KYOKO MATSUNAGA
Last Updated :2025/02/03
- Affiliations, Positions
- Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Associate Professor
- E-mail
- kyokom
hiroshima-u.ac.jp
Basic Information
Major Professional Backgrounds
- 2009/08, 2010/12, The Pennsylvania State University, Assistant Professor
- 2011/04, 2021/03, Kobe City University of Foreign Studies, Faculty of Foreign Languages, Associate Professor
- 2017/05, 2018/03, University of British Columbia, Department of English Language & Literatures, Visiting Associate Professor
- 2021/04/01, Hiroshima University, Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Associate Professor
Academic Degrees
- Hiroshima University
- University of Nebraska
Educational Activity
- [Bachelor Degree Program] School of Letters : Humane Studies : British, American, and European Languages and Literatures, and Linguistics
- [Master's Program] Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences : Division of Humanities and Social Sciences : Humanities Program
- [Doctoral Program] Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences : Division of Humanities and Social Sciences : Humanities Program
Research Fields
- Humanities;Literature;Literature in English
Educational Activity
Course in Charge
- 2024, Undergraduate Education, 3Term, Introduction to English and American Language and Literature
- 2024, Undergraduate Education, 4Term, Seminar in Contemporary American Literature
- 2024, Undergraduate Education, First Semester, Guidance on Graduation Thesis A
- 2024, Undergraduate Education, Second Semester, Guidance on Graduation Thesis B
- 2024, Undergraduate Education, Second Semester, Graduation Thesis
- 2024, Graduate Education (Doctoral Program) , Second Semester, Special Research Tutorial II (British, American, German, and French Language and Literature, and Liguistics)
- 2024, Graduate Education (Master's Program) , 3Term, Humanities and Social Sciences and Society(English Class) Students enrolled before AY 2023
- 2024, Graduate Education (Master's Program) , 3Term, Humanities and Social Sciences and Society(English Class) Students enrolling in AY 2024 or later
- 2024, Graduate Education (Doctoral Program) , Second Semester, Project Research
- 2024, Graduate Education (Master's Program) , 2Term, Seminar on Contemporary American Literature A
- 2024, Graduate Education (Master's Program) , 2Term, Seminar on Contemporary American Literature B
- 2024, Graduate Education (Master's Program) , 4Term, Seminar on American Literary Theory A
- 2024, Graduate Education (Master's Program) , 4Term, Seminar on American Literary Theory B
- 2024, Graduate Education (Master's Program) , First Semester, Special Lecture on American Literature A
- 2024, Graduate Education (Master's Program) , First Semester, Special Lecture on American Literature B
- 2024, Graduate Education (Master's Program) , Second Semester, Seminar on the Study of American Literature A
- 2024, Graduate Education (Master's Program) , Second Semester, Seminar on the Study of American Literature B
- 2024, Graduate Education (Master's Program) , First Semester, Special Research
- 2024, Graduate Education (Master's Program) , Second Semester, Special Research
- 2024, Graduate Education (Doctoral Program) , First Semester, Special Research
- 2024, Graduate Education (Doctoral Program) , Second Semester, Special Research
Research Activities
Academic Papers
- Indigenous Anti-Nuclear Literary Resistance, Journal of Transnational American Studies, 11(2), 2020
- Leslie Marmon Silko and Nuclear Dissent in the American Southwest, Japanese Journal of American Studies, 2014
- Before and After the Quake: Ruth L. Ozeki's Global Narrative in the Nuclear Age, AALA Journal, 2014
- Resisting and Surviving Apocalypse: Simon J. Ortiz's (Post) Colonial Nuclear Narrative, Southwestern American Literature, 2008
Publications such as books
- 2023, Hiroshima and Peace Studies: From the First Atomic Bombing to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons., Keisuisha, Scholarly Book, Contributor
- 2022, The Encyclopedia of Contemporary American Fiction 1980-2020, Wiley-Blackwell, 2022, 3, Dictionary/Encyclopedia, Contributor, 1119431719
- 2020, Reading Aridity in Western American Literature, Lexington Books, 2020, Scholarly Book, Contributor
- 2017, Ecocriticism in Japan, Lexington Books, Scholarly Book, Contributor
- 2014, Critical Insights: American Multicultural Identity, Salem Press, Scholarly Book, Contributor
- 2009, Sovereignty, Separatism, and Survivance: Ideological Encounters in the Literature of Native North America, Cambridge Scholars Press, Scholarly Book, Contributor
Invited Lecture, Oral Presentation, Poster Presentation
- Transnational Hibakusha Narratives: Stories of Korean Hibakusha, Kyoko Matsunaga, Henry James Society 9th International Conference, 2023/07/09, With Invitation, English, Henry James Society, Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum
- An Intercultural/textual Reading of Militarization and Aridity, Inter/Desert Dialogue #2: Energy and Infrastructure, 2023/06/15, With Invitation, English
- Workshop 3: Radioactive (In)Justice and Transpacific Imagination., Symposium: Ecologies of Justice: Wastelands, Wastewaters, and Human Disposability., 2023/03/24, With Invitation, English
- Indigenous Nuclear Literature in North America: from Uranium Mining to Nuclear Waste, Hiroshima Peace Institute, 6th Lecture Series in English, 2023/02/10, With Invitation, English
- Reading Aridity from a Transpacific Lens: Leslie Marmon Silko and Kyoko Hayashi, Western Literature Association, 2022/10/21, Without Invitation, English
- Indigenous Nuclear Literature, New Nuclear Criticism. Modern Language Association, 2019/01/04, Without Invitation, English
- The Desert Southwest in the Works of Leslie Marmon Silko and Kyoko Hayashi, Western Literature Association, 2019/09/20, Without Invitation, English
- Telling Stories of the Nuclear Midwest: Waste Sites, Environmental Justice, and Activism, Western Literature Association, 2018/10/26, Without Invitation, English
- The Strange Dawn, Uranium Mines, and Resistance in the Work of Simon J. Ortiz, Musqueam 101, 2018/03/14, With Invitation, English
- (Post)Coloniality and Atomic Narratives, ATOMIC Study: Speaker Series by Vancouver Art Gallery, 2018/03/10, With Invitation, English
- Nuclear Issues in Indigenous Literature, Presented with Lee Weju, Resident Fellows Speaker Series, 2018/01/20, With Invitation, English
- Jim Northrup and Nuclear Colonization in what is now called Minnesota, Western Literature Association, 2017/10/26, Without Invitation, English