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Baryon Tensor POSADAS

PhD in East Asian Studies
University of Toronto, 2010

Associate Professor
Division of Humanities

(852) 2358 5872
hmbposadas@ust.hk
Room 2355
Personal Web

Google Scholar

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ORCID

0009-0001-2214-2275

ResearcherID

OHU-0043-2025

Scopus ID

55138840000

Research Interest Publications Teaching Assignment RPG Supervision

Research Interest

Modern Japanese literature
Film studies
Science fiction studies
Japanese animation
Media, visual and verbal culture
Literary theory and cultural criticism

Publications

All Years 22 2026 0 2025 2 2024 2 2023 1 2022 1 2021 3 2020 13

2025 2

Anime’s Identity: Performativity and Form Beyond Japan

Animation: An Interdisciplinary Journal, v. 20, (2), p. 168-170
POSADAS, Baryon Tensor
Article

Animated Bodies: Project Itoh and the Afterlives of Techno-orientalism

Techno-Orientalism 2.0 New Intersections and Interventions / edited by Roh David; Huang Betsy; Niu Greta ; Fan Christopher. Rutgers University Press, 2025, p. 219-234
POSADAS, Baryon Tensor
Book chapter

2024 2

Model Machines: A History of the Asian as Automaton [Book Review]

Journal of Asian Studies, v. 83, p. 216-217
Posadas, Baryon Tensor
Article

Japanese Science Fiction

The New Routledge Companion to Science Fiction / Routledge, 2024, p. 109-117
Posadas, Baryon Tensor
Book chapter

2023 1

“That Day Does Not Belong to Our Generation”: Komatsu Sakyō’s Affective Futurities

Literature, v. 3, p. 112-122
Posadas, Baryon Tensor
Article

2022 1

The Metabolist Imagination: Visions of the City in Postwar Japanese Architecture and Science Fiction [Book review]

SFRA Review, v. 52, p. 264-266
Posadas, Baryon Tensor
Article

2021 3

"Confront the cruelty of the future": Coloniality, ecology, and futurity in Abe Kōbō's inter ice age 4

College Literature, v. 48, (3), p. 496-516
Posadas, Baryon Tensor
Article

Hidden Histories, Traveling Time: Science Fiction Translation as Cognitive Estrangement

Mechademia: Second Arc, v. 14, p. 185-200
Posadas, Baryon Tensor
Article

The Fiction of Kunst: A Re-reading of Heinlein

Mechademia: Second Arc, v. 14, p. 28-61
Posadas, Baryon Tensor; Yoshio, Aramaki
Article

2018 1

Double visions, double fictions: The Doppelgänger in Japanese film and literature

Double Visions, Double Fictions / University of Minnesota Press, 2018, p. 1-255
Posadas, Baryon Tensor
Book chapter

2017 2

The Sacred Era: A Novel

Aramaki, Yoshio; Posadas, Baryon Tensor
Book

Beyond Techno-orientalism: Virtual Worlds and Identity Tourism in Japanese Cyberpunk

Dis-Orienting Planets: Racial Representations of Asia in Science Fiction / University of Mississippi, 2017, p. 144-159
Posadas, Baryon Tensor
Book chapter

2014 2

Fantasies of the end of the world: The politics of repetition in the films of Kurosawa Kiyoshi

Positions, v. 22, (2), p. 429-460
Posadas, Baryon Tensor
Article

Remaking Yamato, Remaking Japan: Space Battleship Yamato and SF Anime

Science Fiction Film and Television, v. 7
Posadas, Baryon Tensor
Article

2013 1

Toward a Theory of “Artist Manga”: Manga Self-Consciousness and the Transforming Figure of the Artist

Mechademia: Second Arc, v. 8, p. 155-171
Posadas, Baryon Tensor; Yorimitsu, Hashimoto
Article

2012 1

The Sky Crawlers and the Transmediation of Science Fictional Worlds

Poetica, v. 78
Posadas, Baryon Tensor
Article

2011 1

Remediations of ‘Japan’ in number9dream

David Mitchell: Critical Essays / Gylphi, 2011, p. 77-103
Posadas, Baryon Tensor
Book chapter

2010 1

Rampo's repetitions: The doppelganger in Edogawa Rampo and Tsukamoto Shin'ya

Japan Forum, v. 21, (2), p. 161-182
Posadas, Baryon Tensor
Article

2009 1

Kindai, hanpuku, bunshin: Edogawa Rampo to Tsukamoto Shin’ya ni okeru dopperugengâ

Nihon kindai bungakukai: Hokkaido shibukaiho, v. 12
Posadas, Baryon Tensor
Article

2007 1

Rumor City

South Atlantic Quarterly, v. 106, p. 859-869
Arata, Isozaki; Posadas, Baryon Tensor; Sato, Kyoko
Article

2001 1

Rethinking Philippine Science Fiction

The Diliman Review, v. 49, p. 22-30
Posadas, Baryon Tensor
Article

2000 1

In the Spotlight of Misperception: Japanese Science Fiction vis-à-vis Western Science Fiction Set in Japan

Humanities Diliman: A Philippine Journal of Humanities, v. 1, p. 36-53
Posadas, Baryon Tensor
Article

Article 1

Anime’s Identity: Performativity and Form Beyond Japan

Animation: An Interdisciplinary Journal, v. 20, (2), p. 168-170
POSADAS, Baryon Tensor

Book chapter 1

Animated Bodies: Project Itoh and the Afterlives of Techno-orientalism

Techno-Orientalism 2.0 New Intersections and Interventions / edited by Roh David; Huang Betsy; Niu Greta ; Fan Christopher. Rutgers University Press, 2025, p. 219-234
POSADAS, Baryon Tensor

Article 1

Model Machines: A History of the Asian as Automaton [Book Review]

Journal of Asian Studies, v. 83, p. 216-217
Posadas, Baryon Tensor

Book chapter 1

Japanese Science Fiction

The New Routledge Companion to Science Fiction / Routledge, 2024, p. 109-117
Posadas, Baryon Tensor

Article 1

“That Day Does Not Belong to Our Generation”: Komatsu Sakyō’s Affective Futurities

Literature, v. 3, p. 112-122
Posadas, Baryon Tensor

Article 1

The Metabolist Imagination: Visions of the City in Postwar Japanese Architecture and Science Fiction [Book review]

SFRA Review, v. 52, p. 264-266
Posadas, Baryon Tensor

Article 3

"Confront the cruelty of the future": Coloniality, ecology, and futurity in Abe Kōbō's inter ice age 4

College Literature, v. 48, (3), p. 496-516
Posadas, Baryon Tensor

Hidden Histories, Traveling Time: Science Fiction Translation as Cognitive Estrangement

Mechademia: Second Arc, v. 14, p. 185-200
Posadas, Baryon Tensor

The Fiction of Kunst: A Re-reading of Heinlein

Mechademia: Second Arc, v. 14, p. 28-61
Posadas, Baryon Tensor; Yoshio, Aramaki

Book chapter 1

Double visions, double fictions: The Doppelgänger in Japanese film and literature

Double Visions, Double Fictions / University of Minnesota Press, 2018, p. 1-255
Posadas, Baryon Tensor

Book 1

The Sacred Era: A Novel

Aramaki, Yoshio; Posadas, Baryon Tensor

Book chapter 1

Beyond Techno-orientalism: Virtual Worlds and Identity Tourism in Japanese Cyberpunk

Dis-Orienting Planets: Racial Representations of Asia in Science Fiction / University of Mississippi, 2017, p. 144-159
Posadas, Baryon Tensor

Article 2

Fantasies of the end of the world: The politics of repetition in the films of Kurosawa Kiyoshi

Positions, v. 22, (2), p. 429-460
Posadas, Baryon Tensor

Remaking Yamato, Remaking Japan: Space Battleship Yamato and SF Anime

Science Fiction Film and Television, v. 7
Posadas, Baryon Tensor

Article 1

Toward a Theory of “Artist Manga”: Manga Self-Consciousness and the Transforming Figure of the Artist

Mechademia: Second Arc, v. 8, p. 155-171
Posadas, Baryon Tensor; Yorimitsu, Hashimoto

Article 1

The Sky Crawlers and the Transmediation of Science Fictional Worlds

Poetica, v. 78
Posadas, Baryon Tensor

Book chapter 1

Remediations of ‘Japan’ in number9dream

David Mitchell: Critical Essays / Gylphi, 2011, p. 77-103
Posadas, Baryon Tensor

Article 1

Rampo's repetitions: The doppelganger in Edogawa Rampo and Tsukamoto Shin'ya

Japan Forum, v. 21, (2), p. 161-182
Posadas, Baryon Tensor

Article 1

Kindai, hanpuku, bunshin: Edogawa Rampo to Tsukamoto Shin’ya ni okeru dopperugengâ

Nihon kindai bungakukai: Hokkaido shibukaiho, v. 12
Posadas, Baryon Tensor

Article 1

Rumor City

South Atlantic Quarterly, v. 106, p. 859-869
Arata, Isozaki; Posadas, Baryon Tensor; Sato, Kyoko

Article 1

Rethinking Philippine Science Fiction

The Diliman Review, v. 49, p. 22-30
Posadas, Baryon Tensor

Article 1

In the Spotlight of Misperception: Japanese Science Fiction vis-à-vis Western Science Fiction Set in Japan

Humanities Diliman: A Philippine Journal of Humanities, v. 1, p. 36-53
Posadas, Baryon Tensor

2018 1

Double visions, double fictions: The Doppelgänger in Japanese film and literature

Double Visions, Double Fictions / University of Minnesota Press, 2018, p. 1-255
Posadas, Baryon Tensor
Book chapter

2017 2

The Sacred Era: A Novel

Aramaki, Yoshio; Posadas, Baryon Tensor
Book

Beyond Techno-orientalism: Virtual Worlds and Identity Tourism in Japanese Cyberpunk

Dis-Orienting Planets: Racial Representations of Asia in Science Fiction / University of Mississippi, 2017, p. 144-159
Posadas, Baryon Tensor
Book chapter

2014 2

Fantasies of the end of the world: The politics of repetition in the films of Kurosawa Kiyoshi

Positions, v. 22, (2), p. 429-460
Posadas, Baryon Tensor
Article

Remaking Yamato, Remaking Japan: Space Battleship Yamato and SF Anime

Science Fiction Film and Television, v. 7
Posadas, Baryon Tensor
Article

2013 1

Toward a Theory of “Artist Manga”: Manga Self-Consciousness and the Transforming Figure of the Artist

Mechademia: Second Arc, v. 8, p. 155-171
Posadas, Baryon Tensor; Yorimitsu, Hashimoto
Article

2012 1

The Sky Crawlers and the Transmediation of Science Fictional Worlds

Poetica, v. 78
Posadas, Baryon Tensor
Article

2011 1

Remediations of ‘Japan’ in number9dream

David Mitchell: Critical Essays / Gylphi, 2011, p. 77-103
Posadas, Baryon Tensor
Book chapter

2010 1

Rampo's repetitions: The doppelganger in Edogawa Rampo and Tsukamoto Shin'ya

Japan Forum, v. 21, (2), p. 161-182
Posadas, Baryon Tensor
Article

2009 1

Kindai, hanpuku, bunshin: Edogawa Rampo to Tsukamoto Shin’ya ni okeru dopperugengâ

Nihon kindai bungakukai: Hokkaido shibukaiho, v. 12
Posadas, Baryon Tensor
Article

2007 1

Rumor City

South Atlantic Quarterly, v. 106, p. 859-869
Arata, Isozaki; Posadas, Baryon Tensor; Sato, Kyoko
Article

2001 1

Rethinking Philippine Science Fiction

The Diliman Review, v. 49, p. 22-30
Posadas, Baryon Tensor
Article

2000 1

In the Spotlight of Misperception: Japanese Science Fiction vis-à-vis Western Science Fiction Set in Japan

Humanities Diliman: A Philippine Journal of Humanities, v. 1, p. 36-53
Posadas, Baryon Tensor
Article

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Teaching Assignment

2026-27 Fall 3 2025-26 Summer 0 2025-26 Spring 4 2025-26 Winter 0 2025-26 Fall 3 2024-25 Summer 0

HUMA2401	Global Science Fiction: An Interdisciplinary Approach
HUMA4000O	Images of Asia
HUMA5451	Images of Asia

HUMA2331	Japanese Animation: Technology, Gender, and History
HUMA4351	Critical Film and Media Theory
HUMA5351	Critical Film and Media Theory
SHSS4993	Honors Research

HUMA2204	Japanese Science Fiction
HUMA6100A	Independent Study
SHSS4991	Capstone Project

Research Interest

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2021 3

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Teaching Assignment

Research Postgraduate (RPG) Supervision

From January 2023 to December 2026 (As of 10 September 2026)

Current RPGs

Projects

From January 2024 to December 2026

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