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Dr. Masayo Kaneko
Assistant Professor of Japanese
 
Joined MSU in 2009
 
Education
 
Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania, East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Japanese Studies
M.A. Indiana University, Linguistics
B.A. Hiroshima University, English Literature and English Education
 
 
Areas of Interest
 
Modern and contemporary Japanese literature, Gender and religion in medieval Japan (gender, Buddhism, and representation; Nō Theater and Buddhism), Literary theories (Gender Studies), and Popular Culture
 
 
Recent Works
 
Publications
 
Sexuality and Spirituality: Subjectivity and Resistance in the Works of Setouchi Jakuchō (monograph in progress).
 
"Setouchi Jakuchō: Female Subjectivity in the Exploration of 'Self', Sexuality, and Spirituality," The Outsider Within: Ten Essays on Japanese Women Writers, edited by T. Kuribayashi and M. Terasawa, University Press of America (May, 2002), pp. 63-88.
 
Japanese Women & Buddhism Project, Columbia University, New York. Translated and adapted an article, "State Buddhism and Court Buddhism: The Role of Court Women in Buddhist Development from the 17th to 19th Century" by Hongo Masatsugu, for EnGendering Faith: Women and Buddhism in Premodern Japan, edited by Barbara Ruch, Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan Press (November, 2002), pp. 41-61.
 
 
Professional Activities/Presentations
 
"The Tale of Genji and Modern Translation," paper at Asian Studies Development Program (March 2009).
 
"Setouchi Jakuchō and The Tale of Genji at the Millennium," paper at Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference of Association for Asian Studies (October 2008).
 
Guest Speaker, "The 'Fragmented' in Short Stories by Kawabata Yasunari and Kurahashi Yumiko," University of Pennsylvania (April, 2007)
 
"Setouchi Jakuchō and The Tale of Genji at the Millennium," paper at Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference of Association for Asian Studies (October 2008).
 
Guest Speaker, "Setouchi Jakuchō and The Tale of Genji," University of Pennsylvania (November, 2006)
 
Guest Speaker, "Women in Japanese Society," University of Pennsylvania (April, 2006)
 
 
  Masayo Kaneko
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Murray State University
Murray, Kentucky 42071

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