Filippo Cervelli

Filippo Cervelli received his PhD in Oriental Studies from the University of Oxford, and is currently Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary Japanese Literature at SOAS University of London. Broadly speaking, his research focuses on representations of individual and social crises across modern and contemporary Japanese literature and popular culture. He has written on the fiction of Takahashi Gen’ichirō, Abe Kazushige, on post-Fukushima literature, on manga, and on animation. He recently co-edited the interdisciplinary special issue The Lonely Nerd (2022), on representations of nerds and loneliness, for the journal Exchanges. He is currently exploring narrations of space and peripheral realities in modern Japanese literature; on the popular culture side, he is focusing on the works of Hosoda Mamoru.