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Field

Modern Japanese Literature and Culture

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Position

Professor, Graduate School of Humanities

 

Education

Ph.D. (Japanese Studies) University of Trier, Germany
M.A. (Japanese Studies) Freie Universität Berlin, Germany

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Research Interests

Contemporary Japanese literature; Korean minority literature; transnational literature; ecocriticism and environmental literature; post-3.11 literature; food and literature; post-colonial studies; cultural studies; gender studies

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Message to Prospective Students

As someone who is passionate about modern and contemporary literature, I am excited to welcome MA and PhD projects in this field, particularly those that align with my research interests. If you are considering applying for our JACS-MA program, hoping to pursue a PhD at Nagoya University, or interested in enrolling as a Research Student, please do not hesitate to contact me in advance. Together, we can figure out whether NU would be a good fit for you and your academic goals. Additionally, I encourage prospective JACS undergraduate students to reach out with any questions they may have. I look forward to hearing from you and exploring the possibilities of your academic journey with NU!

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Courses Taught

• Spring Odd Years

"Literature" (Liberal Arts)

"Introduction to Thesis Writing"​

"New Perspectives on Japanese Modern Literature"

"Joint Undergraduate Seminar"
"Graduate Seminar Literary Theory and Practice"

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• Fall Odd Years

"Introduction to Research Methods for Culture and History"​

"Introduction to Modern Japanese Literature"

"Transnational and Minority Literatures"

"Joint Undergraduate Seminar"

"Graduate Seminar Literary Theory and Practice"

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• Spring Even Years

"Introduction to Thesis Writing"​

"Japanese Literature and Translation"

"Japanese Literature and Gender"

"Joint Undergraduate Seminar"

"Graduate Seminar Literary Theory and Practice"

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• Fall Even Years

"Introduction to Research Methods for Culture and History"

"Introduction to Cultural Theory"

"Critical Literary Analysis"

"Joint Undergraduate Seminar"

"Graduate Seminar Literary Theory and Practice"

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Professional Experience​

• Professor, School of Humanities, Nagoya University (since 2023)

• Affiliated Researcher, Center for Transregional Culture and Society (since 2023)

• JACS Program Director (2014-18; 2021-23)

• Associate Professor, School of Humanities, Nagoya University (2013-23)

• Visiting Research Fellow. German Research Foundation (DFG) Centre for Advanced Studies FOR 2603 "Poetry in Transition", Trier University, Germany (2018-2019)

• Senior Research Fellow. "Post-3.11 Media Discourses", International Research Center for Japanese Studies Kyoto (2016-2018)

• Deputy Director, German Institute for Japanese Studies Tokyo (2013)

• Senior Research Fellow, German Institute for Japanese Studies Tokyo (DIJ)

• Lecturer, Japanese Studies Department, University of Trier

• German Research Foundation (DFG) Research Fellow, Japanese Studies Department, University of Trier

 

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Selected Publications

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Monographs & Edited Volumes

• 2017. Fukushima and the Arts. Negotiating Nuclear Disaster. Routledge (co-edited with Barbara Geilhorn). 2018 paperback edition.

• 2015. Visions of Precarity in Japanese Popular Culture and Literature. Routledge (co-edited with Roman Rosenbaum). 2018 paperback edition.

• 2013. Raifukōsu no yukue. Nihon to doitsu no shigoto, kazoku, sumai. Beyond a Standardized Lifecourse - Biographical Choices about Work, Family and Housing in Japan and Germany. Tokyo: Shinyosha (co-edited with Hiromi Tanaka, Maren Godzik).

• 2010. Contemporary Japan. Vol. 22, No. 1+2, Inaugural Special Issue "Mind the Gap: Stratification and Social Inequalities in Japan" (co-edited with Barbara Holthus).

• 2008. Alles nur Theater? Gender und Ethnizität bei der japankoreanischen Autorin Yū Miri. Munich: Iudicium.

• 2005. Ethnizität und Geschlecht - (Post-)Koloniale Verhandlungen in Geschichte, Kunst und Medien. Böhlau (with Graduiertenkolleg Ethnizität und Geschlecht).

　　

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Journal Articles & Book Chapters (selection)​

• 2023. "Writing Back to the Capitalocene. Radioactive Foodscapes in Japan's Post-3.11 Literature", in Contemporary Japan. Co-authored with Aidana Bolatbekkyzy. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/18692729.2023.2208399

• 2023."Voice and Voicelessness. Reading Vernaculars in Post-3.11 Literature", in Linda Flores and Barbara Geilhorn, eds, Literature After Fukushima. From Marginalized Voices to Nuclear Futurity. Routledge, 47-65.

• 2021. "Kusomamire no inochi--kyapitarosen hihan toshite Kimura Yūsuke no Cs Seichi o yomu", in Kimura Saeko and Anne Bayard-Sakai, eds, Sekai bungaku toshite no 'shinsaigo bungaku'. Tokyo: Akashi shoten, 289-310.

• 2020. "Erlesenes Essen. Kimchi, Gender und Ethnizität in der japankoreanischen Gegenwartslyrik", in Eduard Klopfenstein, ed. Japanische Lyrik der Gegenwart. XXI. Europäische Japandiskurse. Berlin: Theseus, 70-88.

• 2020. "Broken Narratives, Multiple Truths: Writing 'History' in Yū Miri's The End of August." positions east asia cultures critique, Vol. 28 No.4, 815-840.

• 2020. "Shi ni kizamu kimuchi--'zainichi' shijin no egaku shoku, jendā, sabetsu", in JunCture (Tokushū kokumin, kokka, shoku), Vol. 11. 58-71.

• 2019. "Uwagaki suru bungaku--Yū Miri JR Ueno eki kōenguchi o shuuhen kara no rekishi toshite yomu", in Mitsuyo Wada-Marciano, ed., 'Post 3.11' media gensetsu saikō. Tokyo: Hōsei daigaku shuppankyoku, 197-215.

• 2019."The Roads to Disaster, or Rewriting History from the Margins--Yū Miri's JR Ueno Station Park Exit." Contemporary Japan, Vol. 31, No. 2, 180-196, doi 10.1080/18692729.2019.1578848.

• 2018. "Challenging the Myth of Homogeneity: Immigrant Writing in Japan", in Sandra Vlasta and Wiebke Sievers, eds. Immigrant and Ethnic-Minority Writers since 1945. Fourteen National Contexts in Europe and Beyond. Brill Rodopi, 318-354.

• 2018. "Pavane for a Dead Princess, or Exploring Geographies of the City, the Mind, and the Social: Fujita Yoshinaga's Tenten and Miki Satoshi's Adrift in Tokyo", in Barbara Thornbury and Evelyn Schulz, eds. Tokyo--Memory, Imagination, and the City. Lexington Books, 25-44.

• 2017. "Negotiating Nuclear Disaster. An Introduction", in Barbara Geilhorn and Kristina Iwata-Weickgenannt, eds. Negotiating Nuclear Disaster--'Fukushima' and the Arts. Routledge, 1-20.

• 2017. "Gendering 'Fukushima': Resistance, Self-responsibility, and Female Hysteria in Sono Sion's Land of Hope", in Barbara Geilhorn and Kristina Iwata-Weickgenannt, eds. Negotiating Nuclear Disaster--'Fukushima' and the Arts. Routledge, 110-126.

• 2015. "'Fukushima leben', oder wie spricht man von der verlorenen Heimat? Politische Ambivalenzen in Wagō Ryōichis Katastrophenpoesie", in Lisette Gebhardt and Evelyn Schulz, eds. Neue Konzepte japanischer Literatur? Nationalliteratur, literarischer Kanon und die Literaturtheorie. EB Verlag, 223-252.

• 2015. "Precarity beyond 3/11 or 'Living Fukushima'--Power, politics, and space in Wagō Ryōichi's poetry of disaster", in Kristina Iwata-Weickgenannt and Roman Rosenbaum, eds. Visions of Precarity in Japanese Popular Culture and Literature. Routledge, 187-201.

• 2015. "Kirino Natsuo's Metabola, or the Okinawan stage, fractured selves and the precarity of contemporary existence", in Kristina Iwata-Weickgenannt and Roman Rosenbaum, eds. Visions of Precarity in Japanese Popular Culture and Literature. Routledge, 24-42.

• 2013. "Terebi dorama ni miru raifukōsu no datsu hyōjunka to mikonka no hyōshō: Around 40 to Konkatsu! o rei ni", in Hiromi Tanaka, Maren Godzik, Kristina Iwata-Weickgenannt, eds, Raifukōsu no yukue. Nihon to doitsu no shigoto, kazoku, sumai. Beyond a Standardized Lifecourse - Biographical Choices about Work, Family and Housing in Japan and Germany. Tokyo: Shinyōsha, 176-201.

• 2012. "Precarity discourses in Kirino Natsuo's Metabola--the Okinawan stage, fractured selves and the ambiguity of contemporary existence." Japan Forum. Vol. 24:2, 141-161.

• 2011. "The Japanese Television Drama Around 40 and the Politics of Happiness: Count What You Have Now." Asian Studies Review. Vol. 35, 295-313; with Alisa Freedman.

• 2011. "'Unsichtbare Menschen'? Zur Entstehung und gegenwärtigen Situation der koreanischen Minderheit in Japan", in Hilaria Gössmann, Renate Jaschke, Andreas Mrugalla, eds. Interkulturelle Begegnungen in Literatur, Film und Fernsehen. Ein deutsch-japanischer Vergleich. Iudicium, 113-144.

• 2008. "Die Fremde als Heimat? Die Heimat als Fremde? Zu Identitätsdiskursen in der Literatur der koreanischen Minderheit in Japan", in Michael Lackner, ed. Zwischen Selbstbestimmung und Selbstbehauptung. Ostasiatische Diskurse des 20. und 21. Jahrhunderts. Nomos-Verlagsgesellschaft, 105-133.

• 2007. "Aidentiti no datsu kōchiku toshite no 'jibun sagashi'--Yū Miri no Hachigatsu no hate ron", in Shakaibungaku (Tokushū 'Zainichi' bungaku: kako, genzai, mirai), Vol. 26, 136-147.

• 2007. "Yū Miri und das 'schöne Dorf': Konstruktionen von 'roots' und 'routes' in Hachigatsu no hate." Asiati¬sche Studien/ Études Asiatiques. Special Issue: Schriftstellerinnen des 20. Jahrhunderts. Vol. LXII-2/2007, 661-683.

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