YOSHIDA, Kyoko Professor
| Graduate School | Human and Environmental Studies/Arts and Letters |
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| Undergraduate School | Arts and Letters （Division of Human Sciences） |
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| yoshida.kyoko.2r (_AT_) kyoto-u.ac.jp | |
| Personal Page | Website |
| Research areas | American Literature, Creative Writing, Literary Translation, Baseball Studies |
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| Keywords | Creative Writing, Contemporary American Literature, Contemporary Fiction in English, World Literature, Translation Studies, Cultural Studies of Baseball |
| Themes | My field of expertise is contemporary fiction in English, particularly American literature. I have been interested in the system, history, and pedagogy of the graduate Creative Writing programs, and in how they have been influenced by Long Modernism and have affected post-war American Literature. Recently, I have expanded my research field to the role of English translation as a medium in World Literature. But most of all, I would like to focus on creative writing and literary translation. ultural Representation of Baseball is another area of interest for me. |
| Major publications | Fiction: "Disorientalism" (Vagabond Press, 2013) "Spring Sleepers" (Strangers Press, 2017) Translation: Kiwao Nomura, "Spectacle & Pigsty: Selected Poems of Kiwao Nomura" (with Forrest Gander, OmniDawn, 2011) Ai Nagai, "Women in a Holy Mess" (with Andy Bragen, Yuka Ando, Jiritsu Shobo, 2013) Gozo Yoshimasu, "Alice, Iris, Red Horse: Selected Poems of Yoshimasu Gozo" (with Forrest Gander et al, New Directions, 2016) Academic Writing: "J. M. Coetzee in Context and Theory." Ed. by Elleke Boehmer et al. (Continuum, 2009) |
| Professional societies/Research and synergic activities | MLA AWP ALTA ELSJ ALSJ Japan PEN Mita Bungaku |
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| Background | Kyoko YOSHIDA is the author of the story collections "Disorientalism" and "Spring Sleepers." She writes fiction in English and translates between English and Japanese. Her own translation works include "Spectacle & Pigsty: Selected Poems of Kiwao Nomura" (with poet Forrest Gander; Omnidawn 2011, the winner of the University of Rochester's Best Translated Book Award in 2012), "Alice Iris Red Horse" by Gōzō Yoshimasu (with Forrest Gander, Sawako Nakayasu, Jeffrey Angles, Sayuri Okamoto, Jordan A. Y. Smith, and others; New Directions, 2016), "Like a Butterfly, My Nostalgia" by Masataka Matsuda (with playwright Andy Bragen, 2007), "A Proud Son" by Shu Matsui (with A. Bragen, Ohio Northern University, 2013), "The Circle" by Dave Eggers (Hayakawa Publishing, 2014), "Mildred Pierce" by James M. Cain (Genki Shobō, 2021), and "The Sweetest Fruits" by Monique Truong (Shueisha, 2022). She was a fellow at the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa in 2005 and a fellow at the Literary Arts Program at Brown University in 2006-07. She is the founding director of Kyoto Writers Residency. |
