PARTICIPANTS
Julia Hansell CLARK
Julia Hansell Clark is a PhD candidate in the Department of Asian Languages & Cultures at UCLA. She is currently working on her doctoral dissertation project, “Reclaiming Landscape: Place and Personhood in the Literature of Ikaino,” which examines the material and figurative space of Ikaino, an ethnically Korean neighborhood in Osaka, in the 1950s-1980s as a point of intersection of issues of gender, class, and ethnicity.
Jonathan GLADE
Jonathan Glade is a Lecturer in Japanese Studies at the University of Melbourne. His research interests include modern Korean and Japanese literature, decolonization, Zainichi Koreans, and the post–World War II occupation of Japan and southern Korea.
Andre HAAG
Andre Haag is an Assistant Professor of modern Japanese literature at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. His work has appeared in Cross-Currents, Review of Japanese Cultures and Society, and other venues.
Andrew HARDING
Andrew Harding is a Visiting Lecturer in Japanese Studies and Postdoctoral Global Racial Justice Fellow at Cornell University, where he also received his PhD this summer. His thesis, titled “The Figure of 'Zainichi': Korean Resident Fiction and Postimperial Subjectivity in Japan,” examines the ways in which “Zainichi” has been assembled as a rhetorical figure in postwar Japan, and how it has acted as an interface of sorts in negotiating continuities and discontinuities between the colonial and postcolonial eras.
Nathaniel HENEGHAN
Nathaniel Heneghan is an independent scholar who has taught Japanese literature and culture at Oberlin College, Wesleyan University, and other institutions. His work focuses on literary and cinematic representation of the Korean minority in Japan (Zainichi) from post-War to present. He is currently at work on a manuscript devoted to this subject, tentatively titled, Floating Signifiers: Tracing Zainichi Korean Identity in Postcolonial Literature and Visual Media.
So Hye KIM
So Hye Kim is a research professor at the International Research Center for Korean Languages and Culture at Korea University. She received her Ph.D. in East Asian Languages and Civilizations from the University of Chicago in 2019 and taught courses on Korean cinema, culture, and literature at Northwestern University as Weinberg Postdoctoral Fellow from 2019 until 2021. Her research interests center on Korean and East Asian films of diaspora, as well as transnational East Asian cinema and independent film movements. Her manuscript in progress entitled Beyond Longing and Belonging: The Cinematic Interplay between the Nation and its Diaspora in South Korea, locates Korean diaspora films within the history of East Asian cultural production during the long twentieth century and contextualizes the cinematic mobility of Korean diaspora in the post-Cold War era.
David KROLIKOSKI
David Krolikoski is an Assistant Professor of Korean literature at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. His scholarship has appeared in Japanese Language and Literature and Azalea: Journal of Korean Literature & Culture, among other venues. He is currently preparing a book manuscript, tentatively titled Lyrical Translation: The Creation of Modern Poetry Colonial Korea, for publication.
Nayoung Aimee KWON
Nayoung Aimee Kwon is an Associate Professor at Duke University in Asian & Middle Eastern Studies, Cinematic Arts, and Gender Studies. She is the founding director of Duke's Asian American & Diaspora Studies Program. Select publications include Theorizing Colonial Cinema and Intimate Empire.
Nicholas LAMBRECHT
Nicholas Lambrecht is an Assistant Professor in the Osaka University Graduate School of Letters, where he teaches courses on Japanese literature, culture, and society in the Global Japanese Studies Program. As part of a joint appointment at the Osaka University Global Japanese Studies Education and Research Incubator (GJS-ERI), he serves as a representative for the Incubator’s project on developing an international collaborative network for research on Zainichi Korean literature. His research focuses on modern Japanese literature with a particular emphasis on works depicting postwar repatriation to Japan and its aftermath.
Ryan MORAN
Ryan Moran is Assistant Professor of Japanese history at the University of Utah. His work has appeared in Japan Forum and positions: asia critique.
David ROH
David Roh is Associate Professor of English at the University of Utah. His publications include Minor Transpacific and Illegal Literature.
Catherine RYU
Catherine Ryu is Associate Professor of Japanese literature & culture and director of the Japanese Studies Program at Michigan State University. She received her PhD at the University of Michigan, and her teaching and research interests include Classical Japanese, Heian women’s narratives, Japanese culture and literature, Korean literature, Zainichi literature, game studies, translation studies, children’s literature, digital humanities, and global studies.
SAKASAI Akito
Sakasai Akito is Associate Professor in the Department of Language and Information Sciences at the University of Tokyo. His first monograph, “Yakeato” no Sengo Kukanron (Charred Ruins—A Discussion of Postwar Spaces, 2018), deals with the representation of urban space in Japan under the United States’ occupation after its defeat in World War II.
SONG Hyewon
Song Hyewon is a trilingual scholar of literature by Koreans in Japan. She is the author of A Literary History of Zainichi Koreans: Revealing the Polyphony of Silent Voices, both in Japanese (Iwanami, 2014) and in Korean self-translation (Somyong, 2019). She is also the editor of numerous anthologies related to the Korean diaspora in Japan, enabling new research on Zainichi women's literature, Korean-language writing in Japan, and other previously neglected materials.
Cindi TEXTOR
Cindi Textor is Assitant Professor in the Department of World Languages and Cultures at the University of Utah. She has published in positions: asia critique, The Journal of Korean Studies, and other venues. Her book manuscript in progress is titled Anatomies of Incoherence: Zainichi Literature and the Intersectional Politics of Speech.
TOBA Koji
Koji Toba is a Professor in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Waseda University. Initially, he started his research focusing on Abe Kobo and his contemporaries, then gradually extended his field of research to the cultural and political movements of the 1950s.
UNODA Shoya
Shoya Unoda is a Professor in the Graduate School of Letters at Osaka University, specializing in Japanese intellectual history.
WATANABE Naoki
Naoki Watanabe is Professor of Korean Language and Culture at Musashi University. He is the author of numerous articles in Korean and Japanese on the literature, culture, and intellectual history of colonial Korea.
Nobuko YAMASAKI
Nobuko Yamasaki is an Assistant Professor of Japanese at Lehigh University in Modern Languages & Literatures, as well as Women, Gender & Sexuality Studies. She is the author of Prostitutes, Hostesses, and Actresses at the Edge of the Japanese Empire (2021).
Christina YI
Christina Yi is Associate Professor of Modern Japanese Literature at the University of British Columbia. She is the author of Colonizing Language: Cultural Production and Language Politics in Modern Japan and Korea. Her current research project investigates the discursive formation and theoretical limits of “repatriation literature” (hikiage bungaku) through an examination of fiction, essays, and memoirs on the subject of repatriation to Japan, by both Japanese and non-Japanese writers.