ROUNDTABLE SPEAKERS
Jonathan Glade is a Lecturer in Japanese Studies at the University of Melbourne. His research interests include modern Korean and Japanese literature, decolonization, Zainichi studies, and the post–World War II occupation of Japan and southern Korea. He is currently working on a manuscript entitled Occupied Liberation: Fragmentation and Loss in US-Occupied Japan and Southern Korea, 1945-1952.
Catherine Ryu is Associate Professor of Japanese Literature and Culture at Michigan State University. Her research and teaching interests include classical Japanese literature, Heian narratives, game studies, children’s literature, graphic narratives, second language studies, digital humanities, and Zainichi studies. She served as program chair for the International Zainichi Symposium on “The Poetics of Passing: Interrogating Self-Fashioning as the Other in Zainichi Cultural Production” (2018) held at Michigan State University.
Cindi Textor is an assistant professor of Japanese literature and culture at the University of Utah. She is the author of articles on colonial and Zainichi Korean literature, and her book manuscript in progress is tentatively titled Anatomies of Incoherence: Zainichi Literature and the Intersectional Politics of Speech.
Shoya Unoda is a professor of Japanese studies at the Graduate School of Letters, Osaka University. He specializes in Japanese intellectual history. He has been working on postwar Japanese social movements, with special focus on the cultural activism by Zainichi Koreans in the 1950s.
Nobuko Ishitate-Oku(no)miya Yamasaki is Assistant Professor of Japanese in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures as well as the Program of Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Lehigh University. She earned a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature at the University of Washington. Her research focuses on women, radical alterity, and temporality as represented in literature, film, and art.
DISCUSSANTS
Andre Haag is an assistant professor of Japanese literature and culture at the University of Hawaii at Mānoa. He received his Ph.D. in Japanese literature from Stanford University. Haag’s research explores how the tensions and terrors of colonialism attendant to the annexation of Korea and internalization of the “Korea Problem” were inscribed within the literature, culture, and vocabularies of Japanese metropole.
Nathaniel Heneghan received his PhD from the University of Southern California and is currently Visiting Assistant Professor of Japanese at Oberlin College. His research encompasses cinema studies, postcolonial theory, and gender studies. He is currently at work on a manuscript project, which considers the changing representation of Zainichi Korean identity in postwar literature and film.
Nayoung Aimee Kwon is Associate Professor of Asian & Middle Eastern Studies, Program in the Arts of the Moving Image, and Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies at Duke University. She is the author of Intimate Empire: Collaboration and Colonial Modernity in Korea and Japan (Duke University Press, 2015, Korean translation from Somyông Press 2018) and a co-editor (with Takashi Fujitani) of Transcolonial Film Co-productions in the Japanese Empire. Her publications have also appeared in The Journal of Asian Studies, Postcolonial Studies, Social Text, Sanghô Hakpo, Hanguk Munhak Yôngu, Modern Fiction Studies, etc.
Koji Toba is a professor of Japanese literature at the School of Letters, Arts and Sciences at Waseda University. Initially, he started his research focusing on Abe Kōbō and his contemporaries, then gradually extended his field of research to the cultural and political movements of the 1950s. He has been researching circle movements, reportage and documentary films, and authors such as Sugiura Minpei, Ishikawa Jun, Kaikō Takeshi, Fuji Masaharu, Komatsu Sakyō, and Ōta Yōko.