Mamiko Suzuki, Ph.D.| Faculty | MCL
Mamiko Suzuki
Lecturer
612 Agnes Arnold Hall
Phone: (713) 743-9695
Email: msuzuki@Central.UH.EDU
Education
M.A./Ph.D., East Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago, 2010.B.A., East Asian Studies and Comparative Literature, Haverford College, 1998.
Research interests
Japanese women鈥檚 literature and education of the Meiji period (1868-1912) in connection to the Empress Sh艒ken鈥檚 court; Meiji poetry and prose; Confucianism in Meiji elite women鈥檚 education.
Book
Gendered Power: Educated Women from the Meiji Empresses鈥� Court. University of Michigan Press, 2019.
Peer Reviewed Journal Articles
鈥淣akajima Sh艒en鈥檚 Sankan no Meika (Noble Flowers of the Mountains, 1889): Co-opting the Politics of Gendered Narration鈥� Japanese Language and Literature 49.2 (2015) , American Association of Teachers of Japanese. (2015)
"Shimoda's Program for Japanese and Chinese Women's Education." CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture 15.2 (2013).
鈥淲omen鈥檚 Writing or a Masculine Perspective: Genders of Narration in Sh艒en Nikki,鈥� U.S.-Japan Women鈥檚 Journal, Riverside, Calif. : J艒sai University Center for Inter-Cultural Studies and Education and the Purdue University Dept. of History. No. 35: 6-25. 2008.
Published Translations
Japanese Prefaces (1987, 1990) for Mary Wollstonecraft鈥檚 works in E.H. Botting, ed., Portraits of Wollstonecraft Portraits of Wollstonecraft (Bloomsbury, Forthcoming).
鈥淜it艒,鈥� [Translation. 鈥淭he Prayer鈥漖 by Sata Ineko, in For Dignity, Justice, and Revolution: An Anthology of Japanese Proletarian Literature. University of Chicago Press, Norma Field and Heather Bowen-Struyk, eds. (2016)
鈥淜indai sh艒setsu no gensetsu josh艒. 鈥� [Translation. 鈥淚ntroduction to the Discourse of the Modern Novel: 鈥楾ime鈥� in the Novel and Literary Language or, A Reading of Kamei Hideo鈥檚 Transformations of Sensibility, in Monogatari bungaku no gensetsu鈥漖 by Mitani Kuniaki was published in Michael K. Bourdaghs, ed. Linguistic Turn in Contemporary Japanese Literary Studies: Textuality, Language, Politics. Ann Arbor Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan. 97-116. (2010)
鈥淵o ga hansei no zange鈥� [Translation. Midlife Confessions] by Futabatei Shimei. Published in Tetsuo Najita, ed., Japan鈥檚 Modernity: A Reader. Select Papers, Center for East Asian Studies, U of Chicago, 11: 81-90. (2002)
Selected Papers and Lectures
Conference Paper, 鈥淕ender Dynamics and Discourses of the Nation-State in Late Imperial Trans-Asian Contexts,鈥� at the Modern Languages Association, Philadelphia, PA. January 5, 2017.
Invited Lecture, 鈥淯npacking National Identity through Japanese Food Culture,鈥� Utah State University, Logan, UT, October 28, 2016.
Conference Paper, "Kanshi and Kanbungaku as Women鈥檚 Education in 1880s and 1890s Japan," at the Association for Asian Studies, Seattle, WA. April 1, 2016.
Conference Paper, 鈥淭eaching Girls to Be Women: Shimoda Utako鈥檚 Genji Monogatari 碍艒驳颈 and Meiji Women鈥檚 Education,鈥� Association for Asian Studies, Chicago, IL. March 28, 2015.
Conference Paper, 鈥淢eiji Kanshi and Activist Literata Kishida Toshiko (Nakajima Sh艒en),鈥滱ssociation for Asian Studies Conference, Philadelphia, PA. March 30, 2014.