Biography
Dr Marcos Centeno-Martín is Associate Professor in Film and Media at the University of Valencia, Spain, and a research associate at the School of Asian Studies (SOAS), University of London, United Kingdom. He was previously a Lecturer in Film Studies for the Department of Japan and Korea and convened the MA programme in Global Cinemas and the Transcultural at SOAS. After his appointment at SOAS, Dr Centeno-Martín was a Lecturer at Birkbeck College, United Kingdom, where he acted as the Director of the Japanese Programme. He has also been research associate at the Nissan Institute for Japanese Studies, Waseda University, and the University of Oxford, and a guest lecturer at Nanzan University, Japan.
Dr Centeno-Martín’s research interests revolve around Japanese documentary film, war-time memory, image theory, transnationality, and representation of minorities. He is the PI for TRAMEVIC: Transnational War-time Memories in East Asian Visual Culture funded by Generalitat Valenciana, coordinator of TRADIASIA (Transculturality and Diversity in East Asia). He has received grants from the Council on East Asian Studies at Yale University, United States, and has led projects with funding from the Sasakawa Peace Foundation, Daiwa, the Japan Foundation, the Japanese Ministry of Education (MEXT).