Keiko
Miyajima
PhD - The Graduate Center, CUNY
MA - The University of Tokyo
BA - Sophia University, Tokyo
Keiko Miyajima holds a Ph.D. from the Graduate Center, CUNY. She has taught Japanese language, literature, culture, film, and manga/anime at Adelphi University, Hofstra University, CUNY Queens College, and CUNY John Jay College. Her current research interest is gender and sexuality in manga and modern literature.
JPN101 - Elementary Japanese 1
JPN102 - Elementary Japanese 2
JPN201 - Intermediate Japanese 1
JPN202 - Intermediate Japanese 2
JPN251 - Manga, Anime, Gender and Japanese Society
East251 - Modern Japanese Literature in Translation (taught at CUNY Queens College)
Modern Language Association
Association for Asian Studies
Northeast Modern Language Association
Publications
“Still Pretty, Ain’t She?”: The Female Gaze and the Queer Monstrous Feminine in Itō Junji’s Tomie” in Horror and Comics (edited by Julia Round) (University of Wales, May 2025)
“’Don Your Armor!’: The Politics of Dress in Higashimura Akiko’s Princess Jellyfish (Kuragehime)” in Women's Voices in Manga: Japanese Cultural and Historical Perspectives (edited by Hiromi Tsuchiya Dollase and Masami Toku) (Springer, January 2025)
“XX, XY, and XXY: Genderqueer Bodies in Hagio Moto’s Science Fiction Manga,” in LGBTQ Comics Studies Reader (UPM, 2022) (https://www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/T/The-LGBTQ-Comics-Studies-Reader)
“Queering the Palate: The Erotics and Politics of Food in Japanese Gourmet Manga,” in Studies in Comics, 11.2, 2021 (https://www.ingentaconnect.com/contentone/intellect/stic/2020/00000011/00000002/art00004?crawler=true&mimetype=application/pdf)
“I–Thou Relationships in Tourism: The Case of Cross-Cultural Interaction between Okinawan Locals and Japanese Tourists.” Co-authored with Henning, Graham and Kawabata, Shinsuke. Tourism Culture & Communication, vol.11, 2011 (https://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/cog/tcc/2011/00000011/00000001/art00004;jsessionid=19r3gi8vmawvh.x-ic-live-02)
“Spatializing the Self: Places of Experience in Henry James, William James, and Kitaro Nishida.” The Journal of the American Literature Society of Japan No. 40, 2004 (https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/englishalsj/2003/2/2003_KJ00009046277/_article/-char/ja/)
“Looking from the Other Side: Gaze, Gender, and The Aspern Papers.” Strata No. 16, 2002 (https://repository.dl.itc.u-tokyo.ac.jp/index.php?action=pages_view_main&active_action=repository_view_main_item_snippet&index_id=6016&pn=1&count=100&order=7&lang=japanese&page_id=28&block_id=31)
Book Translation
『アレキサンダーに学ぶ100戦100勝の成功法則』 (Translation from Are Leaders Born or Made?: The Case of Alexander the Great by Manfred F. R. Kets De Vries) East Press, Tokyo, 2005
CUNY Research Foundation Grant (Text-Based Pedagogy Training Program) (2023)
"Be Better Together” Project: Japanese Studies Curriculum Development and Building Bridges Across CUNY Professional Development Seminar, funded by the Japan Foundation (2020-2021)
CUNY-wide Collaboration and Innovation for the New Digital Era of Japanese Language Education, funded by the Japan Foundation (2020)
PSC/CUNY Adjunct Professional Development Grant (2019)
Adjunct of the Year Award (2012-13), John Jay College