Professor Tomiko Yoda- Feb. 18

From Folklore to Märchen: Fashion, Fashion Media, and Proto-Cute Culture in Japan

Professor Tomiko Yoda (Duke University)

Date: 18 February 2009 Time: 6:30 PM
Venue: Russell Square: College Buildings Room: G2
Type of Event: Lecture
Series: JRC Annual Tsuda Lecture

Enquiries
Dr Angus Lockyer (Centre Chair) al21@soas.ac.uk
or Rahima Begum rb41@soas.ac.uk

Speaker
Professor Tomiko Yoda (Duke University)
She specializes in Japanese literature, intellectual history, gender, and feminist studies.

Recent Publications
*T. Yoda (co-edit). Japan After Japan: Social and Cultural Life From the Recessionary 90s to the Present. Duke University Press, Summer, 2006.
*T. Yoda. "First-Person Voice and Citizen-Subject: The Modernity of Ogai's Maihime." Journal of Asian Studies 65:25 (May, May, 2006).
*T. Yoda. "Heian bungaku no joseika to juhasseiki kagaku no kindaisei [Feminization of Heian Literature and the Modernity of Eighteenth-Century Poetics]." Genji kenkyû :10 (2005).
*T. Yoda. Gender And National Literature: Heian Texts and Constructions of Japanese Modernity. Duke University Press, May, 2004.
*T. Yoda. "Kogyaru and the Political Economy of Feminized Consuer Culture." Zappa: the Social Space and Movements of Contemporary Japan (Accepted, forthcoming).

Organised by: Japan Research Centre , Centres and Programmes Office

(Thanks John!)