Rate My Professor Gwyn Mcclelland

Dr. Gwyn McClelland is Senior Lecturer in Japanese Studies in the Department of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics within the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences at the University of New England. He earned his PhD in Historical Studies from Monash University in 2018, Master of Divinity from the University of Divinity in 2008, Graduate Diploma in Education from Monash University in 1994, and BA (Honours) in Geography and Japanese from Monash University in 1993. Prior to his appointment at UNE, McClelland taught and lectured in global and transnational history, Japanese language, bilingualism, and theology to undergraduates and postgraduates at Monash University, University of Melbourne, University of Divinity, and RMIT University. He serves as Book Review Editor for Studies in Oral History, Journal of the Oral History Association of Australia, and is an ordinary member of the Executive Committee of the Japanese Studies Association of Australia. McClelland has delivered public lectures, including at the Australian National University Japan Institute Seminar Series in 2022 on 'The Transference of Trauma and Nagasaki Narratives' and at the National Library of Australia in 2023.

McClelland's research engages with oral history, Japanese history, East Asian history, theology, religious studies, sensory studies, and trauma studies, particularly religious discourses in memory related to the Nagasaki atomic bombing and hidden Christian World Heritage sites in the Gotō Archipelago. His monograph, Dangerous Memory in Nagasaki: Prayers, Protests and Catholic Survivor Narratives, was published by Routledge in 2019. He co-edited Aromas of Asia: Exchanges, Histories, Threats with Hannah Gould, published by Penn State University Press in 2023. Notable publications include 'Valuing the Urakami Cathedral after the atomic bombing: fundraising and social rupture in Nagasaki' in Journal of Cultural Economy (2022); 'Japanese Language Learning and Teaching During COVID-19: Challenges and Opportunities' in Japanese Studies (2022); 'From Pure Land to Hell: Introducing four culturally hybrid UNESCO World Heritage sites in the Gotō Archipelago' in Shima (2021); and 'Urakami Memory and the Two Popes: The Disrupting of an Abstracted Nuclear Discourse' in Religions (2021). Book chapters appear in Shadows of Nagasaki (Fordham University Press, 2023) and The Memorial Museum in the Digital Age (Reframe Books, 2022). Awards include the Japan Foundation Long-term Fellowship (2022), National Library of Australia Fellowship (2022-2023), John Legge Prize for Best Thesis in Asian Studies (2019), and JSAA Grant (2019). He holds the Collaborative Research Fellowship in the Future Histories Project at UNE for 2024-2025.