Rate My Professor Gwyn Mcclelland

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.