About Us
Dr. Mio Bryce
Subjects:
Japanese language, literature and manga/anime, including “JPN123:
Japan‘s Contemporary Culture through Manga”, "JPN223:
Manga and Representation of Identity”, “JPN323: Manga:
Global Imagery” and “JPN815: Manga and Anime”.
Academic qualifications:
PhD in Japanese classical literature (The Tale of Genji)
(University of Sydney).
Research interests:
Historical, socio-cultural and psychological issues depicted in
literature. She is currently involved in interdisciplinary research
into youth cultures, with particular focus on manga and anime,
in conjunction with the English Department at Macquarie University.
Publications:
Recent Refereed Publications:
Bryce, Mio (2008) Ayashi no Ceres: Mythological Past and Present in Manga and Anime", The Journal of the Oriental Society of Australia, pp.78-95.
Bryce, Mio (2008), "White Wings and Black Wings: Ambiguous Dichotomy in Manga and Anime", The International Journal of Diversity in Organisations, Communities and Nations, 7:6, pp.295-302.
Davis, Jason & Bryce, Mio (2008), "I Love you as you are: Marriages between Different Kinds", The International Journal of Diversity in Organisations, Communities and Nations, 7:6, pp.201-210.
Bryce, Mio (2007), “Another Half and/or Another Individual: Representation of Twins in Manga”, the International Journal of the Humanities, 5:11 pp.143-152.
McArthur, Ian and Bryce, Mio (2007), “Names and Perspectives in Sute-Obune: A Meiji-era Adaptive Translation of the Mary Braddon Mystery Novel, Diavola”, The International Journal of the Humanities.
Bryce, Mio (2006), “Fashioning a Spiritual Self in a Rational and Technological Society: Cultural Dichotomies in the Japanese animation Kiki’s Delivery Service”, CREArTA, pp.45 - 56, Centre for Research in Education and the Arts, UTS, Sydney.
M Bryce, Mio (2006), “Anime Haibane Renmei (Charcoal Feather Federation): An Enclave for the Hurt, Alienated Souls”, Papers: Explorations into Children's Literature, pp.71 - 76, School of Communication and Creative Arts, Deakin University. Burwood, Victoria
Bryce, Mio & Davis, Jason (2006), "Manga/Anime, Media
Mix: Scholarship in a Post-Modern, Global Community" in Michael
Atherton Ed., CAESS (the College of Arts, Education and Social
Sciences) Conference: Scholarship & Community, University
of Western Sydney, pp.1-10.
Bryce, Mio (2005) "Cuteness Needed: The New Language/Communication
Device In A Global Society", International Journal of the
Humanities, 2:3, http://mbryce.cgpublisher.com/product/pub.26/prod.393
Megumi Sata Khan & Mio Bryce (2005), "Beyond right and
wrong: An innovative approach to teaching Japanese particles using
animation", in Barbara Bourke (ed). Innovative Practice in
Japanese Language Education Queensland University of Technology,
pp.1-16.
Bryce, Mio (2005) "'School' in Japanese children's lives
depicted in manga", AARE Conference 2004 - Melbourne, (http://www.aare.edu.au/04pap/bry04255.pdf)
Stephens, John and Bryce, Mio (2004), "Nothing dirty about
turning on a machine" - Loving your Mechanoid in Contemporary
Manga," Papers: Explorations Into Children's Literature 14:2,
pp.44-52.
Bryce, Mio & Stephens, John (2005) "Japanese popular
culture and character fashioning: the quest for subjective agency
in the animated films, Nausicaä of the Valley of Wind and
Perfect Blue", International Journal of the Humanities, 1,
pp.311-321, http://mbryce.cgpublisher.com/product/pub.26/prod.1.89.
Bryce, Mio (2004), "Visuality of writing in our modern world
of multimedia and mass communication: focusing on the written
Japanese", Marking Our Differences: Languages in Australian
and New Zealand Universities, pp.238-254.
Bryce, Mio (2003), "Defining the doctorate with Asian research
students", in AARE
Mini-conference 2003 Conference papers, Australian Association
for Research in Education,
(http://www.aare.edu.au/indexpap.htm br03015z.pdf)
Ashiabor, Hope, Taplin, Ros; Bryce, Mio; Kefallinos, Elizabeth & Reid, Anna, (2003), "Redefining our experiences of
research through the integration of multiple perspectives for
the development of postgraduate student research capacity",
in AARE Mini-conference 2003 Conference papers, (http://www.aare.edu.au/indexpap.htm
03021z.pdf).
The above animation is related to:
Mio Bryce & Megumi-Sata Khan, Creation of an Animation Component Incorporated Online Unit Translation and Writing Japanese, Anna Reid, Maree Gosper and Sharon Fraser eds., Celebrating Teaching at Macquarie, 2002.
http://www.cfl.mq.edu.au/celebrate/pdf/papers/bryce1.pdf
