Maxim Tvorun-Dunn
Assistant Professor of Cultural Studies
Ph.D. – University of Tokyo
Education
2025 Ph.D. – Cultural Studies, University of Tokyo
2021 M.A. – Culture and Communications, Waseda University
2019 B.A. – Cinema and Media Studies, University of Washington
Teaching & Research Interests
Visual Culture, Political Ecology, Urban Studies, Film, Video Games
Academic Appointments
2025 – Assistant Professor, Tokyo International University
Fellowships & Grants
2021 – MEXT Scholarship, University of Tokyo
2020 – MEXT Scholarship, Waseda University
Selected Publications/Conference Papers
Maxim Tvorun-Dunn. “Colonizing the Future: Urban Imaginations and the Transnational Flow of Techno-Utopia” Global Urban History Project 2nd Conference. Technische Universität Berlin. 2025.
Maxim Tvorun-Dunn. “Neoliberalism’s Imagined Futures: Sustainability as Colonialism in Eco-City Design.” Antipode. Vol. 57(2). pp.714-733. 2024.
Maxim Tvorun-Dunn. “Neoliberal Space and Deleuzian Perception: The Schizophrenic Gaze of Cruelty Squad” 10th Deleuze and Guattari Studies in Asia Conference. National Taiwan University, 2024.
Maxim Tvorun-Dunn. “Soldier-Spy: The National Security State and the 1960s World War II Spy Film.” Journal of War & Culture Studies. Vol. 17(4). 2024, pp. 431-449.
Maxim Tvorun-Dunn and Nathalie Pascaru. “Environmentalism Polluted: Consumerism and Complicity in Studio Ghibli’s Media Mix.” Journal of Cultural Economy. Co-Author: Nathalie Pascaru. Vol. 16(6). 2023, pp.886-907.
Maxim Tvorun-Dunn. “Transnational Dialectics in Postwar Japanese Crime Cinema.” Transnational Screens. Vol. 15(1). 2023, pp.1-16.
Maxim Tvorun-Dunn. “To Show is to Ennoble: Visuality of Militarist Materials”
The Uniform: Symbols of Power, Propaganda and Organisation in Popular Culture Conference. University of New England, 2023.
Maxim Tvorun-Dunn. “Acid Liberalism: Silicon Valley’s Enlightened Technocrats, and the Legalization of Psychedelics.” International Journal of Drug Policy. Vol. 110, 2022.
Maxim Tvorun-Dunn. “Social Realism in Red Orchestra 2.” Games and Culture. Vol. 18(4), 2022, pp. 524-534.
Maxim Tvorun-Dunn. “‘I am He as You are He as You are Me and We are All Together:’ Transmedia Convergence of The Beatles Psychedelic Years (1966-1969).” Popular Music History. Vol. 14(3), June 2022, pp. 247-267.
Maxim Tvorun-Dunn. “Finding Identity through Style: Seijun Suzuki’s Tokyo Drifter.” Japan Beyond its Borders: Transnational Approaches to Film and Media. Eds. Norimasa Morita, Marcos Centeno. Seibunsha. April 2020, pp. 133-146.