Keiko
Miyajima

Adjunct Associate Professor (Japanese)
Room number
NB 7.66
Education

PhD  - The Graduate Center, CUNY

MA  - The University of Tokyo

BA  - Sophia University, Tokyo

Bio

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.

JJC Affiliations
Dept. of Modern Languages and Literatures
Courses Taught

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) 

Professional Memberships

Modern Language Association 

Association for Asian Studies 

Northeast Modern Language Association

Scholarly Work

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

 

Honors and Awards

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