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Dr Gwyn McClelland

Senior Lecturer in Japanese Studies - School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences

Phone: +61 02-6773-5238

Biography

Dr Gwyn McClelland is Japanese Studies Senior Lecturer in the Department of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics within the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences.

As an oral historian, Gwyn conducts research engaging with religious discourses in memory, history, theology, and sensory studies. His first monograph was published in 2019 by Routledge, Dangerous Memory in Nagasaki: Prayers, Protests and Catholic Survivor Narratives. He is co-editor with Dr Hannah Gould (University of Melbourne) of the 2023 edited collection, Aromas of Asia: Exchanges, Histories, Threats (Penn State University Press) in the Perspectives on Sensory History Series edited by Mark M. Smith.

Gwyn is current Collaborative Research Fellow in the Future Histories Project at UNE for 2024-2025. He was also awarded the 2022 Japan Foundation Long-term Fellowship to examine UNESCO World Heritage Hidden Christian sites within the Gotō Archipelago (awarded separately in 2020 but not taken due to COVID). He is currently working on an associated book project: tentatively Pure Land to Hell: Hidden Kirishitan, the Goto Islands, and World Heritage.

The University of New England respects and acknowledges that its people, courses and facilities are built on land, and surrounded by a sense of belonging, both ancient and contemporary, of the world's oldest living culture. In doing so, UNE values and respects Indigenous knowledge systems as a vital part of the knowledge capital of Australia. We recognise the strength, resilience and capacity of the Aboriginal community and pay our respects to the Elders past, present and future.

Dr Gwyn McClelland

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