The Work of a Male Fashion Model (Masafumi Monden)

Lecturer in Japanese Studies at the Faculty of Language and Cultural Studies, University of Sydney. Completed a doctoral program at the University of Technology Sydney. Postdoctoral researcher at the Faculty of Design, University of Technology Sydney, and lecturer at the Department of Asian Studies, Faculty of Social and Cultural Studies, University of Western Australia before assuming his current post in 2022. His research field includes popular fashion and visual culture in modern Japanese history, leading to numerous papers on manga, ballet, music videos, advertising culture, and figure skating. His major publications include "Japanese Fashion Cultures: Dress and Gender in Contemporary Japan" (Bloomsbury Academic, 2015).