Machiko Ooike

Last Updated :2024/04/03

Affiliations, Positions
., Professor
E-mail
ooikehiroshima-u.ac.jp
Self-introduction
My field is African literature and gender, and I am particularly interested in representation of sexuality and HIV/AIDS. Also as a director of the Research Center for Diversity and Inclusion, I organize and conduct researches and projects concerning diversity and inclusion issues. For the details, check our website: (currently in Japanese only) https://www.diversity.hiroshima-u.ac.jp/

Basic Information

Academic Degrees

  • Doctor of Philosophy, Ochanomizu University
  • Master, Ochanomizu University

Educational Activity

  • [Master's Program] Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences : Division of Humanities and Social Sciences : Integrated Arts and Human Sciences Program
  • [Doctoral Program] Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences : Division of Humanities and Social Sciences : Integrated Arts and Human Sciences Program

Research Fields

  • Humanities;Literature;Literature in English

Research Keywords

  • literature
  • Africa
  • gender

Educational Activity

Course in Charge

  1. 2024, Liberal Arts Education Program1, 3Term, Communication IＢ
  2. 2024, Liberal Arts Education Program1, 1Term, Gender and Society
  3. 2024, Liberal Arts Education Program1, Intensive, Introduction to Diversity and Inclusion
  4. 2024, Liberal Arts Education Program1, Intensive, Learning Hiroshima: Intercultural Fieldwork
  5. 2024, Graduate Education (Master's Program) , Intensive, Understanding diversity and Inclusion
  6. 2024, Undergraduate Education, Intensive, Seminar on Diversity and Inclusion
  7. 2024, Undergraduate Education, Second Semester, Gender and Academic Disciplines
  8. 2024, Undergraduate Education, 1Term, Gender Studies I
  9. 2024, Undergraduate Education, 2Term, Gender Studies II
  10. 2024, Graduate Education (Master's Program) , 1Term, Understanding Other Cultures

Research Activities

Academic Papers

  1. ★, Literary Analysis of a Memory Book by a Schoolteacher with HIV in Rural Uganda: Writing about Living with and Dying of HIV, African Studies Review, 66(1), 45-73, 202303
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  2. ★, An analysis of memory books as family historiography: How a Ugandan rural family write their experience of HIV, Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly, 45(3), 271-296, 202303
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  3. ★, A Literary Analysis of Memory Books: Family Stories Written by HIV-Positive Widowed Mothers in Rural Uganda, Matatu: Journal for African Culture and Society, 52(2), 416-442, 2022
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  4. ★, Memory Book as a New Genre of Illness Writing: How a Ugandan Farming Mother Wrote about HIV, English Studies in Africa, 64(1-2), 192-208, 2021
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  5. A New African Youth Novel in the Era of HIV/AIDS: An Analysis of Far and Beyon' by Unity Dow, African Literature Today, 27, 75-84, 2010
  6. Becoming A Femimist Writer: Representation of the Subaltern in Buchi Emehceta's Destination Biafra, African Literature Today, 26(60-70), 2009

Publications such as books

  1. 2022, The Plague Years: Reflecting on Pandemics, Memory Book as a New Genre of Illness Writing: How a Ugandan Farming Mother Wrote about HIV, Routledge, 2022, Scholarly Book, Contributor, Michael Titlestad, Karl van Wyk, Grace A. Musila eds., 9781032286679, 288