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Tomiko Yoda
- Associate Professor
- Literature
- 2101 Campus Dr
- Phone: +1 919 684 4310, +1 919 684 4309
- Fax: (919) 681-7871
- Homepage
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Specialties
- Japanese
- Cultural Studies
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Research Summary
Literary Theory, Gender Studies, and Japanese Intellectual History -
Research Description
She specializes in Japanese literature, intellectual history, gender, and feminist studies. -
Education
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- Ph.D. in Japanese,
- Department of Asian Languages,
- Stanford University,
- 1996
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- M.A. in Japanese,
- Department of Asian Languages,
- Stanford University,
- 1991
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- Candidate for Ph.D. in Religion,
- Committee on the Study of Religion,
- Harvard University,
- 1987
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- M.A. in Oriental Philosophy,
- Nagoya University (Nagoya, Japan),
- 1987
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- B.A. in Religion,
- Wesleyan University (Middletown, CT),
- 1983
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Awards, Honors and Distinctions
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- Andrew Mellon Assistant Professorship,
- Duke University,
- January 2000
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Recent Publications
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- Japan After Japan: Social and Cultural Life From the Recessionary 90s to the Present.
- Duke University Press,
- 2006.
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- "First-Person Voice and Citizen-Subject: The Modernity of Ogai's Maihime."
- Journal of Asian Studies
- 65
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- (May, 2006)
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- "Heian bungaku no joseika to juhasseiki kagaku no kindaisei [Feminization of Heian Literature and the Modernity of Eighteenth-Century Poetics]."
- Genji kenkyû
- (2005)
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- Gender And National Literature: Heian Texts and Constructions of Japanese Modernity.
- Duke University Press,
- 2004.
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- "Kogyaru and the Political Economy of Feminized Consuer Culture."
- Zappa: the Social Space and Movements of Contemporary Japan.
- Ed. Sabu Kohso and Yutaka Nagahara.
- Autonomedia,
- Accepted, forthcoming.
Publication Description
The essay analyzes the "feminization" of Japanese consumer society since the 1970s by studying the changing construction of young women and female youth culture.
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