Shota Uchiyama

Shota Uchiyama’s research centers on the history of female film audiences in Japan. He explores how cinema, as one of the most influential media of the twentieth century, shaped new experiences for women. His work goes beyond analyzing the dyadic relationship between film texts and female viewers; it also examines the broader significance of cinema-going and film-viewing in women’s everyday lives. This topic forms part of his wider interest in how moving image technologies have created, transformed, or mediated women’s experiences. Before joining Harvard, he earned both his Bachelor’s degree in Integrated Human Studies and his Master’s degree in Human and Environmental Studies from Kyoto University. He has published articles in both English and Japanese, on subjects ranging from prewar newspaper and film magazine representations of female audiences to literary depictions of women’s cinema-going experiences by the Japanese writer Yoshiya Nobuko.