Nish Prize for the best article by an early career scholar by the British Association for Japanese Studies. I have served as the President of the Oxford Alumni Club of Japan since 2014. My research has been awarded funding from the Japan Foundation, Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation, Tanaka Foundation, Toyota-Shi Trevelyan Trust, Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation, Pembroke College, St Antony’s College and the University of Oxford’s Faculty of History. Get in touch by email and I can send you my full CV. Alternatively, take a look at my LinkedIn profile. https://www.warrenstanislaus.com/japaneseabout daily 0.75 2026-04-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e3470b0d9c0f230d9e22c8a/8288d732-cb2e-4f32-895f-7425daeb8b91/220616_041.jpg 日本語 - ウォレン・スタニスロース 英国・ロンドン生まれ。日本在住14年。英国名門私立校卒業。国際基督教大学教養学部卒業。オックスフォード大学日産日本研究所にて現代日本研究修士課程修了。オックスフォード大学歴史学部博士課程修了。博士（歴史）。新卒や第二新卒の就職活動で三井物産、三菱UFJ銀行、デロイト、ユニクロ等から内定を得たが研究と高等教育の道を選んだ。ブリティッシュ・カウンシル日本（教育推進・連携部プロジェクト・オフィサー）、一般財団法人アジア・パシフィック・イニシアティブ（研究員兼 Why Japan Matters（日本再発見）プロジェクトスタッフディレクター）、立教大学 Global Liberal Arts Program (GLAP) 兼任講師、慶應義塾大学法学部訪問研究員、ニューヨーク大学上海 (NYU Shanghai) Global Perspectives on Society (GPS) 特任助教などを経て現職。2026年より昭和女子大学国際学部国際教養学科准教授を勤める。 researchmap.jp: warren_stanislaus 日本語によるメールはこちらでどうぞ。 もっと見る Stanislaus, W. 2022. “From Cool Japan to Cold Japan: Grime Cyborgs in Black Britain.” Japan Forum. 和訳はこちら：「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」（2022年度 英国日本研究協会　Ian Nish Prize を受賞） アジア・ソサエティ：「日本のソフト・パワー　クールジャパンからコールドジャパンへ」 国際交流基金の日本研究フェロー対談：「What’s ダイバーシティ？」 立教大学GLAP 2020年秋学期の科目紹介動画：「日本と黒人の出会い」 学生プロジェクトVR展紹介動画：「日本と黒人の未来」 駐日英国大使館とのインタビュー：「英国のBlack History Month 理解を深める出発点は」 テレビ東京ゆうがたサテライト：「英 名門オックスフォード大　日本で働きたい学生なぜ急増？」 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e3470b0d9c0f230d9e22c8a/1622810422477-73980DVDNY827IKLXQCI/Screen+Shot+2021-06-04+at+21.35.31.png 日本語 - ICU入学案内「2022」（学部） 卒業生インタビュー https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e3470b0d9c0f230d9e22c8a/1625474356429-CB1BVO3QR685SOT76PDV/Picture1.png 日本語 - アジア・パシフィック・イニシアティブ 日本再発見プロジェクト スタッフディレクター (2015年) https://www.warrenstanislaus.com/chineseabout daily 0.75 2026-04-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e3470b0d9c0f230d9e22c8a/1581867580076-DVTEUG0R9REHQBXK2ACH/40379af9e3f5496a983f00804a20b5cf.jpeg 中文 - 沃伦 出生于英国伦敦，在日14年，并有两年多在华生活与工作经历。英国德威公学以后，日本东京的国际基督教大学文科学士。牛津大学日产日本研究所现代日本研究硕士。牛津大学历史学博士。现任牛津大学日本校友会主席。2019年8月，参加了华东师范大学为期一个月的英国大学生“体验动感中国”项目。考取汉语水平考试HSK5级 (2021年)。2019/4~2023/3，立教大学 Global Liberal Arts Program (GLAP) 讲师。2022/9~2023/7，庆应义塾大学法学部客座研究员，上海纽约大学全球视野下的社会(GPS)博士后（2023/8~2026/3）。现任昭和女子大学国际学部副教授（2026/4~)。 https://www.warrenstanislaus.com/teaching daily 0.75 2025-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e3470b0d9c0f230d9e22c8a/1c5e06d9-39bb-418e-9032-6017c867b90a/Japan+in+Asian+Context_Twitter.png teaching - This module will examine the global spread of East Asian pop cultures from the Cool Japan and Korean Wave phenomena to emerging narratives of a China Dream. The course will look at the multiple iterations and multidimensional nature of these “waves” that span music, food, fashion, anime, video games, film, television dramas, contents tourism, language education, digital technologies and social media. As a key aspect of this course, students will critically consider who popular culture is important to and why. In other words, we will identify how governments seek to leverage pop culture as part of a creative industries and nation branding strategy for soft power influence and economic growth. Or who or what gets to represent a nation at a certain point in time and who/what is excluded from the story. Conversely, we will also employ a bottom-up approach to explore a much more organic transnational flow of pop cultural goods as they are consumed, interpreted and repurposed by various individuals and communities. In particular, we will reflect on the role of pop culture within East Asia from such perspectives as stimulating flows of people, a regional cultural convergence and reconciliation. For the final project, students will step out into the “world-classroom” in order to conduct fieldwork and interviews to investigate the spread of the Korean Wave in Japan. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e3470b0d9c0f230d9e22c8a/1631780976568-EZ46JLBU3CX37G3WDXEK/Cultures+of+Resistance_Twitter.png teaching - This module examines cultural and intellectual life on the edges of Japanese society. Challenging popular ideas and exoticized images of perpetual harmony and unity without conflict, this course will traverse the Edo period up until the twentieth century postwar years in order to reveal diverse expressions of protest and opposition. In particular, the course will consider theories that help uncover unconventional sources of resistance such as laughter, play, art, millenarianism and popular music. Through employing this approach of viewing Japanese history from the peripheries, students will be introduced to major themes in the historiography of modern Japan and identify alternative or competing narratives. For the final assignment, rooted in their explorations of oppositional cultures, students will attempt to marry theory and practice by developing their own creative project that conceptualizes a present-day countercultural resistance in Japan. https://www.warrenstanislaus.com/media daily 0.75 2025-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e3470b0d9c0f230d9e22c8a/b0b31c1c-ebf6-4b1e-b4a8-57dea8a4ee42/Screenshot+2024-04-16+at+11.36.40.jpeg media https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e3470b0d9c0f230d9e22c8a/7a7e3584-ed35-4c70-82d3-66dc405ad3c4/Screenshot+2025-12-19+at+15.41.10.png media https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e3470b0d9c0f230d9e22c8a/1a53f0e7-684f-4579-b212-c25532580350/Screen+Shot+2023-12-15+at+14.29.43.png media https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e3470b0d9c0f230d9e22c8a/1615300072241-0O3EO76NDPWU1VAEKIWY/Screen+Shot+2021-03-08+at+21.30.12.png media https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e3470b0d9c0f230d9e22c8a/1609401442561-8CFQ3RZ3M95TQ2BTIXTS/The+Edge+%235+Warren+Stanislaus.jpg media https://www.warrenstanislaus.com/contact daily 0.75 2022-05-19 https://www.warrenstanislaus.com/speaking daily 0.75 2024-03-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e3470b0d9c0f230d9e22c8a/1011241e-ab47-4ceb-bbec-cd6a31d7ae9f/220616_112.jpg speaking ©2022 Taishi Yokotsuka for Asia Society Japan https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e3470b0d9c0f230d9e22c8a/1609388741874-KJWM0HH8ZEDASQ72MKGS/DSC01668.jpeg speaking https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e3470b0d9c0f230d9e22c8a/68ff8ea9-fb03-4966-9747-15142b008d53/DSC06096.JPG speaking https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e3470b0d9c0f230d9e22c8a/be91099e-83a8-4f89-b928-c9fdd7fbe8e9/Screen+Shot+2021-03-03+at+16.14.41.png speaking https://www.warrenstanislaus.com/publications daily 0.75 2024-05-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e3470b0d9c0f230d9e22c8a/a4ec97d6-782b-41b7-ba53-293c8046d1e9/16.png publications - Stanislaus, Warren A. 2022. “From Cool Japan to Cold Japan: Grime Cyborgs in Black Britain.” Japan Forum. doi: 10.1080/09555803.2022.2033300. Peer-Reviewed Journal Article Awarded 2022 Ian Nish Prize by BAJS Top 4 ‘Most Read’ article of all time in journal Featured in: The Japan Society UK Chairman’s Blog Complex TRENCH Royal Historical Society Blog Association for Asian Studies Blog Asia Society, Japan Digital Public Engagement content: Japanese Translation（和訳） Article Visualiser Spotify Playlist YouTube Playlist https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e3470b0d9c0f230d9e22c8a/ecb05ab2-7a6d-4a5a-aa6b-345b229dbe16/17.png publications - Stanislaus, Warren A. 2023. “Laughing at Civilisation: Charles Wirgman’s Japan Punch and the Reopening of Great Britain” in Reopening the Opening of Japan: Transnational Approaches to Modern Japan and the Wider World, 59-86. Leiden and Boston: Brill. doi.org/10.1163/9789004685208_004. Chapter in Edited Volume https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e3470b0d9c0f230d9e22c8a/0b98ca17-3900-4050-aaee-3248f879d0a4/15.png publications - Stanislaus, Warren A. 2022. “Examining Afro-Japanese Encounters Through Popular Music.” Teaching Media Quarterly, Vol.10, Issue 1: Teaching (with) Popular Music. Online Refereed Journal Article https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e3470b0d9c0f230d9e22c8a/08683fb6-96fe-4ab5-a84e-ca5ae6b35526/14.png publications - Stanislaus, Warren A. 2023. “Blackness, Japan, and English as a medium of instruction: Teaching Afro-Japanese Encounters in the university” in Multiculturalism, Language, and Race in English Education in Japan: Agency, Pedagogy, and Reckoning. Candlin & Mynard, 276–296. doi: 10.47908/26/11. Chapter in Edited Volume https://www.warrenstanislaus.com/cold-japan-article-visualiser daily 0.75 2022-03-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e3470b0d9c0f230d9e22c8a/bfb2be4e-2b5c-4a9e-a4fd-92c9965488dc/Cold+Japan+Animation.gif Cold Japan Article Visualiser [Article Visualiser] for “From Cool Japan to Cold Japan: Grime Cyborgs in Black Britain.” Created in collaboration with digital artist Jason Adenuga @jasonoia.