Livia Monnet earned her PhD from the University of Vienna, in Austria. She taught at the University of Heidelberg, in Germany, and at the University of Minnesota, in the USA, before coming to the Université de Montréal. Her current research focuses on experimental cinema in Japan, body issues in video installations and 21^st-century media arts, and on artistic and cultural practices of ecological movements in the Asia-Pacific area. She teaches courses on a wide variety of subjects, including independent animation cinema in the 2000s, feminism in cinema and the visual arts, classical Japanese theatre, uchronia in Japanese literature and cinema, and theory and esthetics in comic strips and their film adaptations. She has received academic awards from the Canon Foundation and the German Society for East Asian studies, as well as many SSHRC research grants.

Livia Monnet est professeure titulaire au Département de littératures et de langues du monde ainsi qu'au Centre d'études asiatiques de l'Université de Montréal. Elle est l'auteure de plusieurs livres et de nombreux articles sur la littérature et le cinéma japonais contemporains.

Livres

• Ishimure Michiko. Paradise in the Sea of Sorrow. Translated with an Introduction by Livia Monnet. Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan, 2003
• Approches critiques de la pensée japonaise du XXe siècle. Sous la direction de Livia Monnet. Presses de l’Université de Montréal, 2001

Articles récents

• “Anatomy of Permutational Desire: Perversion In Hans Bellmer and Oshii Mamoru, 1,2,3.” Mechademia 5,6,7. 2010, 2011,2012. University of Minnesota Press
• “L’arcade de la littéralité ou la profondeur de l’immédiat: Poétique des surfaces et traduction dans Uberseezungen de Yoko Tawada.” Études germaniques, No.3, 2010. Didier Érudition