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Frank Mondelli @frankmondelli.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

The other day I spoke on teaching Japanese video games at the Teaching Asian Pop Culture Forum at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Association for Asian Studies (MARAAS) Conference! The talk was a broad overview of different ways games can enhance a variety of classes, not just game classes. Main points:

A photo of me (Frank Mondelli) in a suit giving a talk in front of an audience. Next to me is a slide with a screenshot from the game "Super Mario Maker 2" with the headline "What Kind of Tools?" and two bullet points which read "Game Development" and "Classroom Objects".

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Frank Mondelli @frankmondelli.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

So happy to see so many amazing people coming over. I look forward to all of the discussions to come!

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Frank Mondelli @frankmondelli.bsky.social · 06/08/2024

Dr. Wayne Tan's recent book "Blind in Early Modern Japan: Disability, Medicine, and Identity" is destined to be a go-to text in Japanese studies and disability studies/history. What can early modern blind guilds tell us about contemporary society? See my new review here: doi.org/10.1093/jhma...

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Blind in Early Modern Japan: Disability, Medicine, and Identity, Wei Yu and Wayne Tan

In this stimulating new work, Wei Yu Wayne Tan opens by posing a question that will reverberate throughout the book: “What did it mean to be blind in Tokug

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Frank Mondelli @frankmondelli.bsky.social · 06/08/2024

My review of @trilliz.bsky.social's "In Case of Emergency: How Technologies Mediate Crisis and Normalize Inequality" is now out in the Winterthur Portfolio! This fascinating book will make you deeply consider everyday emergency systems' entanglements with power and inequity. doi.org/10.1086/730256

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Elizabeth Ellcessor. In Case of Emergency: How Technologies Mediate Crisis and Normalize Inequality. New York: New York University Press, 2022. vii+207 pp.; 11 black-and-white illustrations, notes, in...

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Frank Mondelli @frankmondelli.bsky.social · 28/06/2024

Another new publication: "Visible Vowels and Listening Limbs: Assistive Erasure in Japanese Publics." This one is published in the Osiris journal for this year: Disability and the History of Science, co-edited by @jaivirdi.com, Mara Mills, and Sara F. Rose. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

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Visible Vowels and Listening Limbs : Assistive Erasure in Japanese Publics: Osiris: Vol 39

Abstract In the fifteen years after World War II, some Japanese schoolteachers and technologists sought to create a new kind of assistive technology for deafness and hearing impairment: tactile and vi...

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Frank Mondelli @frankmondelli.bsky.social · 28/06/2024

Research publication alert! I've got two new articles out. The first is "Putting Virtual Reality to Disability Activism: Co-Creation and Intersectional Pedagogical Usage in Japan" co-written with the late Mark Bookman and Setsuko Yokoyama. www.scienceopen.com/hosted-docum...

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Putting Virtual Reality to Disability Activism : Co-Creation and Intersectional Pedagogical Usage in Japan

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Jaipreet Virdi @jaivirdi.com · 28/09/2023

After a two year delay...I've submitted the revised manuscript of Book 2, titled "The Deafness Problem in Modern Britain" 🎊 #histSTM #histsci #Academia #DisHist #DeafHistory #Book #Writing #Author #histmed

A pile of papers making up a book manuscript with the abovementioned title.

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Frank Mondelli @frankmondelli.bsky.social · 13/09/2023

Set up a little station in my faculty office for Japanese chess (shogi). The first step in trying to build an inviting space for students and colleagues alike!

A smiling half-Latinx half-Italian male-presenting person in a dark green suit, white shirt, and yellow patterned tie sits in front of a cloth green shogi board with light wooden pieces. He is holding a single piece with one hand and has the other hand stretched out towards the camera in an invitational gesture.

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Frank Mondelli @frankmondelli.bsky.social · 10/09/2023

I wrote a review of Wayne Tan's recent "Blind in Early Modern Japan: Disability, Medicine, and Identity" for the Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences. It's an excellent book and will be of interest to scholars across STS, #histsci and more academic.oup.com/jhmas/advanc...

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Blind in Early Modern Japan: Disability, Medicine, and Identity. Wei Yu and Wayne Tan

In this stimulating new work, Wei Yu Wayne Tan opens by posing a question that will reverberate throughout the book: “What did it mean to be blind in Tokugawa s

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Frank Mondelli @frankmondelli.bsky.social · 09/09/2023

Hi all! Thrilled to be here. I'm an Assistant Prof at the U of Delaware. I work on the material and cultural politics of tech + media + disability in Japan, such as assistive technology, videogames, and traditional objects (like Japanese chess sets!). Thanks to @jaivirdi.bsky.social for the invite!

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